|
|
Joined: Nov 2000
Posts: 3,439
Carpal Tunnel
|
OP
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Nov 2000
Posts: 3,439 |
Was in Wordplay and Fun when I followed a link and got a pop-up that looked like the ones Microsoft sends. It said "Warning your computer is broadcasting a signal that makes your computer vulnerable..."
Well! I read no further. Shut down and called the Computer Gurus. They told me they'd had several calls about this and had checked it out.
Seems some clever boots has found a new way to spam. If I had clicked for more info it would have asked me to buy some so-called security. Arrrggghhh©
Thought I'd let everyone know ... just in case!
Blessings, Wow.
(Your High Priestess)
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Oct 2000
Posts: 1,346
veteran
|
|
veteran
Joined: Oct 2000
Posts: 1,346 |
This is just another variant of pop-up ad - a nasty one, cos it looks very like a standard Microsoft dialog window, meaning you may feel inclined to click buttons etc. Practically the whole dialog window is a link to a website selling stuff that you almost definitely don't want, which will probably dump loads of unwanted cookies on you. You can get ad(and pop-up)-blocking software, but if you don't have any, try closing these "dialog" windows down from toolbars, from menus, or by right clicking on them. If the windows appear to be glued to the page you're looking at, effectively as one with it, just quit that page and don't come back. 
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Mar 2001
Posts: 4,189
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Mar 2001
Posts: 4,189 |
Yeah, Weatherbug disguises itself as a free Windows update, too...usually appearing in the upper corner of the screen so you can't read it fully or click the close "x". But as you keep clicking further into it, each window asks for more and more information until you get to a screen that advises you if you do not furnish the required information it will now cost you $19 a month. I cancelled out, but couldn't uninstall the damn thing...so far I haven't been charged. Finally I had a cyber-expert friend uninstall it for me, or I might've been hooked into paying. So beware of this one, it's a Catch-22 scam if there ever was one. 
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jul 2000
Posts: 1,094
old hand
|
|
old hand
Joined: Jul 2000
Posts: 1,094 |
Another reason to have a Mac. Ya don't get confused by those ugly gray Windows boxes. 
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 6,511
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 6,511 |
Yep.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 771
old hand
|
|
old hand
Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 771 |
Oh, you two *really* ought to get a room.  
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Mar 2001
Posts: 4,189
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Mar 2001
Posts: 4,189 |
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jul 2002
Posts: 742
old hand
|
|
old hand
Joined: Jul 2002
Posts: 742 |
Rather than buy a pretty toy for graphic designers, why not just switch browsers? Mozilla lets one completely block all pop-ads without the need for any third-party software, and without the need for shelling out for a Mac. Mozilla is free, and available from http://www.mozilla.org
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 10,541 Likes: 1
Carpal Tunnel
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Aug 2001
Posts: 10,541 Likes: 1 |
Hoot, mon, there's three of us!
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 6,511
Carpal Tunnel
|
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 6,511 |
I've nothing against a menage à trois.
Whose cave shall we gather in?
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 771
old hand
|
|
old hand
Joined: Jan 2001
Posts: 771 |
Not only that, but I just learned that Mozilla is a perfect parallel of Netscape 7.0 ~ except for the nifty bit sjm mentions about the ad-banning. to Netscape for selling out! Take that!
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jul 2002
Posts: 742
old hand
|
|
old hand
Joined: Jul 2002
Posts: 742 |
In reply to:
to Netscape for selling out! Take that!
And what did you expect from AOHell? For any who are interested, here's how easy it is to completely stiop poups in Mozilla:
http://maxqnz.com/mozillanopopups.html
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 1,981
Pooh-Bah
|
|
Pooh-Bah
Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 1,981 |
I use the dreaded Norton Internet Security (hi Max) and find it keeps most of the bad guys at bay. Sadly, the main problem I have now is that if I wish to post to this site (for some reason) I have to disable ad blocking and privacy for a few seconds so that it allows the post through. Then ... if I forget ... I wander off into cyberworld and the nasty pop ups re-emerge. I wonder if there is any fix that Anu and his enormous team of worker bees could wizard up to save me turning these features off.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Oct 2000
Posts: 1,346
veteran
|
|
veteran
Joined: Oct 2000
Posts: 1,346 |
...completely stip pop-ups
Only thing is that several websites depend on pop-up forms, and you literally won't see what you're missing. Agreed that nobody should be totally dependent on Javascript and script-opened windows, but that's the only way to get neat little dialog windows and to have a button to close them.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Oct 2000
Posts: 1,346
veteran
|
|
veteran
Joined: Oct 2000
Posts: 1,346 |
menage à trois
Egad. This place is becoming a hive of Support Groups.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 1,981
Pooh-Bah
|
|
Pooh-Bah
Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 1,981 |
>hive of Support Groups
I suspect there may be a sting in the tail of this group - i wouldn't like a fish to get too close.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jul 2002
Posts: 742
old hand
|
|
old hand
Joined: Jul 2002
Posts: 742 |
>Agreed that nobody should be totally dependent on Javascript and script-opened windows,
I agree. A lighter version of Mozilla, K-Meleon, offers a very nifty feature - it les one specifiy the domains from which one wishes to block po-ups, letting you allow some and block others.
|
|
|
|
Forums16
Topics13,913
Posts229,330
Members9,182
| |
Most Online3,341
Dec 9th, 2011
|
|
|
0 members (),
1,577
guests, and
1
robot. |
|
Key:
Admin,
Global Mod,
Mod
|
|
|
|
