Comments on: About The Annoying Pop-Up You Might See

By: canary

canary — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 04:25:52 +0000

I did not get it. I read something about ignoring messages that warned of virus, with a click to stop, that you will actually get the virus. Know someone that fell for it and ruined her hard drive. I think someone tampers with Fox News site on occasion. May be Obama’s new internet CZAR whose former co-workers were arrested by the FBI. Kundra took leave and is back. (He’s the one that laughed about how long it took for 9/11 news to get out).

By: ravencottage

ravencottage — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 21:10:31 +0000

This has happened several times in the past few days while visiting the Drudge Report but not S&L. Someone on the Clark Howard radio show said to hit Alt+F4 but I just restart to make sure.

By: Liberals Demise

Liberals Demise — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 20:25:08 +0000

“A bit unnerving.”

Because it shows the Windows Anti-Virus Shield. Making you think it is the real deal.
Mine started to down load automatically when I hit the close tab. Told me I had 8 nasty in my system. I have McAfee protection so no warnings went off.
Thank God!

By: proreason

proreason — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 20:10:42 +0000

I got it 2 or 3 times yesterday morning and this morning. I’ve also seen it for about a year on other sites, but there was something different about this one.

If you don’t read the messages very carefully, it will begin to download something (and it even if you are very careful). To get rid of it, I had to kill Explorer. And that took a couple of times before it worked. Insidious.

At the same time, my virus blocker (Trend) spots a virus (not sure whether it’s at download time or not), tells me about it, but says it is unable to neutralize it.

A bit unnerving.

By: Liberals Demise

Liberals Demise — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 18:58:26 +0000

Same thing happened to me this a.m. and I ran a MicroSoft fix-it and haven’t been bothered since. Hope this helps!

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 18:44:31 +0000

Someone emailed me about this pop-up yesterday. I notified my advertising agency immediately, and they looked into the problem. Hopefully, it has been fixed.

I got this pop-up twice during the early part of the day on Saturday, but I haven’t seen any since. Please let me know if you see it again.

For the record, I don’t believe that the pop-up is a virus or a worm or a trojan. It is just a very bad ad that slipped by my advertising people. (We don’t even allow pop-ups.)

But I apologize for the annoyance.

By: Diane

Diane — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 15:07:02 +0000

That’s certainly possible, Lib, although I’m pretty careful about things like that. If that’s the case, though, I would think it would’ve shown up when I did the scan.

By: Liberals Make Great Speedbumps

Liberals Make Great Speedbumps — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 09:03:02 +0000

Hi Diane,

Some malevolent applications such as you describe have a “time bomb” feature where they’ll deploy at a pre-determined time just like a trojan. The malware might have already been on your computer and deploying while @ S&L might have been pure coincidence.