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Offline Crantor

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I win again!!!!!
« on: February 04, 2010, 14:07:25 »
I keep seeing an advertising pop-up with a link to some lottery site.  Keeps telling me it's not  a joke and that I win. 

Anyone seeing this in the advertising windows?  Anyone else winning?   ;D

I'm guessing it might be an advertiser on the site?
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Re: I win again!!!!!
« Reply #1 on: February 04, 2010, 14:11:48 »
If you become a Milnet subscriber, you won't see those pop ups ;)

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Re: I win again!!!!!
« Reply #2 on: February 04, 2010, 14:53:46 »
Quote from: recceguy on February 04, 2010, 14:11:48
If you become a Milnet subscriber, you won't see those pop ups ;)


Maybe you should try being more direct RG. >:D
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Re: I win again!!!!!
« Reply #3 on: February 04, 2010, 19:41:30 »
I've yet to see any pop-up advertising here at all.

Are you sure you aren't infected with adware?

Download Ad-Aware Free and Spybot Search & Destroy and run those one at a time.
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Re: I win again!!!!!
« Reply #4 on: February 04, 2010, 19:43:36 »
I don't think he means "pop-up" as in what most would call a 'pop up'.

I think he meant it the same way as 'showed up'.
Mike said he would close down before allowing pop ups.
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Re: I win again!!!!!
« Reply #5 on: February 04, 2010, 20:09:57 »
What leads me to believe that the OP has adware is that I've yet to see any lottery advertising here, even in the Google ads.  It sounds like adware.
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Re: I win again!!!!!
« Reply #6 on: February 05, 2010, 09:37:38 »
Quote from: recceguy on February 04, 2010, 14:11:48
If you become a Milnet subscriber, you won't see those pop ups ;)

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But then i wouldn't be able to win  ;)
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Re: I win again!!!!!
« Reply #7 on: February 07, 2010, 10:51:29 »
Crantor,

Thanks for the report. freelotto is not a direct sponsor of the site... The ads are coming either as a syndication through Google Adsense or the ad hosting program. I'm trying to stomp these ads out as they're annoying and frankly degrading. I'm trying to track them down as we speak...
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Re: I win again!!!!!
« Reply #8 on: February 07, 2010, 11:18:00 »
OK, I think I got it for real this time. It's insidious how easy it is for advertisers to slip in on your campaigns if you're not careful.

Please let me know if you see anything like this again...

...and sorry for taking away your chance at winning the lotto. ;)
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Re: I win again!!!!!
« Reply #9 on: February 08, 2010, 08:59:23 »
If you think you've won the lotto, I have some nice tanks you can buy.  They came as a bonus with the USD 10 000 000 000 000 000 I got from some deposed prince in Nigeria.
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