Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jolly Roger Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Something not particularly dangerous (?) is annoying the heck out of me Date: 9 Apr 2017 19:36:16 GMT Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: <9a19aed1-ec38-4345-9019-fa4a46626b44@googlegroups.com> X-Trace: individual.net qRdYk5NB34/4vWDZfo06QQ83u7XqvfQibuv6TLS0W9V589gA5E Cancel-Lock: sha1:+QFo0IqG2KMVdkrs/su57wIHt/w= Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Darwin) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:103931 On 2017-04-09, Lewis wrote: > In message Jolly Roger wrote: >> On 2017-04-09, Lewis wrote: >>> In message Jolly Roger wrote: >>> >>>> What OS version are you running? It's possible you've installed some >>>> software that came bundled with adware. Run MalwareBytes and get rid of >>>> anything it identifies. And in the future, be more careful about what >>>> you download and where you download it. Use safe computing practices >>>> (including keeping your system up to date, and refraining from >>>> downloading software from untrustworthy sources) and this won't happen. >>> >>> Good advice in general, but I don't think Trip Advisor is a malware >>> site. > >> I didn't say it was a malware site; and he can have adware installed >> without Trip Advisor being a malware site. > > It would be weird for malware to be sending him to a trip advisor > domain. Adware that sends someone to a site that advertises hotels and so on? Say it isn't so! : D -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR