damned 'dick morris' pop-up i keep getting on my mac

[spanone]

where does this stuff come from????

[davidinalameda]

1. the bowels of toe sucking Hell

:shrug:

:evilgrin:

[MineralMan]

2. What are you doing on the computer when you see that popup?

There's the key to the answer.

[spanone]

5. it's when i go to close it up...it's the last thing there

[MineralMan]

10. Do you ever visit the Drudge Report?

That site is forever plopping annoying things like this on computers. What has happened, either from there or from some other site, is that a persistent pop-up has been loaded on your computer. It's designed to stay hidden until you shut down, and then appears on your monitor. That's why I stopped visiting Drudge. After about the third nuisanceware from there showed up, I never went back.

I'm not a Mac person, so I have no idea how to get rid of it, but it's probably set to load into memory at start-up and display at shutdown. That it's loading at startup should give you a clue as to how to remove it. I'm sure the Mac has a feature that autoloads programs at start-up. Look there, and you'll probably find it.

[spanone]

11. never. i'm trying to find where i may have gone to pick up such a parasite

started yesterday.

[KharmaTrain]

3. Too Much Lurking In Freeperland?

Or some other right wing dungeon? Sounds like a good malware and spyware scan are in order...

[spanone]

6. NEVER go there

[onehandle]

4. Just block pop-ups. And ads. And especially slow, ancient security nightmare Flash. (links)

Surfing is a pleasure on my Mac.

shift-command-k to block pop-ups in Safari. In Firefox and Camino, it's in preferences.

Block ads with http://glimmerblocker.org (Free)

Kill Flash (except when and where you want it) with http://clicktoflash.com (Free)

[spanone]

7. a pleasure on mine too...the occassional netflicks pop-up till this travesty

they are blocked, trust me

[stevedeshazer]

8. I never want to see a "Dick Morris Pop-Up"

:rofl:

That's too disturbing.

[spanone]

9. when you put it that way.....ewwwwwwww

[Art_from_Ark]

12. I had a similar problem with my Mac

I was using system 10.4, and I would often get an annoying pop-up whenever I was logged into this web site. After Skinner checked to make sure it wasn't a problem on DU's side, I have a security expert check my Mac out and he discovered that I had a trojan. So he loaded some software to delete the trojan, and that took care of the problem.

[NYC_SKP]

13. Find image source, block that source. It might be "d13.zedo.com", for example.

:hi:

[EstimatedProphet]

14. Google Chrome's AdBlock works, for those of you using Chrome with this problem

Can't help you with Mac, sorry.

[Ichingcarpenter]

15. Safari 5 has it in preference plus I use click to flash

BTW ..... let me try on my mac to see if it pops up.

give me the link that did it.

[Ichingcarpenter]

16. dupe..... n/t

[alfredo]

17. It's his money he's spending to advertise here. Fuck em

let him waste his money.Click on his link and DU gets a bit of money.

[Arkana]

18. How does he suggest we prepare?

By sucking toes?