Re: Pop ups going to adgardener.com

rick baird wrote:

Saw that one already - not the same issue. adgardener's been around
forever. whatever it is, it's blocking sites that can fix it.

Rick:

Wish I could help, but I can only throw thoughts.

There are two generic circumstances -- something's running that you didn't ask for nor grant permission for, or some add-on was accepted by you.

But how to find out what it is...?

Just in case it might give some useful info, what happens when you investigate with Process Explorer? See:

http://archive.midrange.com/pctech/200902/msg00053.html

It might just show the browser, but it might also give an extra clue. Other utilities at the SysInternals site might give more clues.

BTW, if you've updated to a recent Java, did you reject the Yahoo add-on? Also, I've started removing all older Javas (Add/Remove programs). The latest ones are all I keep, and I always try to reject extra add-ons. If I accept an add-on, I read any licenses. If a license says anything about "other software that might be included and licenses are accepted implicitly by accepting this license", I don't accept.

Are there particular sites that do it or is it general web access?

Can't think of anything else right now.

Tom Liotta

On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

http://www.computer-juice.com/forums/f49/harvest173-adgardener-com-fastclick-17989/

http://tinyurl.com/c7a6ca

Way at the bottom. See if that helps?
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*John Jones wrote:

Not happening to me, but you could add adgardner.com to your hosts file with
a 127.0.0.1 address. It probably wouldn't stop the popups but they would at
least be empty.

Check FF for any undesired add-ons.

Run a full AV scan, not just anti-ad/spyware. Try yours or a free scan from
Housecall: http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

Run the Secunia Software Inspector to look for missing updates:
http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/online/


On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 1:14 PM, rick baird <rick.baird@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Is anyone else having issues with pop up windows going to adgardener.com?

I'm using Firefox and have all the ad blockers and pop up blockers
active, and usually don't have any popup issues except for the
occasional netflix popup. I have them open in a new tab instead of a
window.

Earlier this week, I had a problem - the browser would spawn 4 or 5
tabs, all to addresses such as

http://harvest577.adgardener.com/....
http://harvest578.adgardener.com/....
http://harvest579.adgardener.com/....

with each tab having a different number next to harvest. The contents
of each tab are blank. I close the tabs, but about every 5 minutes,
they return. I close Firefox and delete cookies, but they still come
back the next time I fire it up.

I ran ccleaner, adaware and spybot and one of them fixed the problem,
but now they're back.

They seem to spawn automatically - I'm not browsing at the time - so
it seems to be a timed thing.