Persistent Plug-In Offer

The Lyric site is particularly bad...I steer clear.

Re: Persistent Plug-In Offer


Because some webmasters care more about making money than satisfying their visitors.

This usually happens on non-sticky sites about topics that are hard to draw "legit" ads. They draw in one-time visitors through searches and then bombard them with popups and such. They don't care because they don't expect you to come back. Lyrics sites are notorious for this.

In other words it's intentional. The webmaster is allowing that kind of advertising to make money.

On A2K, we block those. We had one the other day and we severed ties with the entire advertising network because of that one ad (coupled with the fact that the network provided no way for me to block the specific ad).



In most areas (in fact in all areas as far as I know) yes.

Craven- Thanks!

At one time I had the occasion to access a lot of lyrics sites. I have a pop up blocker (Google toolbar) that makes a noise when it blocks popups. When I went to those sites, it sounded like fireworks were going off! Also, that was about the time that I installed Ad Aware and Spybot. Boy, did I have a lot of cleaning up to do. Now that I don't often go to the lyrics sites, I rarely pick up the nasty stuff!

I had a similar thing happen to me recently. I clicked on a link, and a message came up saying "Do you want to see the filthiest sluts on the net?" or some **** like that. I clicked on "no" and a new box popped up saying "wrong answer" with only an "o.k." button. Pretty funny. I hit the "o.k." button and just closed the new window when it came up. No big deal. I could see how this kind of crap could be pretty annoying though.

The problem with the plugins is that if you finally click ok, that installs software (usually a trojan or spyware) onto your computer.

The whole point of the multiple prompts is to try to make you just give up and click ok.

Thankfully with default security settings the ability to make "no" the "wrong answer" is not possible.

When "OK" is the only option, try using CTRL, ALT, DELETE. Usually you can pick out the problem with the task manager and delete it.

Or just make the window the focused window and hit Alt F4.

yeps that's a nasty