Hey all, just wanted to get everyone's impression on the new type of pop up messages that are popping up on people's desktops. It started out with a program called Direct Advertiser, I'm sure everyone read the story on Wired. It looks like Direct Advertiser is gone, but this program is the only one that looks available for all those spammers. Its at **broken link removed**
If you have a problem with your desktop then it sounds like you have a problem with adware or the Windows messaging service is enabled - the default setting is disabled in all newer Windows versions.
If it's when you're online then you haven't got the popup blocker configured correctly. One thing you can try is to use adbloking software, Firefox has a nice adblocking extension called Adblock Plus.
Nope--no pop-ups here (I don't get viruses or malware anymore since I stopped using Windows).
I searched the forums but vBulletin's brain-damaged search returned everything in chronological order, and that ancient post was at the top of the list. I responded without checking the dates. *sigh*