Mmno... I'm pretty sure it was a dialog-box, not a pop-up picture. (ie. look above, the picture from Firefox where the same thing happened.)
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Mmno... I'm pretty sure it was a dialog-box, not a pop-up picture. (ie. look above, the picture from Firefox where the same thing happened.)
Assuming people you don't know don't have a clue about something will give you many surprises in life.
It could be a Javascript pop-up dialog... Although a lot of websites "fake" that dialog look (since its frame looks just like the frame of any other window) with pop-ups on Windows. It's really funny when those come up in OS X.
I don't really know why I'm joining this pissing-contest, but..
would mean to me that you're assuming I'm not familiar with windows or don't have any common sense. Well.. look at the firefox-post I made. At least there you can see it's a dialog box and not a pop-up window.
Sorry if I'm stepping on some toes here. I'm tired and probably shouldn't even post here. So if this is uncalled for, I apologize.
Neither am I. It's like a zit you keep picking at, ain't it?
It's a JPEG or GIF in a pop-up window without any scroll bars. The entire image is a clickable URL. re: Lack of common sense + Windows familiarity, I'm not necessarily talking about whether the window is a dialog box or a pop-up window but the content of the window. Why would it refer to a tool that you've probably never heard of before? And the phrasing of the message is a dead giveaway if you have common sense - they phrase it like that so that they can nominally get away with putting out ads like that.
The VERY first time I ever saw ads like that, I read the 'dialog box' and knew better than to click on it.
My flat toes are unsteppable so you can step away and it won't bother me one bit, unless you mention Applecare in which case I will fly off the handle pretty quickly
I fully acknowledge I'm blunt, often to a fault online but I don't really see that as a major problem for me.
hehe.. true-
Btw. can a dialog-box contain a picture? I really believe it's a dialog box called by java. why? if you look at the attachment, there's how it looks when you browse the forums in Firefox and get the same message. That's not a picture called in a pop-up window, that's a dialog-box called by java, without any picture.
You're probably right I should have clicked the "x", and not cancel, when in Internet Explorer. In Firefox I got no other option, I had to click either ok or cancel, so I'd get transported to their page anyways..
And yeah.. unsteppable toes are good to have on these forums.
A link for you.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFixer
The exploit is most probably browser-customised these days.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFixer
The exploit is most probably browser-customised these days.
from the wiki it seemed to me to not be a image, but javascript (remember, if you close the window it will still take you to their page. You'll have to try alt-f4, if that fails you'll have to disconnect from the internet before closing the window). In firefox it was definitely not an image, definitely javascript. We can argue that to our death, but if you look at the .pdf I attached you see it's not a seperate window. It's a dialog box.
I don't thing I'll continue discussing the pop-up vs. dialog, img. vs. no img. thing, as it really has nothing to do with the main subject.
The solution for me = Safari + Pithelmet. I notice no problems here.
Norway here. I posted about this a couple of weeks back and yesterday I got the alert dialogue again. As the screen capture shows the top ad didn´t load, but it shows which thread I´m visiting.
From the address bar you can see it didn´t give me any options, it was ready to redirect me, even by clicking "Cancel".
As it does not do any harm I´m no longer worried, but it is of course quite annoying.
Last time it happened I believe I was browsing the main page, but after visiting forum threads.
I'm in Australia and this is happening to me. MacRumors.com was working fine in the morning then all of a sudden I keep getting linked back to this crap! Oh and this on OS X not Windows! It's happening on the front page for me.
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