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very weird: where is that pop-up coming from???

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DoubleV

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i hope i'm asking this in the right forum:
my company's web site is nimlok.com and it specializes in display and exhibit design and manufacturing (this is NOT an ad, please read forward and you will see why i am mentioning this)
one of our distributors claims that sometimes, when he goes to our web site, nimlok.com is not th eonly thing he gets. he also gets a pop-up window from a company whose web site is exhibitstogo.com
our companies are from the same industry (that's why the explanation at the beginning of my post), so it seems like somehow it gets detected and a pop-up comes. but HOW???
i reviewed our home page, and there's no pop-up script on it of any kind.
the guy is using IE6, if that helps any.
i think it is totally bizzare for it to happen.
the only explanation i can possibly come up with is if he uses kazaa or any similar thing. i never used one, so i am not sure exactly how they work, but as far as i understand it constantly runs in the background, so may be it has some kind of mechanism to "trace" the web sites he visits and then give him pop-ups. i am not sure how crazy this idea sounds, but i have no other explanation.
may somebody can shed a light on this mistery?
thanks.
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I have gone through your site and I can't see anything either.

I think your guess is right about something like kazaa or gozilla.

Nice site by the way !!

Manic
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another thing I have thought of is microsoft kewords. They implimented a system to link keywords from any site to whoever paied for them.

have a look at
I have just been there and it has now been closed as a service but the customer might have something similar installed with the browser.

hope this helps. Manic
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Could he be using hotbar? That pops up ads once in a while... I think it might even target ads for the website you are visiting. Mike Wills
IBM iSeries (AS/400) Programmer
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Please, if you find my post useful, let me know. [thumbsup2]
 
Hi -
Actually, your first suggestion *isn't* crazy, and probably not far from the truth. If a browser is enabled for "cookies" (which is usually the default setting) the sites have a way of placing them on the visitor's machine, both for site tracking purposes and in some cases to make it easier, if the visitor should return, for them to have a more efficient experience, because the site "remembers" them through the cookie, storing things like passwords, preferences, and the operating system and configuration of the visitor's computer.
Computers also have "history" folders that contain lists of URLs that you've visited and pictures you've viewed.
The downside is that, unless you have (and use regularly) one of the software programs out there that cleans it off your hard drive, your computer holds onto info about all the sites you've ever visited (which is why people sometimes get busted for viewing bad sites at work, even when they don't physically store it on their machine :D), and there's plenty of software out there being used, both by companies and private parties, to take advantage of this info by harvesting it. Fun, huh? Nothing Brave New World about it at all... ;-)
mjs
 
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