[ale] OT: FireFox, pop-up blocking

[David Corbin]

On Wednesday 16 February 2005 10:04 pm, Geoffrey wrote:
> David Corbin wrote:
> > My wife uses firefox (of course).  In general it's popup ad blocking has
> > worked very well, but lately she's had a series of "Anti-spyware" ads
> > that seem to leak through.  I checked and she doesn't have any sites that
> > are allowed to do pop-ups.  Unfortunately, the pop-up looks a lot like a
> > dialog so it's very misleading.
> >
> > Has anybody else seen this?
>
> I don't think it's a popup.  I think it's either a trojan that came in
> with email or software.  Has she installed any software lately?
> Unfortunately, even some, so called legit software installs stuff
> without telling you.

No, she doesn't install software, and she's well aware of "what not to do" 
with emails.  Plus the box was very clearly a firefox-like window.