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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Weird pop-up "ad" in Safari
Date: 4 Mar 2014 02:30:28 GMT
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On 2014-03-04, Patty Winter <patty1@sonic.net> wrote:
> A friend was visiting for the weekend and used my old MacBook in
> my living room this morning to try to check her Earthlink webmail.
> She logged in via Safari and got to her inbox, but then a pop-up
> window appeared that said:
>
> http://www.winupdatevideos.com
> ERROR. Windows has detected that you must update Java immediately.
>
> She set the computer down and waited for me to get up so I could
> decide what to do next.
>
> What was weird about this window was that it had an active "OK" 
> button. That is, I couldn't do anything else in Safari; I had
> to force quit it. 
>
> I rarely use Safari, so I don't have pop-up blockers installed
> as I do with Firebox, but what kind of pop-up can actually 
> become the active window in Safari and not let you proceed
> until you click OK? (Or force-quit the program as I did.)

It was probably a JavaScript dialog, and probably came from an ad server
that the web-based email host she was using displayed on their page.
AdBlock for Safari probably would have blocked it.

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JR