WE NEVER USE POP-UP ADS
OR ALLOW THEM ON GALLERY PAGES OR ADVERTISEMENTS
If you're encountering popups on this site, your computer
could be infected. Learn more below!
So why do they occasionally appear on Youbigtits?
Here are a few possible explanations:
One possibility is that you visited a site while surfing,
and that site launched pop-up windows in the background.
These ads are known in the advertising industry as "pop-unders."
When you came to Youbigtits, the windows may have become
visible. Again, we do not condone this practice and
do not allow it on Youbigtits.
If you have installed some free programs, especially
music-sharing programs such as Kazaa, you may have installed
other programs as well. These tiny "time bombs"
can show pop-ups at random intervals or based on anything
you type on a web page. A brief description of these
programs can be found here:
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,49960,00.html
You can also receive unwanted spyware through security
holes of your browser, or through security holes of
your file sharing program.
1. Spyware detection
If you are
experiencing pop-ups generated by one of these malicious
programs, you may want to remove the popup program from
your computer.
Free programs that attempt to detect and to uninstall
these type of programs :
(please use the update option after installation.)
Download
and install Adaware
Download
and install Spybot
Download
and install Spysweeper
2. Spyware prevention
The
following programs prevent unwanted changes to the browser
settings :
(please use the update option after installation.)
Download
and install Spywareblaster
Download
and install Spywareguard
3. Safer browser
Try
using this browser, it is much more stable and should
cause less security problems ; You can easily import
your favorites, cookies etc from IE to Firefox.
Download and
install Firefox
4. More security improvements
Download
and install the programs shown below to improve the
security of your system.
For example, if you haven't installed a firewall on
your pc, some people can access your system easily.
It's the same with the Windows Update - Service Packs.
(Don't forget to click on the update button after you
installed the firewall/virusscanner.)
Download
and install all windows updates (Scan your system)
Download
and install a firewall (eg. ZoneAlarm)
Download
and install a virusscanner (eg. McAfee virusscanner)
5. The popup killer
To
stop 95% of all popups download/install a popup killer.Usually
you can select of which sites you wish to accept popups.
Download
and install a popup killer
(eg. Google ToolBar)
If
you still get bothered with popups, press ALT-F4 or
CTRL-w to close them quickly.
6.
The hosts file
Having
strange redirects/popups on your page, even after installing
adaware ?
Try this : Search for a file named "hosts"
in your system directory. Delete the file, and you should
be fine again ; or edit the file and remove all the
lines that don't belong there, only keep the line with
127.0.0.1 Below are possible locations for the file
:
Win98: c:\windows\hosts
W2000: c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
WinXP: c:\windows\system32\drivers\hosts
7. The DNS entries
Check
if your DNS settings are still on your original settings,
some malware program may have changed it.
Go ControlPanel->Network-Connections->Internet->properties->
->Internet Protocol TCPIP settings->properties->DNS
Address.
Check if these 2 ip numbers are still the same.
Put back the original ones, or 'obtain DNS server address
automatically' ; depending on how it was set before.
This should fix it.
If you have this problem also read the chapter : "Removal
of the google redirects".
8.
Removal of the google redirects
Getting
any weird redirects to google, when clicking a link
?
Restart
windows in safe mode by pressing F8 at the very beginning
of startup, just before windows loads.
Then choose SAFE MODE and the version of your windows.
Log in as Admin.
Run all antivirus and antispyware tools you have ; then
run them again until you don't find any spyware anymore.
Check if your start pages were changed and set them
to your preferred startpage.
Restart
in normal mode and check if you see any strange programs
trying to access the web.
For this you need a program like Netlimiter.
Now
run Taskmanager : Start -> Run -> Taskmgr
Go to the processes tab and check if you see any strange
processes active that should not be there.
In that case end that process and check the spyware
scanner again.
9.
More links
Below
are more links that provide more info :
Spywaretools
Spywareinfo
Securityoptions
Coolwebsearch
Google Bar
10. Complaints
If
you feel you were deceived when you installed a program
that creates popups, you may want to take action. The
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) handles complaints about
deceptive or unfair business practices. To file a complaint,
visit: http://www.ftc.gov/
and click on "File a Complaint Online", call
1-877-FTC-HELP, or write to:
Federal Trade Commission
CRC-240
Washington, D.C. 20580
If
your complaint is against a company in another country,
please file it at http://www.econsumer.gov/
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One last note, go to Internet Explorer and click on
Tools > Internet Options... Select the Security tab
and click on Custom Level... Make sure that it is at
least set to Medium and that the first option called
"Download signed ActiveX controls" is set
to Prompt. Then be very careful about which ActiveX
component you install from the web.
I
hope that this helps some of you fix these mystery popups.
Just remember that the next time you receive a popup
it did not come from Youbigtits and instead of emailing
complaining about a service that we do for free...email
the link of the shithead that you got the popup from
and we will remove that link immediately. So that everyone
that visits the site will not have to go through the
same nightmare.
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