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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Weird pop-up "ad" in Safari
Date: 4 Mar 2014 22:28:54 GMT
Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
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On 2014-03-04, Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> wrote:
>
> In article <bnks64Fsd20U2@mid.individual.net>,
> Jolly Roger  <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>>
>>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.
>
> In other words, Earthlink allows their adserver company to run
> Javascript dialogs that stop users in their tracks until they
> click "OK" or force-quit the browser? Wonderful.

It wouldn't surprise me. It's happened many times before with various web
providers/sites.

>>AdBlock for Safari probably would have blocked it.
>
> Thanks, I figured it probably would. Clearly this wasn't actual
> malware (I don't run Windows on my MacBook), but this was the
> first time I had seen a pop-up that didn't have OS X control
> buttons (close, minimize, maximize), just that darn "OK" button.
> That was a bit scary.

If you're ever really worried about it, you can just force-quit th web
browser so that no clicks are required.

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