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An annoying pop
Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2004 9:29 am
by Thadrin
I'm constantly getting a pop up from some Smily server when I reload TBB, asking for a password.
Is anyone else getting this or is there spyware on my machine?
Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2004 10:15 am
by juck101
no sorry think you may need to be a virus/spy check.
Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2004 10:40 am
by Ivesy_boy
it just poped up here, only seen it once.
Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2004 11:30 am
by Thadrin
I ran norton and it came up clean. Running spybot now.
Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2004 11:31 am
by TiMuN
I don't have that popup ... must have been an addbot installed on your system.
Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2004 11:39 am
by Thadrin
Just finished running Spybot and it found two files which I got rid of. I was forced to use IE yesterday (a site I wanted to use only works in IE - IDIOTS) and had to lower the security to allow cookies.
We'll see if it helps. According to the tools my system is now clean, and I totally cleaned out all my cookies and temp files.
Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2004 11:47 am
by TiMuN
In the mean time, i've run an online virus check, and found some different virus in my 'deleted messages' folder (i always got the there even before pre-viewing)
So people, run some
http://www.pandasoftware.com online tests ... really useful!
Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2004 12:12 pm
by Darkson
I've had it twice, both times when I went to this thread:
viewtopic.php?t=3424&start=0
Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2004 2:01 pm
by TiMuN
You are right, i'm prompted with a 'We are moving servers, bear with us' user/password type of window, and it says something like mysmilis.ipbfree.com
Someone attached his avatar to a non-add free online server, and it's trying to open us a smilies window!!
Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2004 2:06 pm
by Thadrin
Wondered if it was something like that...
Question is, who's is it?
Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2004 9:52 pm
by Munkey
It's Zy-Nox's avatar which is linked to
http://mysmilies.ipbfree.com/s/contrib/ ... eyKill.gif
Not too hard to spot but I hadn't noticed myself as I use Mozilla Firefox, hope that helps though.
Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2004 4:31 am
by Thadrin
I use Firefox too...
Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2004 4:56 am
by Darkson
Someone email him and get him to remove it! (Oh, and Avant here.)
Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2004 6:26 pm
by JenniRP70
I have removed the offending image from his signature.
JohnnyP
Posted: Wed Apr 28, 2004 10:16 am
by Fronko
... und so sprach Zarathustra ...
