Postcards From a "Pop Up" Free Site...

Damn pop-ups!

I use Firefox, so I never noticed, however last night when we got to Sharon's place I was bombarded with Pop Up ads when I opened her Internet Explorer.

It drove me crazy.

Today, after setting her up on wireless (which is a WHOLE other story that I really don't have time to get into), I thought I would try and save her computer from these damn pop ups that would happen when Internet Explorer was opened.

I knew there must have been some spyware or something because the pop ups would happen on her homepage - which was this site.

So, I searched high and low on her PC for some spyware program etc. Nothing. I updated her Adaware program. Still getting the pop ups.

In the off chance it was my site, I changed her homepage to google. The pop ups stopped. Then I noticed on my latest postcard was a picture I 'borrowed' from a party site ("It's a Girl" balloon). I thought perhaps that image being loaded was somehow causing the pop ups. I took that image down.

Still getting pop ups.

After checking every post, I realized it was something in my template.

Long (and boring story) made short, it turned out to be my visitor thing that counted how many people were currently reading this site.

So, it's gone. No more pop ups. Sorry to anyone who was getting annoyed.

Cheers.