Questionable "ad"?

[FuzzyBee]

I was just surfing the hot deals forum, and I got a pop-up installer for "Scratch Cards" for CRM (?) media. The only other window I had open was to my webmail on my own personal server, so I'm pretty sure it came from here. Just an FYI.

 

[birddog]

I'm getting it too.

 

[olds]

Same here. I had to ctrl-alt-del.

 

[ProviaFan]

Mozilla is set to not allow all unrequested Javascript windows (so PM windows and such still work, but popunders don't). Ergo, I have not seen this window of which you speak.

Now, this is probably a stupid question, since you guys most likely run it already, but have you been using Ad-aware or some other similar program? If not, please do, to make absolutely certain that it couldn't be anything else.

 

[olds]

I run Adaware and Spybot. Spybot seems to get everything and I might have to dump Adaware.
EDIT
As a test I ran spybot and I am still getting them.

 

[FuzzyBee]

I didn't do the install, and didn't have to ctl-alt-del either. I need to talk with the sysadmin here about getting gigher privileges so i can actually install ad-aware.

 

[Pepsei]

It came from here... I don't visit other places.

This one is vicious, It didn't have options for you to cancel, just install... and if you installed it by accident, it hides itself...and bring up 2-3 windows every 10 or so minutes... bastards!

 

[BatmanNate]

God bless Opera.

 

[FuzzyBee]

Originally posted by: Pepsei
It came from here... I don't visit other places.

This one is vicious, It didn't have options for you to cancel, just install... and if you installed it by accident, it hides itself...and bring up 2-3 windows every 10 or so minutes... bastards!

Weird - I had the option to cancel. Maybe it's an NT4 thing, since that's what I was running at work.

 

[masterxfob]

Originally posted by: fuzzy bee

Originally posted by: Pepsei
It came from here... I don't visit other places.

This one is vicious, It didn't have options for you to cancel, just install... and if you installed it by accident, it hides itself...and bring up 2-3 windows every 10 or so minutes... bastards!

Weird - I had the option to cancel. Maybe it's an NT4 thing, since that's what I was running at work.

same here, i'm running W2K.

 

[CTho9305]

Originally posted by: jliechty
Mozilla is set to not allow all unrequested Javascript windows (so PM windows and such still work, but popunders don't). Ergo, I have not seen this window of which you speak.

Now, this is probably a stupid question, since you guys most likely run it already, but have you been using Ad-aware or some other similar program? If not, please do, to make absolutely certain that it couldn't be anything else.

I think you and I (mozilla users) are missing out on an opportunity to give our personal info to companies to sell.

 

[TNTrulez]

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