somebody sent me these clues by pm:
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Hi Patrice, just at the beginning of the post about ?(slamming) it happened to me. I immediatly tried to get rid of it, by using the red X and it just came back. I checked my popup site down at the bottom of screen and found that it was off! I always have it ON. It happened again in our site so I checked and again it was off. Clicked OFF again & so far so good. Don't know if that is what happened to others but since I fixed it the second time it hasn't happened on the rest of that same post.
this indicates that whatever it is has made it past your firewalls and anti-virus/adware/malware program(s) and might be turning off your pop-up blockers.
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When I am reading a post, the screen will automatically navigate to a page such as the following. I have gotten different pages, but they are all from
http://mywebface.mywebsearch.com.
The most recent instance was when I was on this post:
http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-95753-1.htm
However, when I now open this post in a different browser window, I'm not being redirected.
http://mywebface.mywebsearch.com/dow...203327_3380074
the question is whether both conditions described are coming from the same website (mywebface).
no matter which anti-virus/adware/malware program(s) you use, do a manual software update to ensure you have all of the latest versions and updates installed. if your program(s) don't automatically update themselves replace them with program(s) that do. even then, check them often to see if they've been updated. in addition to that ...
In Windows Internet Explorer:
--Check your pop-up blocker settings. Choose the highest security setting.
--Check your In-Private Browsing settings.
--Make sure the SmartScreen Filter is turned on.
--Check your Security settings in your Internet Options. set your Restricted Sites to the highest security level.
i use FireFox, too, but not often enough to have become at all familiar with the security setting options. maybe somebody else can help us with that.