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MPAA Spyware??!!
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Northants, UK
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I'm currently using my mum's laptop to access the internet, and was looking on shockwave.com, and playing a pop-cap game when (even though I've got a pop-up blocker) an IE window opened to the MPAA's respect copyrights website...
www.respectcopyrights.org
It comes up with the message 'you can click, but you can't hide' and although I'll admit to using BitTorrent on my iMac if I miss a TV show and want to catch up, as far as I know there has never been any illegal software on my mum's laptop, as it is provided by the school she works at, and is essentially still owned by the government!
Could this be some kind of spyware that has installed itself on the computer, or just a pop-up that managed to bypass the blocker I have?
Adam
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Aug 2000
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Originally posted by as2:
I'm currently using my mum's laptop to access the internet, and was looking on shockwave.com, and playing a pop-cap game when (even though I've got a pop-up blocker) an IE window opened to the MPAA's respect copyrights website...
www.respectcopyrights.org
It comes up with the message 'you can click, but you can't hide' and although I'll admit to using BitTorrent on my iMac if I miss a TV show and want to catch up, as far as I know there has never been any illegal software on my mum's laptop, as it is provided by the school she works at, and is essentially still owned by the government!
Could this be some kind of spyware that has installed itself on the computer, or just a pop-up that managed to bypass the blocker I have?
Adam
Probably bypassed the pop blocker. I wouldn't be surprised if M$ gave them a way to do it.
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Clinically Insane
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Your first problem is that you're using Internet Explorer. Try using a real browser that doesn't compromise your security intentionally.
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"…I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than
you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods,
you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen F. Roberts
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Northants, UK
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Originally posted by olePigeon:
Your first problem is that you're using Internet Explorer. Try using a real browser that doesn't compromise your security intentionally.
Like I said, it's my mums work computer, and she's not allowed to install any software on it!
Otherwise I'd be using firefox
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Join Date: Jun 2003
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This is where that "no installing" policy bangs into the reality we all know as common sense. If I were of the employees I'd be complaining that 'dealing' with IE wastes time rather than installing firefox and not having to deal with such things at all.
Then again, these are MICROSOFT CERTIFIED SYSTEM ENGINEERS at work, I imagine, so they know best 
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