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How do I stop pop up adverts coming up

parkersphoto — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 10:40:10 GMT

I have loads of pop up advert coming up on my site when I do any activity, and it takes me twice as long to do ant thing.

Can they be removed?

Regards

Re: How do I stop pop up adverts coming up

rdweller92 — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 11:15:20 GMT

Hiya,

These don't sound ebay related.

Virus scan?

Re: How do I stop pop up adverts coming up

jacsll55 — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 11:32:08 GMT

Search Adblock plus and install it to your browser(s).

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otherego — Tue, 07 Jan 2014 14:00:24 GMT

I have loads of pop up advert coming up on my site.

Confirm this means a site hosted by you or on your behalf by someone else? If the latter, perhaps you should contact your site provider and see whether they are aware of this matter. If you're hosting your own site on your own servers, perhaps you could post back with more information - one of the networking/sites/useful-things-like-that might be able to offer a few suggestions.

If the pop-ups are appearing on your computer when you use a specific site, it might be worth asking someone else to have a look and see whether they are similarly afflicted (or try yourself with another computer, if you have one to hand.)

If the problem seems to occur only on your computer and you run some version of MS Windows, then you might like to consider:

a full virus scan with your usual antivirus;

a full scan with Malwarebytes and/or SuperAntispyware;

a sacn with something specific to adware, such as AdwCleaner.

The bleepingcomputer.com site has a good reputation - probably a safe source of downloads and advice. A couple of pages which might be of interest:

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/virus-removal/adware

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/adwcleaner/

If you've used the Yahoo! site for anything recently, I'd be extra inclined to carry out all those scans. They've had a bit of a problem with infected ads:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/01/06/yahoo_tainted_ads_malware/

If none of that covers your needs, post back giving as much detail as you can - hopefully someone with the answers will be along. This is a quiet board, so it could take a while for someone with relevant knowledge/experience to read your posts. But - more information would be helpful.

Hope you get to the bottom of it.

Re: How do I stop pop up adverts coming up

69giles — Fri, 14 Mar 2014 22:57:45 GMT

same thing has started happening to me. its just on ebay never any other site i ever vist. like most corporations having some of the money isn't good enough they want all the money.

Re: How do I stop pop up adverts coming up

jazz-music-lover — Thu, 03 Apr 2014 09:19:50 GMT

This is becoming a real pain---and only happens wwhen opening an item being listed--happens with Chrome browser.Tried Mozilla Firefox--same problem

Think I'll give ebay a miss for a while

@69giles wrote:

same thing has started happening to me. its just on ebay never any other site i ever vist. like most corporations having some of the money isn't good enough they want all the money.

Re: How do I stop pop up adverts coming up

petert5361 — Mon, 21 Apr 2014 07:41:33 GMT

i had the same problem tried all the adblockers then read about jump flip, i had inadvetantly installed this program at some point bundled with something else try finding this in your installed programs and unistal it this did the trick for me

Re: How do I stop pop up adverts coming up

kf3501 — Thu, 19 Jun 2014 15:52:57 GMT

put right coupon in your search engine it explains how to remove it.it an adware hidden virus. you have downloaded it with another program. follow steps in search engine or roll back your computer to an eariel date.

Re: How do I stop pop up adverts coming up

garyh4037 — Tue, 07 Oct 2014 08:53:56 GMT

Had the same problem, could not use ebay due to the number of pop ups. found the best way to avoid the problem was to get into ebay via the google home page. Just type in ebay and selected ebay uk, No pop ups ?.

Cheers

Re: How do I stop pop up adverts coming up

v061412396 — Sun, 19 Jul 2015 14:56:57 GMT

it a trojan i have the same proble ! if you see the bottom left of the page, when you open some thing to look at you will see it connect to a nother page this is the trojan adware

Re: How do I stop pop up adverts coming up

regalit2005 — Sat, 01 Apr 2017 18:42:12 GMT

Hi,

I also get this issue. It is something eBay need to fix as it is their site that has been compromised. I installed Sophos home anti virus and it now says that it prevented the site from displaying the messages. So obviously it is still trying but I can continue without interruption. Sophos is blocking the junk.

Sophos home is free. Give it a try. It sorted it for me. I was using AVG before but it didn't stop it happening.

I have tried rolling back my PC and even rebuilding it. It still happens again eventually. This is the only way I have managed to control the problem.

Re: How do I stop pop up adverts coming up

daytraderchris — Tue, 04 Apr 2017 19:33:12 GMT

Yeh getting surveys etc poping up on ebay now.

Re: How do I stop pop up adverts coming up

flowgojo — Sat, 20 May 2017 10:41:51 GMT

marvelous

Re: How do I stop pop up adverts coming up

right-then-petal — Sat, 20 May 2017 17:34:55 GMT

https://www.google.co.uk/#q=stop+addverts+ebay&spf=1495301614616

Re: How do I stop pop up adverts coming up

flowgojo — Tue, 23 May 2017 14:27:34 GMT

no this dose not work even slower

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flowgojo — Tue, 23 May 2017 14:28:37 GMT

this dose not work even slower

Re: How do I stop pop up adverts coming up

toritwo — Wed, 25 Oct 2017 18:35:20 GMT

I am getting the same! It's only when I am browsing Ebay.

I have followed all the ad-blocking measures, have no rougue files or malware and this only happens when I am browsing Ebay...

The type of ads are the "Congratulations - you have been selected to win" type adverts.

Any help would be appreciated. IT would seem Ebay are unaware of this issue.

Re: How do I stop pop up adverts coming up

otherego — Wed, 25 Oct 2017 20:38:18 GMT

Have you taken a look through the pinned thread at the top of the board? It's outdated now, but might provide one or two ideas.

You didn't say which operating system you're using. If it's some version of MS Windows, you might consider running a couple of scans.

Your antivirus, suitably updated, should pick up any real nasties. "Grey area" stuff like adware doesn't always trouble antiviruses, and it might be worth using software aimed particularly at adware and spyware. This is in addition to your normal antivirus.

If you are using Windows, I'd certainly use the following two:

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/adwcleaner/

https://www.malwarebytes.com/premium/

I'm out of touch with Windows, and it looks horribly as if Malwarebytes is no longer free. Watch the installer carefully, try the trial version (you can always uninstall it, or buy it if you like it)/see whether there is still some option to install a free version. This used to be limited to scanning and removal, without "real time" protection - but would have suited your needs, I think.

Let us know how you get on, anyway.

Re: How do I stop pop up adverts coming up

pervak56gr — Mon, 18 Dec 2017 15:32:22 GMT

Got the same issue started to appear around 1 year ago, with all software, and antiviruses up to date as well as happenning on brand new setups so not software related.

Re: How do I stop pop up adverts coming up

invigilator-007 — Sun, 04 Feb 2018 16:23:05 GMT

This is still happening. It's about time Ebay stopped it as a big nuisance when you are trying to bid and these individual pop ups arrive on the right hand side of the screen informing you that you need to bid again. They last about 10 seconds then go away but return over and over again.