A couple of things that may or may not be interesting

I've recently joined a "Battle of the Planets" Group over on Yahoo. Unlike another "Gatchaman" Group on there, this one is active and the Mods are on top of things. I'm going to lurk for awhile before saying anything, like about my love for Spectra Soldiers (seriously, they're my favorite characters).

In other news - I have a very annoying pop-up problem going on for 2 weeks now. I thought originally somebody stuck this damn thing on my nephew's site, but no. It comes up when there's a bunch of pop-ups on a site - I'm not sure exactly how it works, guess piggy-back riding - for awhile it was the "Nude Celeb Revue", a ad that would cover-up my toolbar and no way to close it except to manualy turn-off the machine. Well, after dumping out cookies, updating patches, running both "Ad-aware" and my virus protection, having a "TrendMicro" do a free PC scan, disc-cleanup, double checking the History to make sure that was dumped out, I still sometimes get the stupid thing. Right now, got a "blank" window (with no way to shrink or close, that covered my toolbar) while on a site with pop-ups. From past experiences, I can't always close a pop-up while it's downloading or my system freezes-up so I shrink some down and then close them. This pain in the arse pop-up seems to be following a certain pattern -

1)When it appears, it's on sites and or something that will have pop-ups of some sort.

2)I noticed when I closed the first pop-up ad (on my nephew's site over on AngelFire) that while trying to shrink and close the following ones, I got the pop-up window from hell.

3)There is a "pause" before the PUWFH (pop-up window from hell) appears - it's the sort of pause that means another pop-up is coming up - then the toolbar "disappears". If I get light blue, it's the "Nude Celeb Revue" ad, white it's a blank window.

4)After manualy turning off the computer and logging back on, went back to the same site. This time, I didn't close the first pop-up ad and didn't get the other pop-ups - interesting. In the past (before all this PUWFH jazz), would whether or not closing the first pop-up, the other ones would appear.

5)Noticed a conection to my firewall getting pinged and that damn "Nude Celeb Revue" showing up. Also after cleaning my system, no porn ad in the PUWFH.


My conclusion is - I highly doubt my system is the problem since I make every effort to take care of it and protect myself. So my guess is that somebody out there on the Net has created a "worm" that's attracted to pop-ups. Why else would I get a porn ad when I haven't been to any adult sites? Why else would I get a blank PUWFH after dumping out my temp files and cookies? I think this worm piggy-backs on legit pop-ups, causes a porn ad and leaves a cookie. But get rid of the cookie and or do something that interupts the process, go on a site with a bunch of pop-ups and do something to trigger the worm, get only half the worm (the blank PUWFH).

Or I could be completely wrong *shrugs*

A couple of things that may or may not be interesting

I've recently joined a "Battle of the Planets" Group over on Yahoo. Unlike another "Gatchaman" Group on there, this one is active and the Mods are on top of things. I'm going to lurk for awhile before saying anything, like about my love for Spectra Soldiers (seriously, they're my favorite characters).

In other news - I have a very annoying pop-up problem going on for 2 weeks now. I thought originally somebody stuck this damn thing on my nephew's site, but no. It comes up when there's a bunch of pop-ups on a site - I'm not sure exactly how it works, guess piggy-back riding - for awhile it was the "Nude Celeb Revue", a ad that would cover-up my toolbar and no way to close it except to manualy turn-off the machine. Well, after dumping out cookies, updating patches, running both "Ad-aware" and my virus protection, having a "TrendMicro" do a free PC scan, disc-cleanup, double checking the History to make sure that was dumped out, I still sometimes get the stupid thing. Right now, got a "blank" window (with no way to shrink or close, that covered my toolbar) while on a site with pop-ups. From past experiences, I can't always close a pop-up while it's downloading or my system freezes-up so I shrink some down and then close them. This pain in the arse pop-up seems to be following a certain pattern -

1)When it appears, it's on sites and or something that will have pop-ups of some sort.

2)I noticed when I closed the first pop-up ad (on my nephew's site over on AngelFire) that while trying to shrink and close the following ones, I got the pop-up window from hell.

3)There is a "pause" before the PUWFH (pop-up window from hell) appears - it's the sort of pause that means another pop-up is coming up - then the toolbar "disappears". If I get light blue, it's the "Nude Celeb Revue" ad, white it's a blank window.

4)After manualy turning off the computer and logging back on, went back to the same site. This time, I didn't close the first pop-up ad and didn't get the other pop-ups - interesting. In the past (before all this PUWFH jazz), would whether or not closing the first pop-up, the other ones would appear.

5)Noticed a conection to my firewall getting pinged and that damn "Nude Celeb Revue" showing up. Also after cleaning my system, no porn ad in the PUWFH.


My conclusion is - I highly doubt my system is the problem since I make every effort to take care of it and protect myself. So my guess is that somebody out there on the Net has created a "worm" that's attracted to pop-ups. Why else would I get a porn ad when I haven't been to any adult sites? Why else would I get a blank PUWFH after dumping out my temp files and cookies? I think this worm piggy-backs on legit pop-ups, causes a porn ad and leaves a cookie. But get rid of the cookie and or do something that interupts the process, go on a site with a bunch of pop-ups and do something to trigger the worm, get only half the worm (the blank PUWFH).

Or I could be completely wrong *shrugs*

Give it up "Willard"!!!

Where ever I turn, I encounter an ad of some sort for that movie - this wouldn't be a bad thing except it looks anything but good.

