To make the story brief, my mother plays Neopets and she has some kind of Adware trojan on her computer that kills her with popups. I can't install antivirus and all that because of a control freak relative that lives with her. So I looked at the popups, realized it was Javascript, installed NoScript, the only alteration I made to original settings was to set it to allow neopets.com so she could play games on the site and do other things, and told her to go. However, after a few days she said she has popups again. Either she did something to screw it up (possible) or I didn't set it right. Can anyone help me figure this out?
I don't know if this would effect your situation (in fact I doubt it), but NoScript has had to make some hasty changes because they've been found in violation of Mozilla's add-on policy. Did this start after NoScript updated? And really, convince them they need an anti-virus. It's for their own good.
Thanks for the input. I think the problem is that I didn't know that NoScript hit users with ads so I need to block NoScript itself with Adblock Plus, which is what that was all about. Again, muchas gracias. I grew up in a house with a father and a younger brother who never lost an argument, and not because they were always right. When they argued with each other, it was epic. :lol: Anyway, you eventually learn what that computer in "WarGames" finally figured out at the end of the movie.
Huh, never seen WarGames. What happens? And just a bit more on the ABP / NoScript standoff: NoScript actually went into adblock settings and white listed themselves! They also did something to make this hard to remove.. the combination of that got them in trouble. The adblock blog has the full story, somewhere or other.
WOPR, the computer, realizes that the only way to win is not to play the game. It's a little more involved than that, but suffice it to say that the answer to your question explains what she's dealing with.
It's a little more involved than that, but suffice it to say that the answer to your question explains what she's dealing with.[/quote] You could install it and just not have a start menu folder or desktop icon, and just not have scheduled scans. That'd make it seem like it's not there at all, but it would prevent a virus coming in.