What is this ...?
01-19-2011, 06:48 AM
#1
It's my pot and I'll stir it if I want to. If you're not careful, I'll stir your's as well!
Thread Starter
What is this ...?
The last few days when I open certain pages on my computer a small purpleish colored window pops up near the top RH of my screen. Inside is Double click, Google AdSense and Google Analytics. To my knowledge I never asked for this junk and want to get rid of it, but can't. Checked on the internet and find that others are having the same problem I am having. Followed the advice given to get eliminate these, but nothing appears to work.
Any suggestions as to how to dump this unwanted garbage?
Any suggestions as to how to dump this unwanted garbage?
01-19-2011, 07:05 AM
#2
Administrator/Jarhead
What web browser are you using?
You probably downloaded something you needed, and did not notice that there were other applications in it... you need to find where they are installed on your browser and delete them.
You probably downloaded something you needed, and did not notice that there were other applications in it... you need to find where they are installed on your browser and delete them.
01-19-2011, 07:35 AM
#5
It's my pot and I'll stir it if I want to. If you're not careful, I'll stir your's as well!
Thread Starter
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01-19-2011, 09:16 AM
#8
It's my pot and I'll stir it if I want to. If you're not careful, I'll stir your's as well!
Thread Starter
On edit.
Ran it and it found a few small items, but now there are 10 or 12 items that pop up in the purpleish box every now and then.
Checked all and the Firefox addons and everything looks of. Deleted a few .
This is getting very annoying.
01-19-2011, 08:16 PM
#9
It's my pot and I'll stir it if I want to. If you're not careful, I'll stir your's as well!
Thread Starter
Just noticed at the bottom RH of my screen there is a new icon with the words 2 trackers next to it. When I hover the mouse over it I get the message that says " 2 trackers found on this page, 0 blocked". This is on DTR
Played around with some other sites and discovered that the icon is resident and the amount of trackers changes. There is zero for my email and up to 5 trackers on another site.
Now what and how do I get rid of this?
My AVG shows nothing and my registry cleaner came up clean.
Played around with some other sites and discovered that the icon is resident and the amount of trackers changes. There is zero for my email and up to 5 trackers on another site.
Now what and how do I get rid of this?
My AVG shows nothing and my registry cleaner came up clean.
01-19-2011, 08:25 PM
#11
It's my pot and I'll stir it if I want to. If you're not careful, I'll stir your's as well!
Thread Starter
Already done that. My history automatically gets deleted on every shutdown.
Also cleared my cache.
Also cleared my cache.
01-19-2011, 08:28 PM
#12
Muted one day, Banned the next....... Ah the life of a DTR 1%'er
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01-19-2011, 08:36 PM
#13
It's my pot and I'll stir it if I want to. If you're not careful, I'll stir your's as well!
Thread Starter
Thanks anyway. (but not sure what I am thanking you for)
On one site I visited, next to the tracking icon another icon appeared and when I right clicked on it the words "authenticated by thante consulting pty ltd" appeared.
01-19-2011, 08:54 PM
#15
Administrator
I'm running Firefox too and I've noticed it has quite a few annoying little quirks. I get a popup everytime I initially sign on. Have no idea what it is or how to get rid of it so I just click ok and then the page loads. My netbook never did this until today when Firefox did an upgrade and now the netbook is the same as this computer.