[- - e r i k - -]

I would think on this wide internet someone somewhere would have collected screenshots of popups, but no... Can anybody (preferably with windows) do me a favor and make some screenshots of different popups? Preferrably the most annoying ones you can come across.

[KeriVit]

Originally posted by - - e r i k - -:
I would think on this wide internet someone somewhere would have collected screenshots of popups, but no... Can anybody (preferably with windows) do me a favor and make some screenshots of different popups? Preferrably the most annoying ones you can come across.

no. you sed windows. bad boy.

[Scifience]

You should have asked me last week when my Windows PC was infected with a whole shitload of adware and spyware. Popups everywhere.

Does a video work? Not too big, but there is one here of a bunch of adware-generated pop-ups.

http://doxdesk.com/file/parasite/Ove...ition.xvid.avi (Porn Pop-Ups Warning)

[KeriVit]

[demograph68]

http://doxdesk.com/parasite/software.html#free

I noticed that Microsoft has an app called antispyware. They should release it for free but it seems that it won't be. That's stupid.

[Mafia]

Originally posted by Scifience:
You should have asked me last week when my Windows PC was infected with a whole shitload of adware and spyware. Popups everywhere.

Does a video work? Not too big, but there is one here of a bunch of adware-generated pop-ups.

http://doxdesk.com/file/parasite/Ove...ition.xvid.avi (Porn Pop-Ups Warning)

lol apple should use that as a promotional video.

[Scifience]

Originally posted by Mafia:
lol apple should use that as a promotional video.

The background on that video is that it is generated through the exploitation of a security hole in Windows Media Player (a security hole in a Microsoft product? who'da thunk it?) by a contractor of the RIAA.

When an infected file (these files are distributed by the contractor through various P2P networks) is opened in Windows Media Player, a million pop-up ads are generated in an attempt to discourage people from using P2P filesharing networks. Of course, all the ads also generate money for the said contractor.

You can read more about it on the doxdesk.com site. That guy does a lot of research on adware/spyware/malware and posts it all there.

[Sherwin]

Originally posted by Scifience:
The background on that video is that it is generated through the exploitation of a security hole in Windows Media Player (a security hole in a Microsoft product? who'da thunk it?) by a contractor of the RIAA.

When an infected file (these files are distributed by the contractor through various P2P networks) is opened in Windows Media Player, a million pop-up ads are generated in an attempt to discourage people from using P2P filesharing networks. Of course, all the ads also generate money for the said contractor.

You can read more about it on the doxdesk.com site. That guy does a lot of research on adware/spyware/malware and posts it all there.

Someone should sue them. I'm sure it must be illegal somehow to push porn at people. Not sure how many using P2P would want to go for it though. Maybe if the award from the RIAA exceeds the fine from them?

[itistoday]

Originally posted by Scifience:
You should have asked me last week when my Windows PC was infected with a whole shitload of adware and spyware. Popups everywhere.

Does a video work? Not too big, but there is one here of a bunch of adware-generated pop-ups.

http://doxdesk.com/file/parasite/Ove...ition.xvid.avi (Porn Pop-Ups Warning)

BWAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks Scifience! That's the funniest thing I've seen in months!

[theJoKell]

Originally posted by demograph68:
http://doxdesk.com/parasite/software.html#free

I noticed that Microsoft has an app called antispyware. They should release it for free but it seems that it won't be. That's stupid.

I thought I read they had changed their minds and were going to release it for free?

[demograph68]

Originally posted by theJoKell:
I thought I read they had changed their minds and were going to release it for free?

I got the impression that only the beta was free. I'm probably wrong though. Sorry.

[Scifience]

Originally posted by demograph68:
I got the impression that only the beta was free. I'm probably wrong though. Sorry.

Yeah, you're wrong.

Microsoft originally said that they might charge for it, but announced last week that it would be available free to all licensed Windows users.

[malvolio]

Originally posted by Scifience:
The background on that video is that it is generated through the exploitation of a security hole in Windows Media Player (a security hole in a Microsoft product? who'da thunk it?) by a contractor of the RIAA.

Ah, the dear old RIAA. If you can't sue enough of your customer base, you give 'em a pr0n virus.

[Mr Kino]

Poor windows users.

[demograph68]

Originally posted by Mr Kino:
Poor windows users.

Don't pity them. They get what they deserve.

[sugar_coated]

Windows are the eyes into soul.

[Eug Wanker]

[JohnSmithXTREME]

every now and again, it would be nice if my mac did that. i mean, some of those sites didn't look bad. i particularly liked the one with the horse.

[sworthy]

Anyone else starting to get a lot more popups in Safari? I NEVER used to get them, now I get a couple a day (with block popups enabled of course).

[DarwinX]

Originally posted by sworthy:
Anyone else starting to get a lot more popups in Safari? I NEVER used to get them, now I get a couple a day (with block popups enabled of course).

I notice I get some and I'm like "what the heck?" so I go and check the "block pop-ups" setting and it has become disabled. D amn pop ups!

[- - e r i k - -]

Originally posted by sworthy:
Anyone else starting to get a lot more popups in Safari? I NEVER used to get them, now I get a couple a day (with block popups enabled of course).

Advertisers have found a way to circumvent it.

