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Re: Something VERY BAD about RinkWorks (Don't Kill Me!)
Posted By: robbak, on host 210.211.107.168
Date: Tuesday, November 8, 2005, at 22:27:32
In Reply To: Something VERY BAD about RinkWorks (Don't Kill Me!) posted by zK on Thursday, November 3, 2005, at 20:47:19:

> Okay, there is something which must be fixed here...
>
> Every time I log on to RinkWorks, I get this annoying popup, which DEFIES my popup blocker, which says WARNING! Your computer may be infected with spyware, blahblahblah...

Thankfully, I do not get such ads, but I do use two layers to stop them: blocking at the proxy, and browser level.
Ads like that are the main reason that I do: They are Blatently Dishonest. An ad should look like an ad. If it looks like a dialog box, then dishonest is the least one could call it.
Yes, any site owner that permits such ads to be displayed from their site is participating in such dishonest behavior. Sorry Sam, but that's the way it is!
And ads using spyware fears to get people to install more spyware - well, do I need to go further?

rob-"Behind the firewall and I am safe"-bak.

P.S. - It's always possible that the ad may be coming from spyware installed on your machine. Spyware displaying ads using spyware fears to get people to install more spyware displaying ads.........


> I appreciate your listening to my rambling!
> zK
>
> PS, awesome site otherwise :-p

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