319226 - unwanted pop ups and pages load without my order

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[muniba]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

Whenever I open mozilla or IE, pages start to load showing their advertisments. They are very agressiveand anoying.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.I have Spy Catcher
2.I have PcBugDoctor
3.I have Pop-Up stopper
4. I have antivirus program Avast4 and active firewall
Actual Results:  
No impruvement, windows with advertisments szill open and annoy me very much

Expected Results:  
I wish they stopped opening without an end, they make me nervous!!

It should stop the windows from opening if I didn't choose to open them.

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Filed against wrong product.

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Attachment: popup blocking options screen shot

(In reply to comment #0)
> User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8)
> Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
> Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8)
> Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
> 
> Whenever I open mozilla or IE, pages start to load showing their advertisments.
> They are very agressiveand anoying.
> 
> Reproducible: Always
> 
> Steps to Reproduce:
> 1.I have Spy Catcher
> 2.I have PcBugDoctor
> 3.I have Pop-Up stopper
> 4. I have antivirus program Avast4 and active firewall
> Actual Results:  
> No impruvement, windows with advertisments szill open and annoy me very much

I don't use them but I would think 1, 2 and 4 don't stop pop ups.  If 3 does and it's not working then you need to consult the documentation.

As for firefox, select appropriate settings (tools > options > content) and you will block most if not most of these annoying windows.  See screen shot in attachment

Leaving to firefoxers to close the bug.

Comment 3

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

If you see a lot of popups (seeing advertisements on pages is normal, you can block them with Adblock Plus: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=266291 ) you have possibly adware on your system. 
Direct yourself to the forums of http://spywareinfo.com/ for further advice. 

Comment 4

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Reporter, do you still see this problem with Firefox 2.0? If not, can you please close this bug as WORKSFORME. Thanks!

Comment 5

[Aaron Racine]

No response from reporter -> INCOMPLETE