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WE NEVER USE POP-UP ADS OR ALLOW THEM ON GALLERY PAGES OR ADVERTISEMENTS
If you're encountering popups on this site, your computer could be infected. Learn more below!  


So why do they occasionally appear on amplandmovies? Here are a few possible explanations:

  1. One  possibility is that you visited a site while surfing, and that site launched pop-up windows in the background. These ads are known in the advertising industry as "pop-unders." When you came to Amplandmovies, the windows may have become visible. Again, we do not condone this practice and do not allow it on Amplandmovies.

  2. If you have installed some free programs, especially music-sharing programs such as Kazaa, you may have installed other programs as well. These tiny "time bombs" can show pop-ups at random intervals or based on anything you type on a web page. A brief description of these programs can be found here:
    http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,49960,00.html
    You can also receive unwanted spyware through security holes of your browser, or through security holes of your file sharing program.

1. Spyware detection

If you are experiencing pop-ups generated by one of these malicious programs, you may want to remove the popup program from your computer.
Free programs that attempt to detect and to uninstall these type of programs :
(please use the update option after installation.)



2. Spyware prevention

The following programs prevent unwanted changes to the browser settings :
(please use the update option after installation.)



3. Safer browser

Try using this browser, it is much more stable and should cause less security problems ; You can easily import your favorites, cookies etc from IE to Firefox.



4. More security improvements

Download and install the programs shown below to improve the security of your system.
For example, if you haven't installed a firewall on your pc, some people can access your system easily. It's the same with the Windows Update - Service Packs. (Don't forget to click on the update button after you installed the firewall/virusscanner.)



5. The popup killer

To stop 95% of all popups download/install a popup killer.Usually you can select of which sites you wish to accept popups.



If you still get bothered with popups, press ALT-F4 or CTRL-w to close them quickly.





6. The hosts file

Having strange redirects/popups on your page, even after installing adaware ?

Try this : Search for a file named "hosts" in your system directory. Delete the file, and you should be fine again ; or edit the file and remove all the lines that don't belong there, only keep the line with 127.0.0.1 Below are possible locations for the file :
  • Win98: c:\windows\hosts
  • W2000: c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
  • WinXP: c:\windows\system32\drivers\hosts




7. The DNS entries

Check if your DNS settings are still on your original settings, some malware program may have changed it.
Go ControlPanel->Network-Connections->Internet->properties->
->Internet Protocol TCPIP settings->properties->DNS Address.
Check if these 2 ip numbers are still the same.
Put back the original ones, or 'obtain DNS server address automatically' ; depending on how it was set before.
This should fix it.
If you have this problem also read the chapter : "Removal of the google redirects".





8. Removal of the google redirects

Getting any weird redirects to google, when clicking a link ?

Restart windows in safe mode by pressing F8 at the very beginning of startup, just before windows loads.
Then choose SAFE MODE and the version of your windows.
Log in as Admin.
Run all antivirus and antispyware tools you have ; then run them again until you don't find any spyware anymore.
Check if your start pages were changed and set them to your preferred startpage.

Restart in normal mode and check if you see any strange programs trying to access the web.
For this you need a program like Netlimiter.

Now run Taskmanager : Start -> Run -> Taskmgr
Go to the processes tab and check if you see any strange processes active that should not be there.
In that case end that process and check the spyware scanner again.





9. More links

Below are more links that provide more info :





10. Complaints

If you feel you were deceived when you installed a program that creates popups, you may want to take action. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) handles complaints about deceptive or unfair business practices. To file a complaint, visit: http://www.ftc.gov/ and click on "File a Complaint Online", call 1-877-FTC-HELP, or write to:
Federal Trade Commission
CRC-240
Washington, D.C. 20580

If your complaint is against a company in another country, please file it at http://www.econsumer.gov/


One last note, go to Internet Explorer and click on Tools > Internet Options... Select the Security tab and click on Custom Level... Make sure that it is at least set to Medium and that the first option called "Download signed ActiveX controls" is set to Prompt. Then be very careful about which ActiveX component you install from the web.

I hope that this helps some of you fix these mystery popups. Just remember that the next time you receive a popup it did not come from Amplandmovies and instead of emailing complaining about a service that we do for free...email the link of the shithead that you got the popup from and we will remove that link immediately. So that everyone that visits the site will not have to go through the same nightmare.