nets pissing me off

[Dark Knight Zer0]

grrr...

My nets all screwed up. Im getting random pop-ups from hell from outta no where. When ever I click on a DL link (like the steam skin that EE did) all I get is an error page and no DL for me. Now Im getting random words with green underlines that link to a search engine (well im assuming this is me, ive only seen this at GH so far)

can anyone point me at some free software?

DK0

[Anonymous]

http://toolbar.google.com/

Download the googlebar...it pwnz

[steaLer]

rgr. looks you may have a spyware/adware as well. try running ad-aware and spybot - search & destroy.

[ferret]

Don't bother with ad-aware, Spybot will do it just fine. Half the time ad-aware will interfere with Spybot, and Spybot is completely free.

Last time I ran it on my brother's PC he had 300+ spy programs.

[[NAKED] Mithis]

http://www.spywareinfo.com/

[Dark Knight Zer0]

k thx all

Ill look into spybot later when I have a bit more time

DK0

[blue]

that's spybot search and destroy

and also, i personally WOULD run adaware. it pickes up cookies. spybot doesnt do them as well...

http://download.com.com/3000-2144-10122137.html?part=104443&subj=dlpage&tag=button <-- to dl the progie

http://www.safer-networking.org/index.php?page=home <-- main page

[Dark Knight Zer0]

I ran an adaware and I got quite a bit of it.

A nice pop-up blocker would help too...yeay for google

DK0

[[NAKED] Young DVP]

I have Zone Alarm Pro. That in conjunction with AdAware and I have NO pop-ups AT ALL. The only time I get them now is when I run iMesh. Gotta love Gator 'eh?

[HighPingedLPB]

wow.. people still actually use iMesh? :O

[[NAKED] Young DVP]

linky me with a better prog. I'm all ears.

[HighPingedLPB]

I use eMule.. there's also winmx (which EE seems to like, but I don't), as well as kazaa lite which I used to use (if that still works).

[[NAKED] Young DVP]

kazaa is the one getting all the media attention, isn't it? what's eMule about?

[Anonymous]

WinMX is great...I love it

[Zantas]

if you need a kazaa lite install thingie, i can send you one.

winmx is sooooooooo slow

[blue]

no. you all need to go to www.suprnova.org
get a bittorent client and get your files the w00t way.

[PeregrineFalcon]

use shareaza its far better then all the rest. Allows for Torrent files and connect to gnutella 1 and 2

[Dark Knight Zer0]

I got a new one called limewire

its not bad, nice interface and connects to the gnutella servers

LIMEWIRE.COM BIXES

DK0

[HighPingedLPB]

limewire isn't new at all... that's been around for a pretty long time now

[Dark Knight Zer0]

its new to me damnit!

DK0

[PeregrineFalcon]

ya limewire is old, and personally it sux compared to Shareaza....shareaza is open source and created by one dude. It has a bunch of security stuff and blocks a lot of ip address.

[HighPingedLPB]

shareaza also uses the edonkey network, right?

[PeregrineFalcon]

ya it has capabilities to connect to a number of networks, edonkey being one of them.

[HighPingedLPB]

hmm.. I'll have to check that out