Firefox gamed - Drudge getting around Firefox popup blocker

Greetings...

I noticed that somehow, some sites are getting around the Firefox popup
blocker. It's happened twice now, this time on a link from
drudgereportarchives.com to editorandpublisher.com - a 4inkjets.com popup
window comes up in a separate window.

I know, ghastly! Having browsed for months now without being brute force
gangbanged by ads and popup nonsense, it's quite a shock to have to babysit
my web browser lest it crapalanche the taskbar.

Anyone see anything similar, or know if this is a known sneak around the
Firefox popup blocker that will be addressed with a release?

Thanks...

Venger

 

Wow, this is new. Oh wait, no it's not. BTW, AdBlock can block it.

 

I saw that with Mozilla 1.7.3 but not yet with FF 1.0

 

A-ha ... maybe that's why ... I installed Ad Block.

 

Any idea what mechanism is being used to circumvent the normal popup
prevention? Are you stating AdBlock can block it merely by entering the
domain in question, or is there another function which will prevent such
pop-ups regardless of the target domain?

Venger

 

I can't get it to popup on my computer with Firefox 1.0, so I can't find
what you need to block. Whenever the popup appears, open AdBlock and
check the list of items to block; it's a script doing that popup.
Apparently Firefox 1.0 blocks that popup.

 

I use Firefox 1.0 also, and I've been all over that page and cannot get
anything to pop up.
As Brian rightly says, Firefox is blocking the scripts used.

Maybe you should check for any internal Adware/Software that maybe
generating the "pop-ups".

 

On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 15:09:54 GMT, "Charles"

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I've never had a po pup on Drudge. I'm also using 1.0.

 

I didn't get any popups w/ the links you refer to, but I've been getting a lot
of them lately elsewhere. I have no idea how they're being generated. I have
the normal Javascript popup blocker turned on, and it has worked like a charm
until very recently.

Matt O.

 

I heard it was by clicking on a link that both goes to the requested
page *and* opens a pop-up, or something like that, if I remember
correctly. I didn't follow the story closely, though, so I may be wrong.

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Well, I found my problem. It wasn't Firefox. It was a new spyware/adware bug
called SearchAssistant, which apparently has been spreading like wildfire the
last few days. The actual files go by several different names, and not all the
security sites are up to date with the latest info. But the popular
spyware/adware eliminators, Spybot S&D, Spyware Blaster, and AdAware will take
care of it. After updating and running these, I got rid of it last night.

Since then I've been to some sites where I had been experiencing the popups, and
I'm not getting them anymore.

So if you're having mysterious popup problems, check this one out.

Matt O.