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Community weekly poll: What do you consider the biggest nuisance on the Internet?
- 6/8/06 11:50 AM
A..O..L.. hmm
by Mike_Tao
- 6/12/06 9:42 AM
In reply to: MAC for Spam? by kyrhett
That seems to be a good solution for some people. However, I believe AOL has its own problems and I will continue not to use it.
Scams
by Klahansua - 6/9/06 3:20 AM In reply to: What do you consider the biggest nuisance on the Internet? by Marc Bennett
I am totally fed up with receiving these mails from all over the place asking for your help to retrieve large sums of money from some obscure bank account, usually telling some tale of death, orphans etc left without any money. Ahhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!! I don't think!! Also the ones supposed to be from Pay Pal or Ebay and ones telling me that my bank account has been breached, for a bank I don't even belong to.
I must get several of these types of mail every day.
Mo
Pop-ups and the blockers I need to stop them
by auntie763 - 6/9/06 3:55 AM In reply to: What do you consider the biggest nuisance on the Internet? by Marc Bennett
I know it's unavoidable, but my pop-up blocker, which removes annoying advertising, also prevents "wanted" pop-ups to appear, so I'm constantly having to "allow pop-ups" from sites that I prefer for things that I want to see. It's a pain in the neck.
I agree
by mtnbkr1169 - 6/9/06 5:43 AM In reply to: Pop-ups and the blockers I need to stop them by auntie763I agree with your frustration about the websites such as www.pogo.com that require you to disable your firewall before you can access their games. That makes users vulnerable, even during the few seconds required to disable, load, and then enable again - just to play a game. They are not putting customers' concerns first.
I have been accessing Pogo for years without having to disable/enable my Norton Internet Security, but about 10 days ago I began to be unable to access games without disabling Norton first. I don't understand why that changed all of a sudden.
Linda
Other
by MeraOffice.com - 6/9/06 3:58 AM In reply to: What do you consider the biggest nuisance on the Internet? by Marc Bennett
MySpace.com
I hate those sites you can't exit
by pdxcop - 6/9/06 9:02 AM In reply to: Other by MeraOffice.comIt really ticks me off when I am surfing on a topic and end up opening a site I can't close. They never seem to be sites that just open in a new window, but sites where you need to back out of. I end up having to disconnect and reconnect.
Sites you can't exit
by vegwriter - 6/9/06 11:21 PM In reply to: I hate those sites you can't exit by pdxcopI hate them too, because usually I've gotten to them from some other path, and then there's no way to backtrack to return to whatever site I was at before it, and I might have forgotten what that other site was.
You CAN exit any site and get back, a few tips...
by kadhum_altaai - 6/14/06 6:53 AM In reply to: Sites you can't exit by vegwriterNot sure exactly what you refer too but this is a common problem. You get to a site and the back button doesnt go back to the page just before the site in front of you. Usually becuase you are in an intermediate Advertising Site inbetween where you were and where you are now. Solution: Right click on the Back Button and chose the website "two" (or more) down, from the first one in the list, this usually gets you out of the page you want out of. If you ever end up closing all sites, you can usually get back to where ever you were with the History. There is an option to change the "number of days in history", the default is 20, set it to 60 or more. If you have sites popping up all over the place, right click on each, Minimized "Internet Explorer" button in the system tray and chose "Close Group". In the worst cases, you can use "Control Alt Delete" and use "End Task" on all listings of Internet Explorer. You can group them by clicking on the column title and it will sort and group by name. One way or another, I have never had it impossible to get out of a site. Good Luck.
Dave Hungerford
***** enlargement scams
by Cheryl&boys - 6/9/06 4:33 AM In reply to: What do you consider the biggest nuisance on the Internet? by Marc Bennett
i don't need them 'cause i'm a 9 year old girl
Yipes! Don't tell your age!
by Marysue - 6/9/06 5:40 AM In reply to: ***** enlargement scams by Cheryl&boysYou don't ever tell anyone your age online. There are so many bad people looking for youngsters to violate. This may scare you, but it may save your life! Please be careful with personal information like your age, your gender, where you live, and other things. Don't even tell a friend on line these things. Didn't your parents warn you? Giving information about yourself online is like getting into a car with a stranger!
Great Reply Marysue!
by ChuckB0612 - 6/9/06 6:56 AM In reply to: Yipes! Don't tell your age! by MarysueYou are so right! And that's how so many people any age get themselves into trouble online, they let their defenses down and offer private info to total strangers left and right. These people online are total strangers!! People seem to forget that point. I mean would you give your credit card # or SS# to someone you bump into on a busy city street because they asked you for the info --- of course not, then why would you do that with a faceless person online? You can't see them so they can tell you anything about themselves to make it sound authentic and credible.
Whether it's responding to spam, in chat rooms or etc. As time goes on people just need to be conscious of what's going on around them and definitely take on-line security SERIOUSLY!
Just my 5 cents worth. Sorry, I had to jump in, I have friends and family ask me so often to untangle their computer messes after they have gone to who know what for websites and they scratch their heads wondering why their computer is messed up. They mess up their PC and at the same time they are probably going to sites they shouldn't be going to..and lot's of times it's kids 9-19 yrs old.
OK..I'm done.
Exactly, Chuck!
by Marysue - 6/9/06 8:04 PM In reply to: Great Reply Marysue! by ChuckB0612Yes, you raise an interesting issue--people going to questionable sites (like gambling, x-rated and ebay), where they unwittingly pick up some cyber-entrails when they leave the site. Then they unwittingly send these entrails along with a seemingly harmless joke from one of those sites to their e-buddies, and their e-buddies get 20 spams in their e-boxes the next day. The ony thing to do is "block-sender" these inconsiderate and naive friends. Too bad!
That's why...
by BlazeEagle - 6/12/06 2:47 PM In reply to: Great Reply Marysue! by ChuckB0612I go by BlazeEagle when I'm online.
I wonder if that person is an adult prankster instead of an child?
Dosent Matter
by ttcgreg - 6/9/06 10:42 PM In reply to: Yipes! Don't tell your age! by MarysueHey pal!!
Who knows that is someone telling his real age
It may matter
by Marysue - 6/10/06 7:04 AM In reply to: Dosent Matter by ttcgregSo? But if it was a little girl that didn't know any better, I want to warn her! There are some truly insane people out there, people with their damaged frontal lobes on "slow", and their limbic on "fast", with an Obsessive-Compulsive attachment. A little psychopathic, in other words. And why on earth would someone pretend to be a 9 year old girl, unless he was a little gibbled in the head, heart and soul? I say "he" only because most psychos are male, it seems--haven't got the extra x and DNA fix-up equipment.
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