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right well not to make fun or anything, but that has got to be the gayest thing since big gay al. um it looks to me that you have yet to finish what you started.
-havanger
Well, i checked your website out, and i had no problems with any popups...of course, i was using opera, but i was able to view all your pages with no problems. Your site is very interesting. I think it has to be one of the better personal home pages that i have seen. As far as the problem with ie. You just have to blame microsoft. You could put a link on your page to something like Pop-Up Stopper. And include a footnote that it will make the page easier to view. I hope this helps. -cheers, th3>kLuTz
well I tried to access your site using IE 5.x and I get no gator pop up ad. Actually I get no pop up ads other than that silly one that geocities puts on every page.
BUT the javascript you have there doesn't work with IE 5.x. I haven't tried it with Opera or IE 6.x as I'm on another machine at the moment, but just thought that you should know that with a 5.x browser it's not working either.
El Diablo
I tried your site with IE 6.x and it worked fine and no pop-ups but the geocitities ones.
I tried the site myself on a few different browsers, including opera, mozilla, and konqueror. No troubles had, though I don't have to worry about spyware on my system so much.
All things considered, it seems that the access issue is going to be on your own side for access purposes. Gator has targeted Ads via spyware which may prevent you from browsing as is normal. Try the instructions at this site to remove it.
If that doesn't work, I believe that the Gator directory is GMT. Run a find for this directory on your system. Inside there is typically an uninstaller that should remove it from your system. If not, then you will likely want to remove the directory, and manually remove it from the registry, or make it easy on yourself and get yourself Adaware.
disclaimer : the following instructions are to be run at your own risk. If you are at all unsure about what keys to remove, then don't do it. It is easiest for you to just get yourself a copy of Lavasoft's AdAware
To manually remove from registry : start -> run -> regedit -> back up your registry ( file -> export registry, or Registry -> export registry [varies based on OS]) -> edit -> find -> gator
This can be time consuming, when it locates the reg entry, delete it.
repeat the find for GMT as well.
Regards and good luck.
I didn't see any pop-ups either.
But, a small suggestion: In my opinion, Geocities isn't a real good host (neither is tripod or angelfire). If you have some time on your hands, take a look around for some better hosting componies. I know there are some that offer free service without ads and loads of space and bandwidth, and some even come with a cgi-bin (if you're into cgi programming). A good start for searching is http://www.freewebspace.net/search/power.shtml
Good luck :)
-Mike
Yeah, um, gator only displays ads if you have it installed doesn't it? The solution would be to get rid of it. Gator looks at the pages you are viewing and then finds ads that it thinks would appeal to you and uses them to cover the pages. Recently gator got sued for doing this, because gator was basically blocking access to certain sites doing this. There is only one way I can think of to get rid of this. Its gator only source of revenue I think.
Khaki's right, AFAIK. 'Gator ads' means ads CAUSED by the gator program, which does some sneaky stuff by replacing ads you see in pages with it's own ads. (Sort of like advertising stealing, isn't it?). It's not the problem with ads that are already there independently which advertise gator. Just uninstall the program.
try changing web servers that gets rid of some of the ads... most of the time
Here's the solution to your problem:
After the end of your HTML code (i.e. </html>) add this code:
<a style="position:absolute; display:none;">
It will hide the geocities ads, please include it in all your web pages.
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Originally posted here by chefer
I tried the site myself on a few different browsers, including opera, mozilla, and konqueror. No troubles had, though I don't have to worry about spyware on my system so much.
All things considered, it seems that the access issue is going to be on your own side for access purposes. Gator has targeted Ads via spyware which may prevent you from browsing as is normal. Try the instructions at this site to remove it.
If that doesn't work, I believe that the Gator directory is GMT. Run a find for this directory on your system. Inside there is typically an uninstaller that should remove it from your system. If not, then you will likely want to remove the directory, and manually remove it from the registry, or make it easy on yourself and get yourself Adaware.
disclaimer : the following instructions are to be run at your own risk. If you are at all unsure about what keys to remove, then don't do it. It is easiest for you to just get yourself a copy of Lavasoft's AdAware
To manually remove from registry : start -> run -> regedit -> back up your registry ( file -> export registry, or Registry -> export registry [varies based on OS]) -> edit -> find -> gator
This can be time consuming, when it locates the reg entry, delete it.
repeat the find for GMT as well.
I agree with this totally it looks like the popup ads you are getting are coming fro Gator being installed on your system that you use to browse this site. I when there with no popup ads at all. Gator many times gets packaged with downloaded software the promotes faster internet connection, organizing you favorites, it comes with one of the version of the Divx Player, Cute FTP, many others. I hate gator stuff. If I need to use the software for some reason I install it use the software for what I need it to do, then remove the software from my system making sure the Gator software is removed, then run Lavasoft's Adware.
Once done you shouldn't have any other issues with popup ads on this site.
Gator is a program that is running on your computer. It is a Spyware/Malware program, you can remove it with the free AdAware download from Lavasoft.
http://www.lavasoft.de
I run this on startup (look in the help file), gator may need a reboot and a re run of AdAware to be removed successfuly.
Note: Gator and other spyeware/malware apps are often incorporated into 'Freeware' programs. these 'Freeware' programs will often not run unless you have the spyware intalled. One axaple of this is Grokster the P2P filesharing client. I would read carefuly the EULA of all 'Free' software.
Gator is a spyware program goto http://www.lavasoftusa.com and install the program. Other programs to watch out for that serve ads are cydoor, doubleclick to mention a few. These programs usually install along with Kaaza, or other free programs on the web. It really is worth it to read EULA's (End User License Agreements) though it can be confusing look for words like you agree to let 3rd party corps use your computer for their gain.