Comments on: Star Tribune – Stop Your Invasive Ads

By: C.C.

C.C. — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 01:47:08 +0000

The Strib’s ads annoy me to the extent that I new look at the Strib only every day or two rather than atwww.t to read it daily and be bombarded with irritating ads.

By: Brewer Caldwell

Brewer Caldwell — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:53:04 +0000

I agree with Jeff, it may not be the website. It may mean you have some malware already on your compute. The best thing I can recommend is to get AVG Antivirus. The best part about it is it’s free! They have a free anti-spyware program as well. I’ve paid $60 a year for others that do what this program does for free. If it is malware, AVG will get rid of it for sure.

http://free.avg.com/

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 07:55:54 +0000

then it’s the Strib’s server that is infected…
it’s a pretty widely spread trojan

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 04:02:43 +0000

Annoying advertising is just another reason why I visit blogs and not newspaper website.

By: Mark Gisleson

Mark Gisleson — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 14:58:44 +0000

This will get worse before it gets better. The PiPress loves to have the top of the page fold over the copy, but my Mac can’t always close that ad so some days it’s hard to read the PiPress. The Dayton Daily News, however, is the worst. They routinely use ads where people walk across the screen and park in front of the copy you’re trying to read. Worse, the “window close” button for those ads aren’t consistently placed and often move when you try to click them.

By: Aaron Dickinson - Edina Realty

Aaron Dickinson - Edina Realty — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 02:24:22 +0000

Jeff,

I have had it happen on several machines and just did a scan with Spybot, AdAware and AVG Antivirus and found no infections… it is a Star Tribune advertiser.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 18:32:59 +0000

while i hate the Strib’s ads too…

that Virus Alert popup means your browser has been infected with malware… it’s not from the Strib’s site specifically

By: Ed Kohler

Ed Kohler — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 06:01:56 +0000

Agreed. I gave up o their site and only read it when someone links to something. I’ve probably dropped from ~30 page views per day to 3.