CiD!!! Aaaarggh!!

angel31572

As much as I love this site, the pop ups are dreadful! They all come (every few minutes) from CiD for every imaginable product and it is driving me insane. I never had anything like this before joining and I don't have pop ups from anywhere else. Any advice please?? :mad:

matty2767

this probably isnt helpful but i dont get any.

angel31572

matty2767 wrote: »

this probably isnt helpful but i dont get any.

Yep! You're right! :rolleyes:

goonieman

Your getting pop ups on MSE??
If so you've got something on your PC that shouldn't be there!
Run your spyware program and antivirus and see what they find

angel31572

goonieman wrote: »

Your getting pop ups on MSE??
If so you've got something on your PC that shouldn't be there!
Run your spyware program and antivirus and see what they find

Okay..thanks.

I have never had this problem before but it started as soon as i joined.

goonieman

Most likely a coincidence. Whats CiD by the way?

angel31572

goonieman wrote: »

Most likely a coincidence. Whats CiD by the way?

I really don't think it is a coincidence...

CiD (followed by whatever they are selling or promoting) is what appears on the toolbar of the pop ups

goonieman

I can assure you its got nothing to do with this site.
A quick google brought up this thread
http://forums.computeractive.co.uk/thread.jspa?threadID=106580
Seems to be malware. don't panic though, they recommend running this
http://www.prevx.com/security.asp

lotto-dreamer

Never ever had any pop-ups on the MSE site either.

Just done a quick "Google" and found two possible solutions (it's a common problem by sound of things!)

"Open your browser. At the top click on the Tools menu scroll down to Popup Blocker. Turn you Blocker on if its off. Also repeat the above steps except view your blocker option to ensure that you don't have undisired sites listed in your pop blocker allowed sites list. Also check the filter setting in that same window. If it's set to low it will allow some pop ups through. Set it to medium or high. I keep mine on medium and it prompts me to allow pop up from accessed sites"

"you have to click Start>Control Panel>add and remove prorams.
Then you look for <cid help> and remove it. it installed itself onto my computer and I got rid of it and its all gone! "

angel31572

Thanks for suggesting turning on pop up blocker but this has always been on and the problems only started recently.

however, I had a look at the prevx site and I have downloaded stuff to battle this demon!! haha

I'm sitting with baited breath. Because I get so many, I will know within minutes if it has worked.

angel31572

OMG!!!!! It worked..the nightmare is over. :j :beer: