I agree with you. The Opinion Central pop-up is very annoying. How do I get rid of it?

I lost a day of work because of this pop up from opinion-central. I could not email clients or do anything on line. It was the most annoying thing that has ever happened.
I called the Geek-Squad and they would be happy to remove the pop-up for $249.00. I am not even sure how it got to my computer. I have my Virus protection up to date. I sent an unfriendly email to opinion-central.
Here is some info. on Opinion-Central I got from a google search:
(If you require immediate assistance, please contact us at 203-359-4174 during the hours of 9AM to 5PM EST. Or you can send me an email at CArnold@Opinion-Central.com).
I may have my attorney send them the bill for getting their pop up out of my computer. When I thought it could not get any worse it did. I went to my back up computer and somehow they found me there too. I have two computers that Opinion-Central has wrecked and made unable to use.

In order to get rid of the popup, you can add it to your hosts file and this will stop it from opening up. In order to add it to your hosts file you must remove the read only check mark on hosts then you can edit it in notepad. Remember to restore the read only to the hosts file once you have added the site www.opinion-central.com to your hosts file. the entry should look like this. 127.0.0.1 www.opinion-central.com
Note:spybot S&D enters several bad sites into the hosts file and effectively blocks them. I encountered this particular flash popup while visiting www.frontdoor.com a real estate site link from hgtv. This frontdoor.com site also serves up alexa and other spyware. I say this because I had no problems with this particular popup until I visited this site from the HGTV site. When I ran spybot, after visiting the site, these were in the entries found as spyware. You can also add this site to your security and privacy features block in IE. If this doesnt work, then also go to the flash settings and eliminate 3rd party ads. I hope this works for you.

This direction is for Windows xp pro. In order to stop this popup, you must add insightexpressai.com to your hosts file. I earlier explained the adding of opinion-central.com to the hosts file but that did not stop the popup. Adding insightexpressai.com to the hosts file will. The way to do this is in your search criteria click advanced and search for hidden files and folder. Also, uncheck hide files in windows explorer under (tools/folder options/View). Next search for the hosts file. it is usually found in c:\WINNT\system32\drivers\etc in Windows xp pro. Next right click on the file and click on properties and uncheck read only. Next Open the file in Notepad. Next add (127.0.0.1 insightexpressai.com) without the parentheses. Next click on file/save. Next right click on the hosts file and recheck read only. I also suggest blocking this site in your Internet options security and privacy settings. I also suggest using Spybot S&D to add other blocked entries automatically to your hosts file. Make sure you recheck to hide those files in windows explorer (tools/folder options/View) after you are through. Hope this helps.

These kind of ads are not only annoying, but I think they must be a security risk too. The have found a way to keep the window hidden, for what purpose one can only imagine. It is possible to kill the opinioncentral.com ads by resizing your browser, and making sure that you don’t allow java to resize windows (this can be set in most browsers). Someone needs to file a class action lawsuit and teach them a lesson.

I am an attorney and I am really sick of this and other survey style pop-ups. I too want these pop-ups to end, ASAP. SO: if anyone has the background on the pop-ups sites, Name, Address, Website, where they originated and / or how to resolve or obliterate the matter and would not mind being enjoined in a class action suit as a plaintiff I will pursue this matter on a pro-bono basis. Depending on the response I will seek to enjoin this as well as other sites from using the ‘Pop-Up’ vehicle as an advertising annoyance medium. REALISTICALLY, unless you can demonstrate otherwise, the damages would be minimal (most likely non-existent) but the SPAMMERS could be stopped with the secondary benefit being they could be subject to criminal sanctions for continued proliferation of this garbage. With a little cooperation, i.e. get me the information on the culprits and I’ll try to put an end to their little ruse. Please don’t think I’m doing this out of the goodness of my heart, I was going to do it anyway, however it is much easier to file a suit if someone else is doing all the leg work. That would be you! Respond to leefox3@gmail.com - Lee

Hi, i just saw this from googling stuff from google. whenever my computer isnt doing anyone, not even opened a internet browser yet, the opinion-central thing pops up, so i click the thing on the start bar thing (sorry, i do not really know computer terms). It shows up for like 3 seconds with nothing in it then it minimizes back into the start bar thing. it is so annoying. has anyone found a way to stop it?

I am so grateful to have read this! You have just preveed me from falling into the opinion abyss of pop up hell!