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In the last few days while I've been surfing around the boards, I've faced this problem several times. While reading new posts, when I reach the last one, a banner ad pops out of nowhere (i.e. not in a seperate window) and overlaps the final post. I'm not sure with IE, but the problem occurs when browsing with Opera 7.23. I have no idea what's wrong, but the problem is nonetheless very annoying - and even moreso if this forces me towards IE, which keeps deleting my cookies constantly. :grumpy:

It would be greatly appreciated if the bug was killed.

edit: Look at the attachment, and you'll see what I mean.
 
I've not seen that pop up at all, are you certain its GTPlanet? Give CNN.com a try and see if the same thing happens.

If you've ruled it down to gtplanet, Jordan will have to check in on that.

Also, you may want to give ad-aware a run on your machien to see if perhaps spyware has gotten in by chance.

AO
 
I seriously doubt that is coming from GTP, as long as you are logged in you should not see pop-ups. Also, that ad isn't in a window of it's own - it most likely would be if it were a pop-up spawned by the site. Try running AdAware, as Alex suggested and see if it turns up anything.
 
I've run Ad-aware and got 1006 entries for anything adware-related, none of them being spyware (plenty of Data Miners though). Removing some of these results in some programs returning error messages on startup, so I had to leave them in.

Second, the problem only seems to be in Opera. I'm running an unregistered version of Opera (i.e. the banner-version) and I am wondering if it has to do with this. The bugger-ads only appear here though, and Opera is set to give me ads related to what I'm surfing for (i.e. Gran Turismo related ads whenever on GTP). However, the bugger-ad is as far away from Gran Turismo related as it can get, and it only appears here. Not CNN.com, not Dagbladet.no, not LUGNET.com, only here.

BTW, also noticed the banner appears when I scroll past the last post, maybe I should try to not do that anymore, as a temporary solution. Other than that, I myself have no idea what's wrong.
 
Well, I wish I could tell you more, but I really do think this is an Opera issue. Have you even tried it with other browsers? Has anyone else using Opera noticed this problem?
 
Freddie, I'd like to suggest you use Mozilla Firefox 0.9 instead of Opera. It has numerous features that you will love.

Google Search, Pop-up blocker, and tons of more features. Give it a shot, it more likely may help with your popup problem. :)
 
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Freddie, I'd like to suggest you use Mozilla Firefox 0.9 instead of Opera. It has numerous features that you will love.

Google Search, Pop-up blocker, and tons of more features. Give it a shot, it more likely may help with your popup problem. :)
A severe security hole has been found in Firefox 0.9 :indiff: that allows arbitrary (possible malicious) code to be executed on your machine by a page in the browser. I would suggest using the latest nightly build from http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/ , which would currently be 0.9.1+ (in other words, 1.0 beta). Also, this nightly build has a built-in whitelist for .xpi install sites, to prevent malware (adware/spyware) installation.
 
The ad doesn't appear in IE, but instead IE barfs up Gator ads (i know, i know, adware). Firefox sounds interesting though, gonna try it out.
 
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A severe security hole has been found in Firefox 0.9 :indiff: that allows arbitrary (possible malicious) code to be executed on your machine by a page in the browser. I would suggest using the latest nightly build from http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/ , which would currently be 0.9.1+ (in other words, 1.0 beta). Also, this nightly build has a built-in whitelist for .xpi install sites, to prevent malware (adware/spyware) installation.

If you read the warning about this so called exploit that you described, it's not a problem with Firefox. It's a problem with Windows. As said in the announcement, the flaw was only for Windows users, not Mac, not Linux. It is the same exploit that was found through IE, and is not a browser problem, but the fact that although Microsoft knew about the exploit problem with shell.dll for over a year, they havn't bothered fixing it. Supposidly, it's supposed to be patched with SP2. Why they couldn't have it patch itself with Windows Update, nobody knows....

And I believe you mean blacklist instead of whitelist. Whitelists are lists of known good sites, meaning confirmed safe ones. Blacklists are lists that block ports, programs, sites, etc. If you blacklist an email account, you won't get email from that user's email address until you take it off the list. This is also known commonly as blocking.
 
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