withnail Posted August 13, 2004 Share Posted August 13, 2004 i tried looking up a website today, namely www.thailanguageschools.com and a pane appeared on the left of my screen with nipa web directory in it. Has anyone seen this before and is there a way to get rid of it? I seem to remember this happening to me before a year or so ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
md3v Posted August 14, 2004 Share Posted August 14, 2004 Yes, I've seen it many times... It is NOT spyware/adware but rather some sort of captive DNS/http portal that comes up when certain URL's fail. I've asked various ISP's about it and been told its a 'CAT' thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
withnail Posted August 14, 2004 Author Share Posted August 14, 2004 Thanks for the reply Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandu Posted August 17, 2004 Share Posted August 17, 2004 Withnail I have the same problem with this Nipa and also would like to eliminate it. I have every sort of security on my PC but it sneaked in somehow. It pops up every time I try to do a Google search. Can anyone tell us how to get rid of it please? Thanks Mandu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
md3v Posted August 17, 2004 Share Posted August 17, 2004 Mandu, If you read my post above, you'll note is not spyware/adware - its part of Thailands DNS infrastrucutre. People using iPSTAR (sic) will see if quite often... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
organic Posted August 18, 2004 Share Posted August 18, 2004 If you're using Opera, try setting Open only requested pop-ups in Preferences. If you're using IE, see the many other threads about browsers here. Another possibility is editing your hosts file to redirect that domain to your own machine, the pop-up will still happen but will be empty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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