Strange popup in Safari as well as firefox on PCMAG.com

[435713]

I was checking some articles on PCmag.com, when I clicked the laptops link to the left and then clicked on "top 10 laptops" which is a little square box near the middle of the viewable part of the page, and then started to scroll down about half way through the article and a little box appeared at the bottom right of the screen that had an article on the new iPad. I clicked more info and a pop up window came up that said

"http://pcmag.com

popsup "

Only option was to click OK, which maybe I shouldn't have done I tried to make it pop up again and it would not until I reset safari then I could make it re-occur.

Same thing happened in firefox as well except it was displayed slightly differently.

Not sure what it is so figured it never hurts to ask. I didn't see anything install or attempt to install. Couldn't find anything searching about the popup.

Sorry if messy, tried to explain it the best I could.

 

[drunkpanda100]

Pcmag.com

Hello,
Yes this did just happen for me as well!
I did click yes >.< maybe its xss popup window??
I don't know but I would love to find out.
This was the page I was on.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2364937,00.asp

 

[kcjames]

Same here. Before quitting Safari, I captured this

I'd been reading "Contradicting Earlier Reports, Flashback Malware Infections Still High"

 

[AdrianK]

That's just a stray JavaScript Alert box. The developer of the site was probably using it to test something and forgot to remove it. It's completely harmless.

EDIT: Looks like they were just checking whether an if statement was triggered. I'm sure they'll fix it when they notice it.

function CountCheck() {
    var ccount = GetCookie('zdpops');
    
    if (ccount == null) {
        ccount = 1;
        SetCookie('zdpops', ccount);
        window.open("http://internet.ziffdavis.com/survey/popup.html", "PopUpWindow", "status=off,toolbar=off,location=off,menubar=off,directories=off,resizable=off,scrollbars=off,height=325,width=525");
         [B]alert("popsup");[/B]
    } else {
        ccount++;
        SetCookie('zdpops', ccount);
    }
}

 

[435713]

I figured it was something harmless. Thanks for checking int that Adrian. I was worried no one else would reply cause it seemed so obscure to post this. Glad people did, and glad it isn't anything. I got my mac on lockdown pretty damn tight, so I couldn't see how anything would slip through, still got to be careful with those popups though.

That was the popup I was referring to above that KC posted, I need to get a place to store some screenshots.

Thanks a bunch guys.

EDIT: LOL KCjames that you were reading about flashback. Go figure right.