Someone do something about that medical liability pop up!!!

[coloradodem2005]

Someone must have thought that it was really funny to attach that popup of the medical ad with Bush on it connecting it to our site.

[Selwynn]

1. Get FireFox

I forget that there even are pop ups on the internet...

[LynzM]

2. Use Opera or Mozilla

Or get a pop-up blocker! With Opera and Mozilla (I think, on that one) the blocker is part of the browser!

[TahitiNut]

4. As a Mozilla devotee, I'm pop-up-free.

It's an excellent browser, email client, and newsgroup client. It's free, too.

[Selwynn]

7. FireFox is Mozilla's stand alone browser - faster than IE :)

More secure, tabbed browsing and excellent pop up protection.

[TahitiNut]

8. Yes, it is.

And while I tend to prefer Xnews for Usenet newsgroups, I totally abhor Microsoft's drain-bamaged email clients (Outlook, OE, et. al.). Thus, I've historically (for the last 8-12? years) used Netscape's (now 4.7) email client. The current obese, chrome-encrusted (AOL-ized) versions of Netscape are abominable. So, I choose Mozilla with the 'integrated' email client rather than Firefox. My work habits tend to have me using email at the same time I'm Web-browsing and I've not found an email client with which I'm as comfortable. (Email clients embed web functions and standalones tend to employ IE's web functions which I dislike.)

Mozilla (I'm using 1.6) has been outstanding for the last several versions/releases. It's indistinguishable in performance from Firefox, in my view, except in initiation (Firefox starts quicker).

[LittleApple81]

3. Use the (free) Google toolbar. It has an option to block popups. n/t

[VTMechEngr]

5. Zonealarm Pro

Built in Ad Blocker:-)

[William Seger]

6. It's probably "adware". You need to remove it.

There's another thread on this, but these popups are probably being loaded by "adware" that's running on your machine like a virus, not by anything from this site. These adware assholes have developed "drive-by downloads" that will install their servers on your machine without your permission or knowledge, just by visiting a site. They often attach to your browser (and sometimes other software), they put themselves into your system startup, and some go to great lengths to make themselves hard to remove.

Many of them "eavesdrop" on the URLs that your browser is viewing and try to pop up ads for a competitor's site. That sounds like what's happening here: Whoever bought the "Save US Healthcare" ads targeted several "liberal" site URLs.

SpyBot Search & Destroy (freeware) will usually remove this things, unless you've got something brand new. You can download it here:

http://download.com.com/3000-2144-10194058.html?tag=lst-0-1

We need to bust these sleazy f-wads by exposing them to the media. People hate this kind of underhanded shit, maybe even more than spam, and they might be interested to know that the Repugs are using it. If you run SpyBot, it will report any adware servers that it finds. If we can definitely pin this down to adware and someone can provide the name of the adware service that's being used, we might be able to raise a major stink.