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Getting Malware Warning Popups in Safari 4

Dmac77

Dmac77

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Jan 2, 2008
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I don't know if anyone can help me with this, but for the past week or so, I've been getting weird popups when going to sites like nytimes.com, macrumors.com, cnet.com, google.com, and other perfectly safe sites that say something along the lines of "This site may harm your computer." And then when I click "Ignore" I get another popup that says are you sure, and I can't get out of the popup, and then I have to quit Safari.

I'm wondering if I have some kind of trojan or something like that. I'll get a screenshot next time it happens.

Anyone have any ideas?

Don
 
I too have noticed this at times, even with sites that I'm familiar with, I'm wondering if this message is appearing due to the Fraudulent Website feature in Safari being active?
 
Dmac77 said:
Thanks. Apple really needs to fix this, it's annoying as hell.

Don
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1) It could just be a popup, a fake window. These are made to convince windows users they have malware so they will go to a fraudulent website and download malware disguised as A/V software.

2) It could be safari's fraudulent site check, you should not ignore that.

Either way it's not something Apple can "fix". Make sure you are using safari's popup blocker and have the block fraudulent sites turned on in the security section.
 
snowmoon said:
1) It could just be a popup, a fake window. These are made to convince windows users they have malware so they will go to a fraudulent website and download malware disguised as A/V software.

2) It could be safari's fraudulent site check, you should not ignore that.

Either way it's not something Apple can "fix". Make sure you are using safari's popup blocker and have the block fraudulent sites turned on in the security section.
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I do have the popup blocker enabled. Did you read the above comments? cmcbridejr posted a link to another thread where other people are having this same problem with Safari 4. This is a problem with Safari 4's Fraudulent Website feature. Ads are causing this message to popup. Apple can fix this, and they need to.

Don
 
Dmac77 said:
I do have the popup blocker enabled. Did you read the above comments? cmcbridejr posted a link to another thread where other people are having this same problem with Safari 4. This is a problem with Safari 4's Fraudulent Website feature. Ads are causing this message to popup. Apple can fix this, and they need to.

Don
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The other thread made it clear it's NOT a problem with Safari or OSX, but an advertisement that has made it's way into the rotation. Get a screenshot and forward it to macrumors so they can identify the offending ad and have it removed from the site.
 
In the battle of the spam pop-up blockers, the advertisers currently have the upper hand.

Doesn't mean any more than that, your machine isn't infected, just that the spam advertisers have defeated your pop-up blocker.

You don't need a anti-virus program, just a pop-up blocker update ... which will hopefully be soon.
 
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