Kitco has an obnoxious virus/pop-up hijack ad

[Thogey]

It pops up a window and a loud voice yells at you. " your hard drive is about to be deleted call blah blah blah"

You have to close kitco to stop it.

I ran malwatebytes with no results.

[natsb88]

I never knew how many ads Kitco has until I just now turned off my ad blocker to see if I could see what you see. Yuck.

No talking pop-ups for me though. A lot of the ads are targeted based on your browsing history/habits. I get lots of Lowe's ads for items I have previously looked at.

What you describe still sounds like it could be adware on your system. In addition to periodic Malwarebytes scans I recommend running Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit (it's free, just uncheck the option for a free trial of the paid version during installation) and, if you are running Windows 7, Microsoft Security Essentials (also free). Then use Firefox with the Adblock Plus add-on (or another ad blocker of your choice).

[Thogey]

What you describe still sounds like it could be adware on your system. In addition to periodic Malwarebytes scans I recommend running Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit (it's free, just uncheck the option for a free trial of the paid version during installation) and, if you are running Windows 7, Microsoft Security Essentials (also free). Then use Firefox with the Adblock Plus add-on (or another ad blocker of your choice).

Pain in the ass. But thanks for the advice

I think I'll just stay off kitco.

[natsb88]

The amount of trash on Kitco is pretty amazing. I turned the ad blocker back on and the page loaded at least 5 times faster.

[Recyclersteve]

I get ads on Kitco, but nothing threatening me about my computer.