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koella

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From: holland

internet experts help me out !

I have a question for the internet experts in here.

I contacted Simon about this but he couldn't help me out sufficient.

Well

When I open the foro site I get these annoying ads just above my page.
Not the foro ads, but some other kind. Guitarlessons, electric guitars, pick's etc.
I removed all cookies and scanned with adaware. But it didn't help.
I only have this with the foro.

Could someone help me out ? please ?

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 28 2006 20:56:06

John O.

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RE: internet experts help me out ! (in reply to koella)

Sometimes you need to try different kinds of Adware and Spyware until you catch it, these kind of things can get really damn pesky.

I had a similar problem on my harddrive itself and was forced to do a system recovery. If you're lucky and know the day when the pop-ups started and it was recent, you could try that.

Otherwise try a computer forum, those guys know about absolutely everything.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 28 2006 21:04:05

Ron.M

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RE: internet experts help me out ! (in reply to koella)

Yes Koella..
As I expained to you in my email, there are adverts for Amazon.com, The Flamenco Academy, Electric Guitar Bargains, Flamenco Guitar Method for Beginners....also software ads etc etc...
How do you think we pay for the server to host this site?
Prayer sometimes helps, but GoogleAds are more appropriate in this case ...so far, anyway!

I'm sorry they distress you so much...
Perhaps you could stick a bit of masking tape to the top part of your monitor screen?

cheers

Ron

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 28 2006 21:08:30

XXX

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RE: internet experts help me out ! (in reply to koella)

Did you try using Opera? If you have the same problem with it too (I doubt it) then you have bad software on your Pc (which shows me that you visited evil, evil sites

)

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 28 2006 21:16:04

Ron.M

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RE: internet experts help me out ! (in reply to XXX)

Deniz,
Surely if Koella had picked up some nasty AdWare then he would be getting ads about Medications, Money Making Schemes, Porn etc etc...
NOT... Electric Guitars, Picks and Guitar Lessons?

cheers

Ron

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 28 2006 21:24:28

koella

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RE: internet experts help me out ! (in reply to koella)

@Ron: Nonono ! I contacted Simon and the ads didn't look familiar to him.

I prtscreened an example to him.

I posted one on the TAB section. Take a look at it. I'll remove it later.

@Deniz. I might visit evil sites. Th ads are all about guitar, picks, amplifiers.
No viagra or porn included.

AND...I only have it when I visit the foro.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 28 2006 21:26:20

Exitao

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RE: internet experts help me out ! (in reply to koella)

Koella ULed a pdf of a screen shot and he does have funny looking ads. Mine always say Amazon but his say Google ads.

But they are in the same place, just uglier.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 28 2006 21:27:01

koella

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RE: internet experts help me out ! (in reply to koella)

Should I remove google maybe ?

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 28 2006 21:28:53

Ron.M

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RE: internet experts help me out ! (in reply to koella)

Hmmm..
I don't think I've spotted those Ad's before...
A couple of them seem a bit creepy...
Maybe an Alien has taken refuge inside your computer....call for Doctor Who!

My instinct is that somebody has hacked the Google advertising protocol and has substituted their ad's for Googles, depending if you have the appropriate malware hidden somewhere in your computer.

That company on your example, called XC..something ..seemed a bit suspicious to me.
Like they can pop your ad up on Google Ad sites at maybe half the cost?

There are a lot of clever people out there, as well as aliens...

Anyway, sorry...I'd agree there amigo....these ads don't look "normal".

cheers

Ron

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 28 2006 21:38:23

XXX

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RE: internet experts help me out ! (in reply to Exitao)

quote:

ORIGINAL: Exitao

Koella ULed a pdf of a screen shot and he does have funny looking ads. Mine always say Amazon but his say Google ads.

I have the same thing with amazon. At the bottom there is another Ad about guitar picks.

But you really should change the browser, IE is the slowest and crappiest browser ever (and insecure, too).

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 28 2006 21:42:18

koella

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RE: internet experts help me out ! (in reply to koella)

Allright Deniz !

Changed my browser into Opera.

Well whatdayaknow ? The ads are gone !

THANX !

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 28 2006 22:31:50

Miguel de Maria

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RE: internet experts help me out ! (in reply to koella)

Maybe he gets weird ads because he's from Holland. My ads are often local-based.

I don't know if Holland is weird in general, but I know one person who is.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 28 2006 22:35:41

koella

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RE: internet experts help me out ! (in reply to koella)

You should have seen the Holland-Portugal footballmatch.

Alot of weird people here, and I like it .

And beware Miguel ! To classificate something as "weird" is above all a blockade in your own mind

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 28 2006 22:39:56

XXX

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RE: internet experts help me out ! (in reply to koella)

Np, koella

I will never understand why people use IE instead of opera. Its like preferring a bad sounding guitar over a good one, although both cost the same.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 28 2006 22:59:15

Miguel de Maria

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RE: internet experts help me out ! (in reply to koella)

Koella,
I never said weird was bad, did I? What, are you from Holland? :)

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 28 2006 23:12:18

koella

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RE: internet experts help me out ! (in reply to koella)

Sorry Miguel. I misunderstood you.

No, weird doesn't have to be bad.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 29 2006 8:05:06

Exitao

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RE: internet experts help me out ! (in reply to koella)

Ever since I saw Austin Powers: Goldmember I've been afraid of the Dutch.....

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 29 2006 8:08:38

Francisco

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RE: internet experts help me out ! (in reply to koella)

quote:

I never said weird was bad, did I

you have to admit tho, it does carry a negative connotation.

