no viruses or spyware but what about addware?

lucface

macrumors regular

Original poster

• Sep 8, 2005

• #1

i saw stinkythe1's topic on spyware. it inspired my question:
can you get adware on osx? i dont want any! but ive been getting lots of pop ups w/firefox lately.

 

tobefirst ⚽️

macrumors 601

• Sep 8, 2005

• #2

You've been getting popups in Firefox not because there's any adware on your machine, but because advertisers have found ways to circumvent the popup blocker built into Firefox. It's nothing locally on your machine.

 

yellow

Moderator emeritus

• Sep 8, 2005

• #3

tobefirst said:

You've been getting popups in Firefox not because there's any adware on your machine, but because advertisers have found ways to circumvent the popup blocker built into Firefox. It's nothing locally on your machine.

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I second what tobe says..

Try using Safari instead of Firefox. I get virtually no pop-unders (and no pop-overs) using it's built-in pop-block.

 

XNine

macrumors 68040

• Sep 8, 2005

• #4

Yes. Firefox is not a great browser at all. It might be free, but it's still buggy, slow, and annoying. Safari blows it away. Opera is good at blocking these things as well.

 

lucface

macrumors regular

Original poster

• Sep 8, 2005

• #5

so am i rite to asume they cant run on my mac?[adware]
and on the safari tip, i will start using safari again. but what about camino i heard that was pretty good. i want to give it a try.

 

hvfsl

macrumors 68000

• Sep 8, 2005

• #6

Adblock is meant to be a good advert/popup blocker for Firefox:

https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&id=10 (although some users say it is slow on the Mac)

 

belvdr

macrumors 603

• Sep 8, 2005

• #7

Onizuka said:

Yes. Firefox is not a great browser at all. It might be free, but it's still buggy, slow, and annoying. Safari blows it away. Opera is good at blocking these things as well.

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I get better results overall with Firefox. Since it shares its engine with Netscape, most any site will work. It is still slow starting though, and that's my only complaint.

 

yellow

Moderator emeritus

• Sep 8, 2005

• #8

lucface said:

so am i rite to asume they cant run on my mac?[adware]

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I don't know if I'd say "can't", but to date, there's none (found) out there.

 

funkychunkz

macrumors 6502a

• Sep 8, 2005

• #9

belvdr said:

I get better results overall with Firefox. Since it shares its engine with Netscape, most any site will work. It is still slow starting though, and that's my only complaint.

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Netscape is trash, and takes way too long to load.