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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jack Schofield

Pop-ups in Yahoo's webmail

I use Yahoo's webmail with Windows Vista, Firefox and NoScript. This works well, but I get a pop-up window a number of times each session, and it's an always-on-top window. The program asks for permission, but if I agree my virus/spyware programs refuse it. The two sources of this pop-up seem to be ad.bluelithium.com and ad.yieldmanager.com, from servers run by Yahoo.
Chris Wigzell

On the net, "free" webmail actually means "paid for by advertising" but you can try installing another Firefox add-on, Adblock Plus. Yahoo uses "ad matching", which is also known as "behavioural advertising": it tracks what you look at and provides more targeted adverts. If you regard ad.yieldmanager as spyware then you can use software such as ATF-Cleaner and SuperAntiSpyware to stop it. See the Elder Geek site for an example.

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