Try Mozilla's Firefox web browser, Koella.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 29 2006 8:18:18

gerundino63

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RE: internet experts help me out ! (in reply to Miguel de Maria)

You are right Miguel, all people from Holland are weird, maybe it is so because we live mostly under sealevel...

But I do not get the strainge ads thoug..

BTW weird is not a bad word, because every body here is weird, so it is normal for us.

Be a bit kind for us, if we meet foreighners, we think, "heuh that's a little weird..

Peter

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 29 2006 8:22:17

koella

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RE: internet experts help me out ! (in reply to koella)

When I clicked on "remove ads" I got this ad from firefox. So I removed Firefox.
Thinking the problem has st'. to do with firefox.

I use Opera now. No ads anymore.

Thanks anyway.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 29 2006 8:41:03

Ron.M

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RE: internet experts help me out ! (in reply to koella)

Hmmm..

"..reports that a new, deceptive Trojan Horse program has surfaced. The program is engineered to produce fake Google ads that are formatted to look like legitimate ones..."

More here:-

http://www.techshout.com/internet/2005/27/a-trojan-horse-program-that-targets-google-ads-has-been-detected-by-an-indian-web-publisher/

Ron

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 29 2006 14:58:51

Miguel de Maria

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RE: internet experts help me out ! (in reply to koella)

Gerundino, I was just having a little fun with koella. I actually don't know anything at all about Holland (I'm American). I get a little confused with the Netherlands, Holland, the Low Countries...I haven't been there and it all kind of runs together! I apologize! Is Rotterdam and the Paco Pena school there? I think Tino van der Smaan is from there.

I would like to visit for sure. I hear they are quite artistic.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 29 2006 15:07:29

koella

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RE: internet experts help me out ! (in reply to koella)

No Miguel.

Actually we're smoking weed all day and we turned every windmill in a red light district.

Didn't you know that ?

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 29 2006 15:27:04

Miguel de Maria

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RE: internet experts help me out ! (in reply to koella)

Koella,
could you explain how you guys smoke weed with one hand while your other finger is in the dike? How do you do that!

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 29 2006 17:20:00

Escribano

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RE: internet experts help me out ! (in reply to Miguel de Maria)

quote:

could you explain how you guys smoke weed with one hand while your other finger is in the dike? How do you do that!

It's dyke and Holland (The Netherlands) is one of the coolest countries on the planet - well, Amsterdam is one of the coolest city

Thursdays were spliff nights in Cafe Ruska with a couple of single malts in Cafe De Stil afterwards.... ahh, memories.

In the US, maybe New York, San Francisco, Seattle or Miami, all for different reasons (nah, make it Ocean Drive).

I hear Chicago is awesome but I have never been.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 29 2006 17:47:53

koella

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RE: internet experts help me out ! (in reply to koella)

Ron thanks for the research !

@Miguel. We stuff our joints in the holes.

No serious I never smoke those things. Tried it a few times, but it did never appeal to me. ( Though drugs are legal here as you know ). It gives me a headache and a sour troath.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 29 2006 19:16:32

gerundino63

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RE: internet experts help me out ! (in reply to Miguel de Maria)

Hi miguel,

Yes it is all confusing, even for us.
Holland are in fact only two provinces, not the whole country.
In history The netherlands where ocupied by a lot of countries, (Roman, french, spanich, German) and split up and gained land and visa versa.
( Now it sounds like a big country, but it is very small)
So, now you know why we are a bit strainge, wouldn,t you be?

ofcourse I know you joked around with Koella, just wanted to participate a little.
B.T.W. If you ever fisit Holland let me know, we take you to dinner!

Peter

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 29 2006 20:43:21

koella

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RE: internet experts help me out ! (in reply to koella)

It's KOELLA Peter

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 29 2006 20:50:26

gerundino63

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RE: internet experts help me out ! (in reply to koella)

Mea culpa!
I am ashamed!

Peter

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 29 2006 20:55:19

Ron.M

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RE: internet experts help me out ! (in reply to Escribano)

The very first time I went to Holland, was with an American guy I met in Spain.
We'd got rides from Spain (standing outside the American Express offices and waiting to see who was going where, and sharing with the petrol)
France was a nono for me frankly...didn't like it.
Belgium, I had been to before, but really after the Spain experience, it left me a bit cold.
We arrived in Amsterdam around 6 in the morning and I was instantly taken how pretty the town was, with the tramcars and bicycles and canals.
We found some digs, in the skinniest house I've ever been in.
All I remember is this stairway going up and up..

In the afternoon, I was walking around with my guitar case and these guys came up to us and asked if I played any.
We went to a bar and I got the guitar out and played a couple of toque libre things and a Solea.
He said "Hey Man..you've got to come to our club!" and wrote down the address on a napkin.
It said "The Christian Youth Fellowship" etc etc...
I thought...Hmmm.. this isn't exactly my scene here...
However we had shook on it, and I'd promised I'd come, so (I never let folk down) I said to my friend that we'd go along for a half hour and then politely make our exit...
Anyway it started at 7.00pm and we finally found the place about 7.30pm.
Dreading the experience, I went in...
Well...
You could have cut the atmosphere with a knife..
There was so much cannabis smoke in the air that you got high by simply breathing..

I played some stuff, which seemed to go down well, intersperced by various whiskies and brandies and beers that were placed in front of me after each number and the occassional spliff passed to me.

We staggered out at about 10.30pm with our heads spinning.

I remember thinking to myself as I crept unsteadily along the street...

If this is what the Christian Youth Club is like...
What must the really "raunchy" places be like??

Just an anecdote though.
Holland is a fine place!!

cheers

Ron

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 29 2006 20:57:21