[WEB4LIB] Popups

[Daniel Messer]

	I've had this happen before on a slower computer and figured that it had
something to do with the speed of the processor and lack of RAM. Maybe it's a
lag time in a browser pop up or something. In other words, you hit the site
with the pop up, close the main browser and the pop up and reopen the main
browser. While this is happening the hard disk is happily churning away and
loading up the next pop up that the first pop us was set to launch upon being
closed, at least that's my theory. 
	But then again, I've gotten some pretty questionable pop ups on Yahoo
regardless. As for what to do, you might look into installing a pop up killing
programme or an anti advertisement programme like Ad-Aware. Or, my personal
favourite is to use Mozilla 1.0. It has an option that you can set to not
launch any pop ups which were not specifically requested by a mouse click.
Very nice. :)

Dan 

Michelle Rempel <mrempel at peacelibrarysystem.ab.ca> said:

> I have a library that is having a problem with pornographic pop up 
> windows.  The problem is that it is happening even after the browser is 
> closed and re-opened and the user is at a "tame" site.  While I was on the 
> phone with them, a user was at Yahoo and a questionable window popped 
> up.  I had her go through the installed software and nothing seems out of 
> the ordinary.  Has anyone had this happen?  I'm a distance away from them 
> so any troubleshooting is by phone.
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
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> Michelle Rempel
> Peace Library System
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