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Jake,

The Link from your home page to the DTM site takes you to some kind of web-search page..

When you go back... it gives you a pop-up ad...

I thought I would tell you, if you didn't already know...

- Joe

Thanks man.... Didn't know that.

It's the Top Link...

The lower one tells me "page cannot be diplayed"

- Joe

The lower link seems to be working now..

- Joe

Joe, if nobody else reports this problem, you may want to run Lavasoft's Ad-Aware on your machine - that's a sign that you have spyware/adware running.

I've got Spybot Search & Destoy...

This is the ONLY Time I have seen this activity anywhere..

I think his link has been Jacked.... Curious to see if anyone else has seen this too..

It's still doing it... It's the link on the top. The one that says;

"R.A.T. announces massivetype4.com is online!!"

Thanks, - Joe

What I noticed in the source is the link that takes you to the search page is set as :
http://www.aircooledtechnology.com/massivetype4.com

it needs to have the http:// added in the source so its not tacked on the back of the home site address

Before:
<A HREF="massivetype4.com">massivetype4.com</A> is online!!

After:
<A HREF="http://massivetype4.com">massivetype4.com</A> is online!!

And see if that helps. the link below it works fine and its set as:

<A HREF="http://www.massivetype4.com" TARGET="_top">

The reason the search page is coming up is cause that page is actually that servers custom 404 Error page..

-So that means you saw the same thing too????

It's not my computer, and this link has some kind of Problem?

It's been this way for a long time... I should have let Jake know about it weeks ago.. Sorry, I forgot about it..

Thanks in advance, - Joe

yeah its an actual html typo..

Yeah...I got spy-bot search and destroy too. Great little program. Free off the internet. It sources about 10 spy-bots a week in my computer...and kills them. You should all down load it. Ray

The link on Jakes site has been doing this for a few months I believe. Its not your computor. I didn't think that was the kind of stuff spybot helped with. Spybot finds spy programs planted in your PC from downloading programs, or perhaps just logging on to malicious sites. These spy programs track your activities and make them available for advertizers or maybe the Government (LOL) Hey, there is always room for a conspiracy theory.

Ron

I also have a program called "CW Shredder"

and "Highjack This"

Both usefull FREE tools to help diagnose / repair my computer....

I run the "Highjack this" program... then copy & paste the info to Notepad, or a word document... then Post it on the Spybot Forum...

The experts there will tell you if they see anything Funky on your computer... it's alot like this site... sometimes you get several opinions, and a battle starts.. He He

well, anyway they tell you what you should / what is safe to delete

I would reccomend this for all on here... give it a try.

You would probably be suprised at the amount of crap on your computer, especially if it is a shared one.

- Joe

dping28 wrote:yeah its an actual html typo..

Bingo! dping28 is correct. Jake sent me a ton of stuff to update that evening and in the midst of posting the new stuff, I forgot to include the http:// and the TARGET="_top" of that tag. Rest assure, I will correct it this evening (don't have the pw with me nor a shell account, damn Windows server).

As for the spyware, let me let you guys in my experience with spyware. The only time I get spyware is using Internet Explorer. For 99.9% of my browsing, I use the Mozilla project's Firebird web browser. The only thing Spybot found the last time I ran it were a couple of cookies from my last IE session a few weeks ago. Did I mention it also blocks popup ads?

Whats those Virus thingies again?

I keep hearing about them...

(Currently running Mandrake Cooker...)

Mozilla/Firebird rock.

I cannot comprehend why anyone would still use Exploder..err, explorer.

Just pop up blocking should be enough reason, that and all the security issues ...aaack.

Standard disclaimer. Viruses/worms are possible on a *nix box. IIRC there have been a few dozen over the last 30 years...

I just downloaded Firebird and tried to post but no success. This is a test.

Ron