Annoying ErrorSafe popup on Anandtech and X-Bit Labs websites...

[Evildead666]

What the hell is it ?

Its not stopped by Firefox, and i'm not sure what the hell it is.
It just seems strange that an advert has to have misleading 'yes' and 'no' boxes in a jpeg image... and it doesnt appear in the taskbar, so i'm not sure if its a window at all, or a flash overlay image or something.
When i reduce Firefox, it goes with it.

'Clear private data' in the 'tools' tab in Firefox, well i'll be doing that then...

As i stated in the header, it seems to be on Anandtech and Xbit labs sites so far...

Nothing weird in the task manager, unless its an SVCHOST cos i dont know how many of them i'm supposed to have...i think its variable.

Jez

[Evildead666]

Oh, i forgot to mention that the advert appears in one of the banners either at the top or the bottom of the pages.

[Evildead666]

Just been back to both sites, and Dailytech, and it is not there...they have 'roulette' style web advert hosting i think, and that why i only have it a few times...last night and now.

Hmmmm.....full virus scan again then too...

[ZokesPro]

I don't get any pop-ups when visiting those sites no matter which browser I use. You might be infected with spyware.

[Evildead666]

Would Kaspersky detect that ? or am i going to have to learn how to use that new Hardware Firewall ?

edit : And i'm not even sure that can do anything...

[Technoid]

I'm not seeing any popups using Seamonkey.

Your HW firewall wont (and shouldent) help against popups, spyware etc etc

[ZokesPro]

Kaspersky? Hmm, from what I can see I don't think so. But you can try Ewido, Spybot, SUPERAntiSpyware and Ad-Aware, they are all free and can pretty much clean up whatever is there (spyware, adware, malware) that isn't detected by your AV.

[Evildead666]

I've been back around a couple of times, and haven't had them come back....
It was just last night, on Dailytech, not anandtech, but it was thru there i got to dailytech.
Then tonight, i was looking at the xbit labs review of the Microchill cooler, and on every bloody page i had this annoying 'lookalike' popup thing, which i duly closed with the cross int the top right corner, even then i'm not sure it wasn't part oaf the whole image, and i did what was intended anyway....

Have to keep an eye on my credit card statements and on my bank balance

edit: If i get it again, i'll get some screen caps

[Evildead666]

Antivirus scan on Maximum settings revealed nothing...

Having a look at ad-aware...

[Evildead666]

Hmmmmmmm and big hmmmmmmm..

Ad-aware has found 199 files 'recognised' so far, and counting....'critical' it calls them...oh, sweet.

[Evildead666]

and now its spending forever on my MAME roms folder...just like every other scanning software...

[Evildead666]

and now i get that window that says "Windows is going to shutdown" and a counter counting down from 59 seconds...
luck i know the "shutdown -a" parade

looks like a full reinstall is in the works...

edit: oh wow, jumped to 310 now...lovely

[Evildead666]

hm

[Evildead666]

its finieshed, and all it found were cookie files from backups of my "my documnts" folder each time i reinstall...

So no big whoopsie or anything, feels better.

Gonna still get that firewall up and running, will be up in front of my current linux hw firewall.

Just a piccy of my 4x SATAII setup to finish. Spot the huge drive

[ZokesPro]

I wouldn't just run ad-aware, cause spybot finds stuff ad-aware doesn't and ewdio finds stuff the other two don't, and since I always scan with superantispware after those three, well it never finds anything.