Some members of badmovies.org are seeing an apparently malicious popup while visiting this site. It prompts the user to download javascript code, which is almost always suspect. Ash's original thread (http://www.badmovies.org/bbs/read.php?f=2&i=94224&t=94224)
Whether you are or are not seeing this, please take a moment to report your computer's Operating System (such as Windows version), browser type and if you are running any specific popup blocker software.
Mine: Mandrake Linux, Mozilla
I use Windows XP Pro.
IE Explorer and Yahoo Pop-Up blocker.
I'm running Windows 98 SE, Internet Explorer, and I've got 3 pop-up blockers, Norton, Free Surfer and Google.
Haven't gotten those pop-ups since I rebooted a half-hour ago.
WinXP Pro
IE6
Pop-Up Stopper Free Edition
All updates are current.
I have the same things on my home system except it's running XP Home rather than Pro and no problems with that one either.
I use WinXP now (yes, I'm sorry, I prefer Linux but I need XP for MS-VS for my job right now) and Firefox
When I clicked on Feerless Freep's post, I got another pop-up box.
I'm using Win 2000 at work and on my laptop at home.
Also at home, I'm using Win XP Pro
I never have any of those popups, yet the only thing that is the same on all three systems in Firefox. I don't use IE for anything
I use XP Pro at home and work, and use Firefox for everything except some stuff it's required for at work.
If you have Window XP with service pack 2 installed, IE will also have a pop-up blocker.
trek_geezer wrote:
> If you have Window XP with service pack 2 installed, IE will
> also have a pop-up blocker.
...Unless you have it disabled like I do because it's just so damned annoying. Pop-Up Stopper works great and I much prefer it.
I have Windows Service Pack 1 installed.
I was advised by a fellow computer geek that Service Pack 2 can cause problems and cause certain programs to not work.
Is this true?
Should I go ahead and install Service Pack 2?
I had no problems with it but maybe you should figure out what's causing this for you and fix that first.
I forgot to mention that with Firefox, I am not getting popups
Any other Operating systems like Firefox and others won't be considered for now.
And I've used them before.
ASHTHECAT wrote:
> I have Windows Service Pack 1 installed.
> I was advised by a fellow computer geek that Service Pack 2 can
> cause problems and cause certain programs to not work.
>
> Is this true?
> Should I go ahead and install Service Pack 2?
Yes, SP2 *can* break some appliations (any upgrade or patch can, truthfully); mostly poorly written ones, including some MS itself.
But, you need to try it. I quick search on the Internet for WinXP Service pack 2 + {insert your app name here} should reveal if others are having problems with it/them.
Truthfully, I think this has been more of a problem with large scale business applications with complex networking requirements than home-user apps. Mostly.
I'm using SP2 here, at work, on 2 systems and also at home. It hasn't caused any problems for me at all. One thing that I believe, without it you are more at risk for security breaches. If you search it out, you'll see that many people are having problems with it but all I can tell you is that I have not.
I use Win XP Pro both here and at home, along with Opera for my browser. It has a built-in pop-up blocker that works quite well. Also, since fewer people use it and it works a bit differently that IE, I don't have many problems with malware at all. I still have to use IE on occasion, but not often.
As for SP2, it works fine for most things, but I learned (after I had installed it) that it won't work with most music recording software/interfaces, which is my next big project. Luckily, my home computer dual boots into either XP Pro or Windows 98SE, so I should still be able to do some recording.
Windows XP Pro -> Internet Explorer -> Pop Up Stopper professional
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Hey Ash, if you do decide to load Service Pack 2, make sure you run something like adaware to make sure you don't have any spyware lurking on your machine. About the only problem we've had where I work is trying to install it on machines that were infected with spyware.
I am off today, just finished up having drill weekend for the Reserve Marines.
Looked into this for some time now and I cannot replicate the problem with either of my systems. That would be XP with Sp2 running both Mozilla and IE. Nor does the older Win98 box do this, trying with either Mozilla or IE. I must have reloaded various pages, mostly the message board, over 100 times with each browser.
Both of my computers run software firewalls and are located behind a hardware firewall.
I looked through all of the ads running on the site and cannot find anything that references the domain that Ash pointed out.
The funny thing here is that Mr. Hockstatter rebooted and stopped getting them, like it was a process running in memory, but not in the startup for the OS. I wonder if this is some sort of worm that uses a flaw in IE to attempt to download further code to finish compromising the computer. That would explain why Hockstatter stopped seeing it after a reboot.
Ash, try giving me a Hijack this log:
Download Hijack This from Major Geeks (http://www.majorgeeks.com/download3155.html)
It really does appear to be something affecting the computers in question, rather than coming from the site.