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=0...223&tid=95

[OwlBoy]

Originally posted by - - e r i k - -:
Advertisers have found a way to circumvent it.

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=0...223&tid=95

This is funny too, since now its all the rage in ISP ads to say they block pop-ups.

-Owl

[malvolio]

Originally posted by sworthy:
Anyone else starting to get a lot more popups in Safari? I NEVER used to get them, now I get a couple a day (with block popups enabled of course).

I only got pop-unders myself.
According to MacFixit, they are mostly coming from fastclick, and you can easily opt out.
Seems to have worked for me, at least with sites like nytimes.com that were spawn pop-unders recently.

[Scifience]

Originally posted by malvolio:
I only got pop-unders myself.
According to MacFixit, they are mostly coming from fastclick, and you can easily opt out.
Seems to have worked for me, at least with sites like nytimes.com that were spawn pop-unders recently.

FastClick is certainly not the only ad network that has started using code designed to bypass blockers. PayPopUp and PopUpTraffic are two others, and many webmasters are also using code independent of the ad network that serves the same purpose.

Oh, and I doubt the New York Times is using FastClick for their ad serving.

[malvolio]

Originally posted by Scifience:
Oh, and I doubt the New York Times is using FastClick for their ad serving.

I doubt it, too. I think some of the ads carried on the Times's website were triggering the pop-unders.
And for whatever reason, I haven't gotten any in the past couple of days.

[turtle777]

Originally posted by demograph68:
Don't pity them. They get what they deserve.

Absolutely right.

Haha, just think of all that discussion that browsers are slower on a Mac than on a PC. Well, after shooting down dozens of pop-ups, who is REALLY faster at browsing ?

-t

[Oisín]

Originally posted by turtle777:
Haha, just think of all that discussion that browsers are slower on a Mac than on a PC. Well, after shooting down dozens of pop-ups, who is REALLY faster at browsing ?

I don't know, I haven't gotten a single pop-up (except from a few times when I've let someone else use my computer for a few minutes and whoosh, they crank up IE immediately and go to http://www.ilovepopupsvirusesandspyw...giveittome.com) for... well, a very long time, couple of years or so. And that's on Windows...

[MountainMac]

Originally posted by Ois�n:
I don't know, I haven't gotten a single pop-up (except from a few times when I've let someone else use my computer for a few minutes and whoosh, they crank up IE immediately and go to http://www.ilovepopupsvirusesandspyw...giveittome.com) for... well, a very long time, couple of years or so. And that's on Windows...

Love it how PC users think IE="Internet"

[Oisín]

Originally posted by MountainMac:


Hate it how PC users think IE="Internet"

Fixinated.

[- - e r i k - -]

Originally posted by Scifience:
You should have asked me last week when my Windows PC was infected with a whole shitload of adware and spyware. Popups everywhere.

Does a video work? Not too big, but there is one here of a bunch of adware-generated pop-ups.

http://doxdesk.com/file/parasite/Ove...ition.xvid.avi (Porn Pop-Ups Warning)

I wish I could use those, but I'm doing a persuasion speech for my school on (you've guessed it) why to choose mac instead of PC.

The point I'm doing is that right as I would start the presentation, hundreds of popups would fill my "PowerPoint" (actually Keynote2), so that's why I need screenshots. Unfortunally I don't have a PC available

[Wiskedjak]

Originally posted by Mr Kino:
Poor windows users.

I have never had a problem with popups, spyware or viruses on my Windows boxes

[Wiskedjak]

Originally posted by MountainMac:


Love it how PC users think IE="Internet"

Love it how Mac users think IE = Windows

[Wiskedjak]

Originally posted by turtle777:
Absolutely right.

Haha, just think of all that discussion that browsers are slower on a Mac than on a PC. Well, after shooting down dozens of pop-ups, who is REALLY faster at browsing ?

-t

Firefox runs faster on my PC box than it does on my Mac and it's just as effective at blocking popups and was blocking popups before Safari.

[demograph68]

Originally posted by Wiskedjak:
I have never had a problem with popups, spyware or viruses on my Windows boxes

Isit conn3cted to teh intArweb?

[Wiskedjak]

Originally posted by demograph68:
Isit conn3cted to teh intArweb?

of course

[Astro-Creep]

I've gotten one popup since installing firefox, and it pissed me off for a couple minutes. Now I find out I've got a java based virus from a stats page for a game. These people are shameless. I can't wait for my tax return to get in...

[TailsToo]

Originally posted by Scifience:
Yeah, you're wrong.

Microsoft originally said that they might charge for it, but announced last week that it would be available free to all licensed Windows users.

Well, yeah, it's hard for them to make the security holes, then charge you to fix them... or is that kinda what they did with XP?

[malvolio]

Originally posted by Ois�n:
I don't know, I haven't gotten a single pop-up (except from a few times when I've let someone else use my computer for a few minutes and whoosh, they crank up IE immediately and go to http://www.ilovepopupsvirusesandspyw...giveittome.com)

Safari can’t open the page “http://www.ilovepopupsvirusesandspyw...ittome.com/” because it can’t find the server “http://www.ilovepopupsvirusesandspyw...ittome.com”.

[Oisín]

Originally posted by malvolio:

I knew it was just a matter of time till somebody'd try...