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Oh NO. I was doing a google search for something that has nothing to do with sex, and I clicked on a link that seemed pertinent to my search, and after I clicked on it, the URL changed to something about a SNATCH and all these sex ads popped up, and now they are everywhere! They just keep appearing. How to stop it?
I'm sorry if a thread answering a question like this already exists, but the crotches are everywhere and I am in panic mode.

― kirsten (kirsten), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 19:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I just realized I made the title of this thread a bit suspicious, and also that it kind of seems like one of the threads random trolly people start. I'm serious, though! Oh, please help. Please.

― kirsten (kirsten), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 19:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Start by hitting CONTROL + ALT + DELETE, highlight iexplorer.exe (and any other instances), and click "end process."

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 19:49 (twenty-one years ago)

the crotches are everywhere and I am in panic mode

I thank you for the existence of this sentence.

(In cases like this, I've just closed down the browser entirely. Alternately what Mike said.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

This assumes you've got a windows machine and MS Explorer, of course.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Kill every browser window you can see in the taskbar; one of them is generating the Javascript that's popping up the other windows. If that doesn't work, reboot.

Alternately, get your boss and say "I let [name of co-worker you hate] use my computer during lunch and now THESE keep popping up all over!"

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Then I'd update Windows (again, assuming you have Windows), and run some anti-scumware software.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 19:51 (twenty-one years ago)

No, I have an iBook and Safari. I think I will just try rebooting and see what happens. Would emptying my Caches file maybe help?

― kirsten (kirsten), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 19:51 (twenty-one years ago)

This assumes you've got a windows machine and MS Explorer, of course.

That's a pretty safe assumption. What the sex ad people are really trying to tell you is to update your computer and use Firefox. They're right about that.

― slightly more subdued (kenan), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 19:52 (twenty-one years ago)

just quit safari

― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 19:56 (twenty-one years ago)

In Safari, go to the menu and tell it to "Block Pop-up windows." That should stop more from coming into existence. You can just quit the app (apple-Q on the keyboard, "Quit" from the main menu) and it'll close too.

― mike h. (mike h.), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 19:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, set the block. Your life will be much the happier.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 19:57 (twenty-one years ago)

no, the cache has nothing to do with it. You can go back to the Finder by clicking on the desktop or alt-tabbing back to the blue smiley mac OS face, and then use the Force Quit command from whichever menu that is.
then:

http://getfirefox.com

install the AdBlock extension

AdBlock any and all domains that do that to you in the future, for example, filter like this:

http://*.doubleclick.net/
http://*.casalemedia.net/

and so forth! It is good times.

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 24 May 2005 19:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I dunno. Some day you may miss all those crotches popping up.

xpost

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 19:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I just restarted and did that pop-up block thing. A full minute without vag shots! Oh, this is nice. Thank you all.

― kirsten (kirsten), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 19:59 (twenty-one years ago)

If you prefer to stick with Safari, the PithHelmet extension does the same adblock thing Tom mentions. And very good times it is.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 20:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Casalemedia.net? Any relation to Bob and Jerry Casale of DEVO?

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 20:02 (twenty-one years ago)

To be honest, I'm not sure what any of this "extension" stuff means. I just restarted and the ads aren't popping up now, but I tried doing what Tom said just to block future problems, and I couldn't find what he was talking about.
I hate feeling stupid like this!

― kirsten (kirsten), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 20:04 (twenty-one years ago)

http://home.gwu.edu/~tombot/screen.JPG

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 24 May 2005 20:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I THOUGHT VADGE SHOTS WUZ GOOD TIMES???

― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 20:09 (twenty-one years ago)

(Why am I having inappropriate images of a modified version of "Mike Tyson's Punch-Out"?)

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 20:12 (twenty-one years ago)

My brain is scrambling itself.

― kirsten (kirsten), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 20:13 (twenty-one years ago)

"Sexjacked" would be an excelled Spinal Tap song...

― kingfish maximum overdrunk (Kingfish), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 22:12 (twenty-one years ago)

BODY BLOW
BODY BLOW

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 22:15 (twenty-one years ago)

If you go to the Safari menu, and make sure "Block Pop-Up Windows" is selected, that will prevent this from happening as much or at all.

If it keeps happening, switch to Firefox, which has the same popup blocking, but is generally kept more up-to-date.

― Rhodia (Rhodia), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 01:18 (twenty-one years ago)

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