Hollywood, has once again succumbed to laziness - "Why think up something new and hurt ourselves straining our unsed flabby brains when we can remake a past movie and stuff it full of CGI effects?"

From what I've seen so far in the TV comercials, the effects are bad - they look cheap in some scenes and way overdone in others. Crispan Glover's mugging doesn't help any either.

The original "Willard" used real rats that acted like real rats. There wasn't any over-the-top rat scenes like what the new "Willard" has in it (Glover standing up and being covered in a pile of painfully obivious badly done CGI created rats - orginal "Willard" the a large number of real rats running around close to and in and out of the feet of Bruce Davidson).

Bruce Davidson made Willard a likeable character - here was a basically nice guy getting unfairly dumped on by pretty much everybody and not having any real way of standing up for himself, until he happened to take pity on a rat he was supposed to drown (Mom order him to do something about the rats in the house so Willard made-up a water trap) and winds-up making friends with the rodents who stuck with him until he decided to get rid of them in a nasty way (why he just didn't explain things to them and ask to part ways with him - I bet the rats would have done it).

Crispen Glover - sorry, this guy is not anyway sympathic. Everytime I see his face in the Willard ads, want to punch him once, twice, several times.

Of course, it'll probably be #1 at the box-office on its opening weekend.

Give it up "Willard"!!!

Where ever I turn, I encounter an ad of some sort for that movie - this wouldn't be a bad thing except it looks anything but good.

Hollywood, has once again succumbed to laziness - "Why think up something new and hurt ourselves straining our unsed flabby brains when we can remake a past movie and stuff it full of CGI effects?"

From what I've seen so far in the TV comercials, the effects are bad - they look cheap in some scenes and way overdone in others. Crispan Glover's mugging doesn't help any either.

The original "Willard" used real rats that acted like real rats. There wasn't any over-the-top rat scenes like what the new "Willard" has in it (Glover standing up and being covered in a pile of painfully obivious badly done CGI created rats - orginal "Willard" the a large number of real rats running around close to and in and out of the feet of Bruce Davidson).

Bruce Davidson made Willard a likeable character - here was a basically nice guy getting unfairly dumped on by pretty much everybody and not having any real way of standing up for himself, until he happened to take pity on a rat he was supposed to drown (Mom order him to do something about the rats in the house so Willard made-up a water trap) and winds-up making friends with the rodents who stuck with him until he decided to get rid of them in a nasty way (why he just didn't explain things to them and ask to part ways with him - I bet the rats would have done it).

Crispen Glover - sorry, this guy is not anyway sympathic. Everytime I see his face in the Willard ads, want to punch him once, twice, several times.

Of course, it'll probably be #1 at the box-office on its opening weekend.

Z and the parasite

May have found the cuase of my "unexpected pop-up" problem - it seems that on my Internet Explorer, there was "I-Lookup" a sneakly little creature that likes to become the default page of Explorer and will stick a bunch of stuff onto the "Favorites" list.

Since I use CompuServe, instead of Explorer (I've got both on my system) had no idea what was going on. How I picked up that damn default/toolbar creature on my Explorer since the only time I use it is to check for Windows 98 critical updates - go figure *shrugs*. Maybe it was from looking at an adult site in the past - for the record, once in a great while I get bored and look - but it hasen't been recently.

Anyway, it makes sense - while I don't use Explorer, a site with pop-ups can and does trigger Mircosoft Explorer windows to open with the damn ads in them. Since I was getting "Nude Celeb Revue", makes again sense that I maybe pick-uped a little something extra via one of those adult sites. Past experience, I had once a damn full-coverage adult ad that pop-uped after exiting a adult site another time a explosion of pop-ups. A number of those sites will have pop-ups galore happen when you leave them.

Which is why I don't go surfing around following adult links anymore. Was going thru my "Favorites" list (CompuServe) and getting rid of stuff, there was a few adult links on there and I think I re-looked at them - it's hard to remember.

Talk about paying for your pleasure - LOL!!!

Anyway, I got rid of the I-Look and it's little list of extras, so hopefully no more PUWFH (pop-up window from hell).

Z and the parasite

May have found the cuase of my "unexpected pop-up" problem - it seems that on my Internet Explorer, there was "I-Lookup" a sneakly little creature that likes to become the default page of Explorer and will stick a bunch of stuff onto the "Favorites" list.

Since I use CompuServe, instead of Explorer (I've got both on my system) had no idea what was going on. How I picked up that damn default/toolbar creature on my Explorer since the only time I use it is to check for Windows 98 critical updates - go figure *shrugs*. Maybe it was from looking at an adult site in the past - for the record, once in a great while I get bored and look - but it hasen't been recently.

Anyway, it makes sense - while I don't use Explorer, a site with pop-ups can and does trigger Mircosoft Explorer windows to open with the damn ads in them. Since I was getting "Nude Celeb Revue", makes again sense that I maybe pick-uped a little something extra via one of those adult sites. Past experience, I had once a damn full-coverage adult ad that pop-uped after exiting a adult site another time a explosion of pop-ups. A number of those sites will have pop-ups galore happen when you leave them.

Which is why I don't go surfing around following adult links anymore. Was going thru my "Favorites" list (CompuServe) and getting rid of stuff, there was a few adult links on there and I think I re-looked at them - it's hard to remember.

Talk about paying for your pleasure - LOL!!!

Anyway, I got rid of the I-Look and it's little list of extras, so hopefully no more PUWFH (pop-up window from hell).