Zap/punch monkey ad...slows down computer

[jstix]

When ever I encounter this ad my mouse pointer starts flickering and it's response gets very laggy.

specs:

Duron 650
96mb ram
voodoo 3 2000 agp
IE 6 beta

I know my computer isn't the fastest, but it should atleast be able to handle a web ad
I have tried updating to IE 6 and updated ms virtual machine(I think the ad is a java applet), neither solved the problem.

Any thoughts on how to fix this would be appreciated.

 

[Jex]

Do you have a firewall? Block packets from the server where the add is coming from.

 

[sandorski]

Checkout the "Off Topic" section for this issue. A lot of us hate that ad, one thing common amongst us "haters" seems to be Voodoo vidcards. Perhaps it's an Nvidia conspiracy!

 

[noxipoo]

i get a slowdown too. its something with the code. it doesn't happen all the time but it does happen. my CPU load will jump to 100% with this AD. as soon as i close the window cpu goes back down to nothing.

radeon64ddr vivo
1.33ghz athlon

it seems crazy for a little AD to load the cpu to 100%, maybe its tracking us :|

 

[MrGrim]

The solution.

 

[TravisBickle]

instead of "shock the monkey" i'd be more willing to shock the spam merchants with an electric cattle prod up their privates... I don't want to win any money I just want satisfaction!

 

[Mitto]

Hi,

if you want to block ads and annoying popups then go to www.intercantech.com there you can download a shareware version of adsoff.

Mitu

 

[sharkeeper]

That admuncher doesn't work too well. I came back here and sure enough, that munchkin ad is up there! I'll stick to my tried and proven @Guard 3.22 that I bought a year and a half ago!

Cheers!

 

[Viper GTS]

My system did it too until I pulled out the V3. I replaced it with a 4 MB PCI Rendition Verite board, & the ad runs perfectly. Voodoo3 seems to be the common factor.

Viper GTS

 

[Sir Fredrick]

My approach may be a little too complicated for some, but it works perfectly for me.
I'm in Win2k, I set up IIS to enable the web server, but I set it so that nothing is sharing and all it does is block connections. I am also using BlackICE for a firewall, so outside connections don't even make it to the webserver. I feel that my system is pretty secure this way. Then, I simply edit my hosts file so that the domain names being used to serve up ads point to 127.0.0.1

it works out quite nicely. here's an example of my hosts file:

127.0.0.1 link4ads.com
127.0.0.1 connect.247media.ads.link4ads.com
127.0.0.1 secure.webconnect.net
127.0.0.1 ad.doubleclick.net
127.0.0.1 ads1.zdnet.com
127.0.0.1 ads2.zdnet.com
127.0.0.1 ads3.zdnet.com
127.0.0.1 images.anandtech.com
127.0.0.1 ads.x10.com
127.0.0.1 ads.zdnet.com
127.0.0.1 images.zdnet.com
127.0.0.1 ads14.focalink.com
127.0.0.1 view.avenuea.com
127.0.0.1 gserv.zdnet.com
127.0.0.1 ads.web.aol.com
127.0.0.1 ak.cache.imgis.com
127.0.0.1 generator.zdnet.com
127.0.0.1 chkpt.zdnet.com

only problem is some sites use some of these ad servers to do redirects in order to count their traffic. Fortunately, the actual URL of where you want to go can always be found after the question mark in the URL you were actually transfered to.

This would also work without the webserver running, but it would take longer and the whole idea is to reduce loading time.

 

[nortexoid]

i do believe it's your video card - if i recall correctly, my voodoo banshee did the same thing with particular web ads...

did u try using their latest drivers? - that might solve it