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The pop-up from hell

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shoujoboy

shoujoboy

Launching shoujoboy 2.0

I'm not sure that this is a bug per se, but it's a damn annoying something. When I visit this site now, I get one of those redirect/pop-up ads taking me to one of those fake spyware removal scans. It completely removes me from MT and the only way to get rid of it is to close my browser completely. It happens now at about a rate of 50% of my clicks through the site, and only happens on this site. The only way I've been able to truly prevent it is clicking the stop button before each page fully loads.

This is mostly evident on Internet Explorer and a rare occurence on Firefox. Is this a widespeard problem or am I simply an isolated case?

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LordEndervonHellsing

LordEndervonHellsing

Spirit of Sparta

It happened to me as well, I am being redirected to some ad-avare and antivirus scans, and I am using Opera. So I guess it's not a single thing...

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I was getting it a lot last night using Safari, but not with IE or FF. It has been happening to me since about 11 PM PDT last night.

davidh01

davidh01

No Longer Active...

I am not having this problem where I am running Firefox with the NoScript and AdBlockPlus extensions. My guess is that it is a third party script causing the issue rather than MT per se. It could be generated from either adecn.com or google-analytics.com, as I have both those sites disabled under NoScript and am having no problems accordingly.

fireflywishes

Retired Moderator, Linguistics

fireflywishes

Calgon, take me away~!

I got that one once yesterday on Firefox. However, after running an actual Virus Scan and upon subsequent visits, I haven't gotten the pop-up again...

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Daemoro

Daemoro

Charatouille or Bust

Haven't had any pop-ups/unders ever since I installed Ad Muncher (which is a must-have) and the AdBlock extensions (I use Firefox by the way).

According to my calculations, your problem doesn't exist.

Oh, and mostly anti-celeb/anti-Hollywood/anti-commercial since 1978

Northy

Northy

Guys are human as well.

I guess it's possible that AD Aware or Spybot S&D is tackling those on my account, because I haven't seen those for quite some time anywhere.

My guess is that the creators of these fake spyware removal programs basically buy themselves into standard banner rotation services at regular intervals to counter the blocking of their earlier ads.

Cobalt-Phoenix

Cobalt-Phoenix

-Phoenix of the Blue Flame-

I personally have not had this pop-up. I can venture a guess as to why though, it's because I have NoScript, an add-on for FireFox. It blocks third party scripts from executing.
I have mine set to block ALL website scripts and when I visit a site that I want to allow, I simply allow it and any other site I want.

Here is the link:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/722

It has saved my computers from a lot of problems that I have been having before I used it.

This should help. :)

EDIT: Here's the NoScript web site.
http://noscript.net/

Spystreak

Retired Moderator

Spystreak

The Grim Reaper

Yes I've met this nasty little bugger 3 times so far, usually after visiting the gallery. I'm no a Mac so no harm other then me not being able to mod the forums.

Fools You Can't Escape from The Grim Reaper. Your Only Chance for Escape Is Death. Bye Bye Now
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shoujoboy

shoujoboy

Launching shoujoboy 2.0

I'm starting to wonder if something has been done behind the scenes, because I haven't done a thing and yet it has ceased to pop-up. Does it know we are on to it... or are people still getting this thing on occasion?

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I just came across this report and I have a similar problem. It has been happening ever since I started coming on MT, regardless of my web browser. I don't get a virus scan thing, but I usually get something like a Netflix or Zwinky pop-up. It only happens when I come onto the site for the first time and I click a link (like a gallery item for example). It's pretty annoying. Because I am not interested in renting "Elf" from Netflix.

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shoujoboy

shoujoboy

Launching shoujoboy 2.0

Resurrecting this thread due to necessity... is anybody now having trouble with outright redirects to other sites? It's not that fake spyware site, but now a variety of sites, to include Heavy.com. Heavy.com? A site like this that says it's family friendly is sending me to one of the most adult sites that isn't porn? I do hope this is an isolated incidence otherwise we may have a serious problem. Anybody else?

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sailorchiron

sailorchiron

Memories of Eliteness

I'm having the same problem at least twice every time I come to MT. It's driving me nuts. I'm wondering if it's something one of the ad vendors has launched that Shequel hasn't seen yet. On top of that, my antivirus HATES it so it redirects me to their site when I try to get away from the original redirect. The pop-ups are annoying, but this is different. I'm with shoujoboy, this is a serious problem.

merged: 08-03-2008 ~ 07:42pm
Okay, in the process of seeing if anyone had posted after me, I got redirected to a gaming site. >_<

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yothsothgoth

yothsothgoth

You came along and cut me loose

http://www.cafemom.com/?utm_source=miva&utm_medium=sem2&utm_content={creative}&utm_campaign=tier2&utm_term=best+diet+loss+pill+weight&p_id=low&sendroicid=2b9ba436-43b8-48e0-9f5e-d74eb333dc6c&sendroikwd=best+diet+loss+pill+weight

This one came up as I was going to a thread. -_- I clicked on the thread and the popup was there instead.

There were others, but I didn't snag them. One was even aware of where I lived and was directed towards books in my city. Its really starting to get annoying. >.<

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I get redirected to random sites occasionally as well.

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