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Unwelcome Pop-Up on MacRumors

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Belly-laughs

Belly-laughs

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I was just browsing the front page when a warning dialogue popped up…

I clicked cancel but the messenger seemed persistent so I got a few more. It even took me to another website, even when clicking cancel. To avoid a scan being performed I had to force quit Safari. Anyone knows what this is? Should I worry?
 

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Haven't seen that one before, but the windows virus scanner must be completely dumb to think your system is so messed up that it's a pc :eek:
 
Well it's good to see you allowed it to scan you registry (recommended). :D And having Safari block pop-ups is likely to do nothing as this is a javascript message box.

Are you sure you didn't have any other websites open, Belly-laughs?
 
Belly-laughs said:
I was just browsing the front page when a warning dialogue popped up…

I clicked cancel but the messenger seemed persistent so I got a few more. It even took me to another website, even when clicking cancel. To avoid a scan being performed I had to force quit Safari. Anyone knows what this is? Should I worry?
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These sort of ads aren't supposed to be on the site.

If it happens again can you take a screenshot of the ad on the top of the site? (the top banner?). Someone else had posted about this ad, but I couldn't understand from their post what ad they meant.

We try to avoid these sort of ads, but sometimes they sneak through on our ad network.

arn
 
Thank goodness I wasn't the only one this happened to!!!

I had this happen yesterday whilst on MacRumours (not on any other website)

I had to force quit safari to stop it scanning - as I had one warning pop-up, that I said 'cancel' or 'no' to - then another.

Last night I ran ClamXav and nothing found - so all is ok with me - it was only this morning I got miffed about it probably being an Ad - and I'm so thank you posted this belly laughs - thought it was just an irregularity with my system.

Edit: I managed to force quit before it redirected me - I also did the usual cookies/history clear straight after.

Edit X2: Arn it was trying to redirect me to errorsafe.com - the exact same behaviour as belly laughs
 
if you see this again, let me know.

Also right-clicking the banner to let me know where it redirects you to would be helpful.

thanks
arn
 
Wow, thats some sneaky mean advertising. Now I understand why so many people hate getting income from them. Ew.
 
Lixivial said:
Well it's good to see you allowed it to scan you registry (recommended). :D And having Safari block pop-ups is likely to do nothing as this is a javascript message box.

Are you sure you didn't have any other websites open, Belly-laughs?
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You´re right – I do have Safari set to block pop-ups. And I had no other websites open. I didn´t opt for checking my non-existent registry, pressing cancel took me away from MR and to this other site 3w.errorsafe.com/…).

arn said:
These sort of ads aren't supposed to be on the site.

If it happens again can you take a screenshot of the ad on the top of the site? (the top banner?). Someone else had posted about this ad, but I couldn't understand from their post what ad they meant.

We try to avoid these sort of ads, but sometimes they sneak through on our ad network.
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Thanks, arn. I know you guys are doing your best keeping us all happy and safe. I´ve never experienced such a dialogue box before, and doing it here on MR surprised me… Even if it had popped up on a different site, I would have turned to the knowledgeable MR members for answers.

I will certainly take full screenshots next time, and find out where the top banner ad links to.

sierra oscar said:
Thank goodness I wasn't the only one this happened to!!!

I had this happen yesterday whilst on MacRumours (not on any other website)

I had to force quit safari to stop it scanning - as I had one warning pop-up, that I said 'cancel' or 'no' to - then another.

Last night I ran ClamXav and nothing found - so all is ok with me - it was only this morning I got miffed about it probably being an Ad - and I'm so thank you posted this belly laughs - thought it was just an irregularity with my system.

Edit: I managed to force quit before it redirected me - I also did the usual cookies/history clear straight after.

Edit X2: Arn it was trying to redirect me to errorsafe.com - the exact same behaviour as belly laughs
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I had the ad again after force-quitting Safari and going to the MR front page. As you can see from the screenshots I did get redirected, but I opted for no scanning. As it happens I did empty my cache as well straight after, but that was to clear any graphics, etc. before reloading a site I´m currently working on.

At least I am now wiser and much less worried. Thanks guys!
 
It's just begging to install spyware, the fact that it find 43 registry errors on a Mac is scary and shows it isn't doing anything. All those Windows users must have a hard time (especially if they don't understand computers much.)
 
Agree. My main reason back in the day for using Macs was productivity (and this strange emotion) but it seems it has other benefits too.
 
macrumours & errorsafe

This is really bad. Its the first time I have been trapped closing windows and feeling likem y mac has a virus. Macrumours sort you site out.

I have taken you off my daily bookmark list.
 
OK, it´s happened again today. Not even all the tricks in the book prevented it from happening.

Every time I browsed to the front page I got the dialogue. I tried it on another Mac as well, same issue.

I got to this thread via Forum Spy.

I´ll edit with more screenshots if I can´t PM them to you Arn.

Edit: Arn, I´ve sent you an e-mail.
 
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