Definately no pop up's on Synthzone. This is one of the very few FREE places on the net that does not bombard us with advertising. Apart from the musicians friend banner there ain't nothing here.

Some progs, even MSN messenger generate their own pop ups. Look carefully at what software is running. Usually GAIN or or Gator which come with freeware or shareware. Pop up hell!
Best wishes
Tony

I am using zonealarm works great, www.zonelabs .com ,BENNO

Burkels.....
I ASKED a question, (to which I got a lot of good answers)... I didn't BLAME S-Z or anyone else!!!
t.

Thanks for all the good feedback, gang ...
Just before I left the office one of the techs told me he was going to have me run "spybot" tomorrow ... We'll see what that does.....
t.

Tony,

I use AdAware, Google Toolbar, and Spybot. So far it seems to work very well to make sure that no ads or other windows pop up to annoy me.

I am sure that Spybot will be helpful to you; however, I don't think any one free program today is capable of everything, so you may have to put on some other tools as well, if the problems do not go away.

REgards,
Alex

Alex... I ran spybot this AM and it seemed to help ...it 'caught' a lot of 'stuff' I did not know was there...

As I said in an earlier post, this is the PC in the office so I am limited to what the staff techs will allow me to do, especially when it comes to downloading software ....

rhumba ... I will double check to see if it happens as soon as I open Internet Browser ..

The strange part was that the pop-ups appeared more on this site than any other which is why I asked the question ... But perhaps that is because S-Z is the first site I come to after our company's intranet page opens ...
thnx agn,
t.

[This message has been edited by tony mads usa (edited 03-12-2004).]

You suggested that SZ caused you to see a lot of popups. "Anyone else out there experiencing a LOT of pop-ups on this site lately?" - So I pointed out that SZ was not the problem. And added one of the good answers to it. You're welcome.



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Roland EXR-5 user - http://www.exr5.tk

Burkels ... I'm not going to get into a p*****g match over this, but I did not intend to suggest that S-Z CAUSED the pop-ups ... I was just defining a situation ...
And when I said I got a lot of good answers, it was all inclusive...
t.

Tony, in case you run out of option to exterminate those pop ups, let me know and we'll get to the bottom of it.

Synthzone is very clean. Banner is a good thing because it helps the website survive. If you visit S-Z and get a pop-up, your "PC" is pretty much "infected", require step-by-step deletion of folders and registry key.

I can't brag about my music playing ability, but when it comes to pop-up, nothing can get by me ...yet. This is what I do for a living (I mean, to earn enough $$$ to buy my gear)

..rb

rb .... thnx ... one of the in-house techs has been working on this on and off today .. we found a fair amount of 'stuff', including the fact that "Lycos" had found its way into my pc without our knowledge ...
We dumped the 'stuff' we've found, so hopefully we're eliminating the problems, if only one step at a time ...
t.