Wincustomize: Nasty Pop-Ups Continuing

WC/Stardock Webmaster(s) Need To Do Something, Please

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I put up a post about this a while ago, and many others agreed they were getting the same thing.

Now, it's becoming intolerable.

I just got nailed with a "general" Trojan, from a pop-up (off main page, and WB page) just entering the site.

Now, just sitting within a forum page reading a thread, I had a giant pop-up occur every 30 seconds or so.

When I go to download something, 90% of the time, I get a pop-up when entering that page.

Sometimes it starts as a small pop-up in the lower right-hand corner of my monitor, then expands to a large full-screen one.

Other times, a small pop-up in the upper left-hand portion of my monitor, which is the one I just got the Trojan from (yes, it's possible to get a Trojan from just opening a site; malicious HTML; I'm a coder, so I know and it's been happening for years).

Other times, just one giant pop-up behind the main browser.

Damn, you've got to be kidding me! I just got one now while sitting here typing this!

This is ridiculous, and I and others have already made complaints about this.

I've posted screenshots in the past, and nothing was done. I have more screenshots now, but I really don't have the time to be uploading a ton of these just to "prove" it's coming from here... it is!

All I'm asking, as a patron of Wincustomize for the last 3 years, is that the webmasters removed the embedded coding that seems to plague this site these days, which is allowing these pop-ups.

Please, do not "argue" with me here... there's another thread I started a while back with many people having the same problem... it's true... and yes, I know what I'm doing and I know what I'm talking about... just to avoid those who would "flame" out of lack of maturity.

I'm 31 years old and a programmer/graphic artist and build pcs... so please, don't tell me I'm not having this problem with this site... it's ONLY from this site, and it started sometime around the beginning of this year, and only got worse.

I'm hoping I can fully weed-out this damn trojan, but I'm asking you guys again... PLEASE look into this, alright?

It's becoming such a problem, I almost cannot visit WC anymore.

I'm running hardcore anti-virus, firewalls and totally updated IE... so I cant even imagine how these pop-ups are getting through, but the trojans (2nd one I've gotten from a pop-up here) attach to cookies... which, while might seem easily deleted, trojans are notoriously hard to completely get rid of, and that's a problem... not to mention the spyware coming from these pop-ups (yes, I'm protected, but it still gets through) and it just being a general huge annoyance.

I'm a long-time Stardock customer, and would appreciate someone finally looking into this and resolving the problem.

Thank you.
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Forgive my immaturity but.... there is one guaranteed way to get rid of them. After 3 years you should know what I mean.
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I have never had a pop-up or seen an Ad on Wincustomize. Sorry...
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I think theres a security exploit in the Google Deskbar and toolbar .......
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I have never had a pop-up or seen an Ad on Wincustomize. Sorry..

Ditto.....
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
None here either..ever.

Mike, How are ya? Troy sent you an email today!
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Problem: Pop-ups and/or Adds
Solution: Subscribe

It doesn't get any simpler than that.
In all the time I have been a subscriber I have not seen one sigle add/popup here at WC.
Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
No pop-ups and ads for me either.

Subscribe, you won't regret it .

Or else, pick a decent pop-up blocker and see if that helps.
Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Even before I subsribed I never got pop ups.
Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top
It has changed recently (as mentioned). If you log out and then access this site, you will be inundated with pop ups. Again, the answer is to subscribe.
Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I have a hardcore popup blocker which works well - no ads at all...

But if that didnt work for me, then I would definately subscribe just to get rid of ads as I loathe the things. Not trying to brown nose but sites do need money to run and Wincustomize is no different there.

Pay up
Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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"Live with it"

"Flying Through The Cosmos"
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Reply #14 from WinCustomize Forums Top

yes, it's possible to get a Trojan from just opening a site; malicious HTML; I'm a coder, so I know and it's been happening for years

TheOtherGods   you won't be getting a Trojan from THIS site's coding.

End of story.

Drive-bys give the impression that an infection comes from elsewhere....hence the name.

But then you're a coder, so you will know this....

Reply #15 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I've never had any pop-ups from WC. I only see ads when I logout.
Reply #16 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I only see ads when I logout.


Don't logout...
Reply #17 from WinCustomize Forums Top
You might want to check your configurator abstraction wizard settings, there is quite possibly a hole in the patched inversion coupling that has caused a buffer relay overprotection induction. I had this problem until I was able to pin down a configuration for my WCSUB.pay files. Now I have gotten pretty cleaned up.

Sembetu
Reply #18 from WinCustomize Forums Top
totally updated IE


use firefox, with adblock and noscript extensions...i have never had a single popup or spyware
Reply #19 from WinCustomize Forums Top
WC has popups?

I havent gotten a single one... ever.

Firefox shows me a little bar when it blocks something, and nothing has been showing for WC.
Reply #20 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Come on now. I've been a subscriber for three years now. If I don't log in, this site is terrible, with pop ups. And we all know that.
The question is, will that discourge others from visiting this site?
Reply #21 from WinCustomize Forums Top
will that discourge others from visiting this site


That was actually discussed in the thread where Frogboy mentioned the changes that were coming to the site and the final decision was, yes, it might but in order for WC to become more manageable in terms of monthly cost something had to be done. So, the freeloaders were put on notice, subscribe or move on. It may seem harsh but this is a site run by a business and while SD isn't looking to make money off of WC, they don't have the deep pockets of a company like MS to just throw money away forever.

Now, a message for the OP. If you've been here for three years then I'd say it's high time you pony up the bucks and get yourself a membership. Then, those annoying pop-ups will just disappear.
Reply #22 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I'm a bit surprised that hardly anyone would get popups nowadays. With the popularity of Firefox and Opera, not to mention the latest IE having popup protection builtin, I'd think it would be a very small minority of people that still get popups.

Dad: Yea son, I remember back in the day you couldn't hardly surf the net for all the popups.

Son: What's a popup?
Reply #23 from WinCustomize Forums Top
You might want to check your configurator abstraction wizard settings, there is quite possibly a hole in the patched inversion coupling that has caused a buffer relay overprotection induction. I had this problem until I was able to pin down a configuration for my WCSUB.pay files. Now I have gotten pretty cleaned up.


LMAO.

No pop-up blocker, IE, subscription . . . no pop=ups. I wonder what my secret is?

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Reply #24 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I'm no coder. I don't have a job involving computers in any way. But I'll tell you this: don't except third party cookies, prompt for script activation, use a pop-up blocker, don't surf porn sites and don't jump to conclusions. Sometimes one msut just admit that they may be at fault. Ninety-five perent of all computer problems are because of the user. Clean your system, use good software to do it, and quit putting fault when there is already info available to you that if you read it, you would know that YES there are ads (duh) and your AV doesn't work properly when it calls every ad a trojan. Mr. Coder, do some research. Use WC browser or SDC browser.

You'd think that a coder would do more than just rant about a pop-up, like check his/her system for a hole in the patched inversion coupling that might cause a buffer relay overprotection induction.

Some people...
"I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life.
It's just been too intelligent to come here."

--Arthur C. Clarke

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Reply #25 from WinCustomize Forums Top

...as a patron of Wincustomize for the last 3 years... ...I'm a long-time Stardock customer...

Your profile doesn't list you as being either a current or past customer, and you've only been registered 18 months... Interesting...

patched inversion coupling that has caused a buffer relay overprotection induction

Nonsense. It's obviously a sub-space tachyon pulse generator creating an unstable wormhole - easily cured with a couple of strips of latinum