Beavah 205 Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 Yah, anybody else have a pop-up series from performanceoptimizer.com show up while they were browsin' Scouter.Com? I've gotten this two or three times now. Starts with a fake error message modal-like window, then wipes my scouter.com window to take me to their site. Can we block 'em? Beavah Link to post Share on other sites
scottteng 11 Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 Maybe your system has picked up some malware I have never seen any popups on this site of course I run mozilla with the popup blocker enabled and run spybot search and destroy checker on a regular basis along with antivirus and firewall. Link to post Share on other sites
Vicki 11 Posted April 15, 2008 Share Posted April 15, 2008 I'm with scottteng - sounds like classic malware to me. I, too, run quite a bit of software to protect from such things. Vicki Link to post Share on other sites
Oak Tree 15 Posted April 16, 2008 Share Posted April 16, 2008 I just received the same error message once in the last couple of days. I suppose it's theoretically possible that Beavah and I somehow have picked up the same malware from somewhere else, but that doesn't seem like it would be my first guess. Link to post Share on other sites
Beavah 205 Posted April 16, 2008 Author Share Posted April 16, 2008 Yah, I'm mac based on firefox, with popup blocking enabled and a full firewall. No malware present, though they did place more cookies than an average Girl Scout, eh? This was a cute javascript manipulation that came through a scouter.com page. I sent their order clearinghouse and ISP a legal nastygram when I couldn't find business contact information on the firm itself. Maybe that'll fix it. Beavah Link to post Share on other sites
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