Those pop ups that say "You've won a free laptop"are they trustworthy? My son said not to open them.Have You?

Question

I'd love to have one...and I heard one person on Y.A. say they won one one on this site...but I'm still afraid of them. What would you do? Open it and find out ...or Not???? Thanks.

Answer 1

don't be fooled by those addies, its mostly scam, and ytou can esily infect your computert with spyware, malware...and belive you don't wantto do it.

if you want a laptop check your local store, or visit companies e-stores with good or decent reputation

Answer 2

My friends have "won" Ipods and Laptops by clicking these pop ups. But at a high price.

Usually it requires signing up for two or three offers which could be CD/DVD Clubs, Netflix, etc. Once you put your email in these forms you get flooded with all kinds of spam, and if they put their phone number in they got 10-25 calls a day from telemarketers.

They did get a laptop after paying the fees for their offers and then shipping for the computer itself, but it was such a hassle to get removed from the lists, and to cancel all the club memberships once the laptop had arrived, and it wasn't like the world's greatest laptop or anything, just very, very basic. No CD/DVD Burner, no great gfx card, just a cheap computer with lots of hassle.

Answer 3

If you actually look up the cross reference to the scripture at John 18: 6 you will notice it points to John 7:46 where it states "The officers replied: “Never has [another] man spoken like this.” They knew he was the "Christ" which is Greek for Messiah. It says nothing about Him being God. Along similar lines, we could read Philippians 2:9, where the apostle Paul describes what God did after Jesus died and was resurrected. The verse says: "God exalted him [Jesus] to a superior position and kindly gave him the name that is above every other name." If Jesus was God or equal to God before he died and God later exalted him to a higher position, would that not put Jesus above God? Yet how could anyone become superior to God? And if he was God before he died, how can God die? There is no "mystery" here. Jesus is the Son of God. Also, God always referred to Jesus as his son, and Jesus always referred to God as his father, showing that God was older and had more authority. He also said that he came to do God's will and not his own, showing two wills; his father and his. Two separate wills. If you want to go on believing that God has three heads, then you must have three too, since you were created in his image!

Answer 4

Just SPAM. If you don't know the company you don't open it. The less that can happen is to make you give them personal data, like name address phone number so they can call you in case you win,

and the worse after you fill out their form and close the window, you will find out that you get a virus or a spyware.
Not all sites do this but viruses like VUNDO and smitfraud spread that way.
So use your pop-up blocker and never click on ads, or never click on such pages received by e-mail.

Answer 5

They're fake. Don't click on them at all, because some of them can damage your computer. A free laptop would be nice, but that just doesn't happen.

Answer 6

I build computer and program and all those "ads" are is spyware. Not Good For Your Comp!!!! Do Not Click, reward your son with a cookie or dog treat as appropriate

Answer 7

The person you heard say they won one of these was probably a spammer.

Most all of these contest you see in Popups are phishing and spammers.

You can open it if you have some really good anti-virus software but myself I would just DELETE it and move on..

Answer 8

Never open any of those popups, they will do you no good. Either they will lead you to some porn site or they will download adware/trojans to your computer. Steer clear of all such popups that offer free gifts.

Answer 9

Nothing is free and we have won nothing on this Internet. Just send them to the SPAM folder and forget it. This is just like the great TV ads, mostly gimmicks.

Answer 10

One of the first things to do when you suspect malware is DISABLE System Restore.
If enabled, this allows malware to hide in the computer and re-install itself.
So, to disable it, RIGHT-click on "My Computer." Select "Properties" then under the 'System Restore' tab, check 'disable system restore' IF not already checked.
The next most helpful things that would help you are to use ONLINE scanners from websites to remove any malware on your PC.
The current best online scanners I prefer are from Kaspersky antivirus and Bitdefender antivirus. Together, these 2 scanners will find ALL the bad stuff on your PC because they have the BEST detection rate.
First, use Kaspersky's. (FYI: ALL these scans require you to agree to a EULA and install an activex control which is needed to perform the scan, so agree to them all.)

*NOTE: Some scanners ONLY work with IE or may not fully remove malware

http://usa.kaspersky.com/products_services/free-virus-scanner.php (KAV)

Then scan with:
http://www.bitdefender.com/scan8/ie.html


There are MANY other good online scanners which you may choose to also use (which will take longer but ensure safety):

http://onecare.live.com/site/en-us/default.htm (Windows Live Onecare)

http://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/ax/ (A-squared scanner)

http://www.ewido.net/en/onlinescan/ (ewido)

http://www.ca.com/us/securityadvisor/pest/scan.aspx (Spyware scan)

http://www.ca.com/us/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan.aspx (Virus scan)

http://www.pandasecurity.com/homeusers/solutions/activescan/ (Panda Antivirus)

http://housecall.trendmicro.com/ (TrendMicro)

http://www.eset.com/threat-center/cac.php (Nod32 AV scan)

http://support.f-secure.com/enu/home/ols.shtml (F-secure AV scan)


After using these, it's ESSENTIAL to install at least 3 antispywares. Do NOT use more than 1 antiVIRUS as they conflict.

The best things in life are FREE, and great free software can be found @:

Superantispyware.com (Superantispyware FREE version)
lavasoft.com (Ad-aware)
emsisoft.com (A-squared FREE)
safer-networking.org (Spybot S&D)
javacoolsoftware.com (SpywareBlaster, EULAlyzer, & MRU-Blaster)
microsoft.com (Windows Defender)
grisoft.com (AVG AV)
Avast.com (Avast AV)
free-av.com (Avira AV)
activevirusshield.com (AOL Virus Shield, which is basically Kaspersky for free)
siteadvisor.com (Tells you how safe websites are)
phoenixlabs.org (Peerguardian blocks malware, government, and anti-p2p org's)
zonealarm.com (Top Notch Firewall)
comodo.com (Another Top Notch firewall)
iobit.com (Advanced Windows Care)
Eusing.com (Safe Registry cleaner)
ccleaner.com (Junk file cleaner)



Now if you can afford it, the best software to BUY are:

Spy Sweeper
Security Task Manager
Norton AV (Takes a lot of CPU but it's nice if you can afford to use those resources up)
Nod32 AV
Kaspersky AV (BEST! =D )
Bitdefender AV
Sophos AV
F-secure (Same as Kaspersky)
Linkscanner (Blocks exploits in real time)
Advanced Uninstaller


*One other thing to consider is using another browser besides Internet Explorer. IE has a lot of security holes,
making it less safe than other browsers. I prefer Firefox from mozilla.org.
It's just as easy to use and has a lot of neat little add-ons you can toy around with. By itself, it is also safer from exploits than IE.*




As always, things will vary for you but I can assure you these things will help more than a lot.
Some things you can use together and others you can't. Some you will find harder to use or more 'pretty.'
Some may just not work for you and may be unfixable here on Yahoo Answers. I'm just here to help and hope the
best for everybody. As always, others may disagree but there's only one way to find things out---try it! As long
as you always have an UPDATED AV, AS, & firewall, things will go ok. Oh! And use your head when browsing the net.
Hope I was able to help and fix anything needed. If I have, please consider returning & leaving a nice comment and
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Chris ;)