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Getting a weird pop up? [Merged]

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mrqwertyp

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Sep 22, 2020
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Hi all, in case you aren’t aware, your banner ad partner seems to be serving random malware.
I suggest asking them to more carefully vet their advertisers.

here are a couple of examples that have popped up today:
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Seems like maybe there’s a malicious advert? Others show fine in the banner like the SageSafe showing just now but have seen this a couple times tonight.

Screenshot is from immediately after refreshing the page.
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Getting a weird pop up? [Merged]

Hi all, in case you aren’t aware, your banner ad partner seems to be serving random malware. I suggest asking them to more carefully vet their advertisers. here are a couple of examples that have popped up today:
forums.macrumors.com forums.macrumors.com

It seems like a misconfigured ad. Still trying to find it.
 
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I’ve had this pop up for me on both my Mac and iPad (f.txt.js) today. Sorry that I didn’t think to do a screen capture. The second time, which was on the tablet, it was viewing the macrumors homepage. I don’t recall on the Mac...
 
This has been a problem for over 5 years, I believe it's a misconfigured ad from Google, or at least that was the main culprit in past years. I do not believe it is malware. I have been seeing it today on my Mac too. Might not hurt to scan your PC/Mac if you see it, but I don't believe it is malware.
 
Just started seeing that too earlier today for the first time in years.
 
Same here on my Mac and iPhone. On my Mac, the 'f.txt' file automatically downloads into my downloads folder, which is quite worrying.

I'll go and checkout that link above to see if theres anything I can do to prevent this.
 
Received another one on my Mac (that is different). Happened automatically when this page was loaded.

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It's not even asking me if I want to download it, I'll be just sitting here reading a page, and all of a sudden there's something jumping into my downloads folder. I wasn't clicking anything. It's been doing this to me a couple times an hour for the last day or two. It's really irritating.
 
This is definitely a Google issue. And since Google helps serve ads everywhere, it's affecting many sites -- not just ours.

Last word I heard is that they are still investigating.

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My downloads folder is full of these files that I've tried to cancel. I've tweaked all Safari Website settings to Deny (and closed the tabs that seemed to be triggering it?). What I don't understand is that I never allowed downloads from this site, so how did this get past me and my content blocking settings?
 

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My downloads folder is full of these files that I've tried to cancel. I've tweaked all Safari Website settings to Deny (and closed the tabs that seemed to be triggering it?). What I don't understand is that I never allowed downloads from this site, so how did this get past me and my content blocking settings?
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I never authorized the download either. It just downloads on it's own. I'm using a 2016 MacBook Pro. I should pull out my 2009 MacBook Pro and see if it has the same issue. If I can ever find my monitor for my MacMini I'll see if that does it too. (just moved, still haven't found the monitor in all my boxes I haven't unpacked yet).
 
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