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Irritating ads when shifting pages
Tuan Jim
Posted: 31 March 2008 11:04 AM   [Ignore]
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Ok, it might just be me, but I kinda doubt it.  Is anyone else getting those irritating Pinecone Research ad things that basically hijack the page and don’t let it load?  I’ve seen them a number of times - only on Twitch - now and whenever they show up, I basically have to go back to the main page, and sometimes even refresh that as well to get rid of the huge empty white box.  It’s getting pretty irritating when this happens on every other link.

Just fyi.

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Ard Vijn
Posted: 31 March 2008 01:27 PM   [Ignore]   [#1]
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???

Have never seen one of those when browsing any Twitch page, you might have a hijacker program in your pc.
Same happened to me two years ago with a different site. I kept being redirected but it wasn’t the site, it was a tiny malware program I had accidentally picked up.
It was a bitch to remove too, took me half a day, had to run several programs, fix registry etc… 

Check here for a free spyware/adware/scumware remover (amongst many other things) which is trustworthy:

http://www.techsupportalert.com/best_46_free_utilities.htm

That site has saved my ass on several occasions, I now even subscribe to the extended page which shows 120 categories instead of 46.

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