Stop malicious web-page activity? Well, maybe not.

[elkinm]

Here is the explanation of the patch that caused some problems with IE.

The problem is that I get a prompt requiring me to log in with a MS Passport account. I have no intentions of doing so as I only want to see passport to use my hotmail account.

Anyway if I l click cancel, the password prompt reappears. It keeps reappearing all the time, and obviously I cannot close the window with the prompt open so I either put in a valid ID/Password or kill IE.

This is theoretically on a legit MS page which wreaks havoc.

The questions are how can I view the page without passport or stop passport logins at any time unless I actually want it like hotmail.
And how can I stop these prompts to taking over the browser so I can actually close the window or stop the prompt with any prompt.

No FireFox please.

 

[Markbnj]

I can view that page without being logged in, or having it request my login. And I hardly think that anything this page is doing is malicious. Kind of a misleading thread title.

 

[elkinm]

It is malicious in the sense that there is a legit prompt that I just cannot close. Something that is quite bad on the right site. This is a legit case of what I would call a bug or something bad.

It's good that you don't get it. It is a passport problem of some kind.

I log into hotmail and then it likes my passport and tries to use it all the time like here or on other pages but if I don't log in or the log in does not work, I can't view the page.

Is there any way to stop password to auto-login when going to a page (unless hotmail).

And how to close a window even if there is a prompt of any kind, password or JavaScript generated.

Thanks again.

 

[mechBgon]

Got an up-to-date antivirus program, a good one? Because that sounds like a PWS trojan behavior. You visit site such-&-such, it begins hammering you with a credentials box.

 

[elkinm]

Originally posted by: mechBgon
Got an up-to-date antivirus program, a good one? Because that sounds like a PWS trojan behavior. You visit site such-&-such, it begins hammering you with a credentials box.

I don't think this is the issue, this is how these sites ate supposed to function, just that they don't know how to handle themselves and IE does not know how to handle it.

I tried once again, but this time I got the prompt several times and then it took me to a page saying that login failed.

I also tried portable Firefox and obviously it does not prompt for a password. This is clearly a passport bug. Anybody know how to disable passport auto login.
I once did it by clearing my cookies but this PC has cookies I need.

Thanks

 

[Markbnj]

I don't see any sign on that page that it does a Passport login. None of MS's other support pages do. I would also suspect something fishy.

 

[elkinm]

If I use a system that never logged into hotmail or any other passport service it works perfectly fine.

This is how passport works, or doesn't work. You use it once and it is stuck.

There has to be a way to disable it. I emailed passport support. Hopefully they will help out.

EDIT, forgot about the true purpose of this thread. How to close, or go back in an IE window that currently has a prompt, like this password or anything else, without having to kill the process. I don't think this is an easy problem to overcome, in any program, but I have to try.

 

[elkinm]

Here is mention of a similar problem, but this one seems to be with an old Firefox.

No resolution listed though.