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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.
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.
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?
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 )
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?
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".
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..."
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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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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).
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.
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From: The Netherlands
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!
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!!
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