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Old January 26th, 2003, 06:12 AM
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ODP Now Has A Pop-Up
Oooo nooooo

When I visit http://dmoz.org I get a pop-under. Is this just some shareware / adware thing I have installed, or can someone confirm this terrible news???
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Re: ODP Now Has A Pop-Up
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Oooo nooooo

When I visit http://dmoz.org I get a pop-under. Is this just some shareware I have installed, or can someone confirm this terrible news???



Hi Darrin

No, I can´t confirm it. The site looks normal, or what you understand under pop-under?
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Old January 26th, 2003, 06:23 AM
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Everytime I got to the dmoz.org page I am getting a pop-under window for printers.

Here is the source of the window that loads:

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<html><head><title>Special Offer</title></head><body onLoad="setTimeout('this.focus()', 5000)">
<center><IFRAME NORESIZE="NORESIZE" FRAMEBORDER="0" WIDTH=120 HEIGHT=600 MARGINWIDTH="0" MARGINHEIGHT="0" SCROLLING="NO" SRC="http://ads.flashtrack.net/v3/show_ad.php?iframe|b|600|1FF10EF5-30C0-4E09-BAFF-7502940E3F6A|25001|0|http://dmoz.org/"></IFRAME>
</center></body>
</html>


And this is the image that loads in the window:
http://www.printpal.com/images/120x600.gif
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Old January 26th, 2003, 06:27 AM
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nothing like this on my side. Must be your intallation.

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install Spybot it will remove the spyware.
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I wonder why only on the ODP page it happens then, also. I can normally see those spybots running under the "Processes" tab in the Windows Task Manager in Windows XP ... But I'm not seeing any strange processes right now.
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I wonder why only on the ODP page it happens then, also. I can normally see those spybots running under the "Processes" tab in the Windows Task Manager in Windows XP ... But I'm not seeing any strange processes right now.


I am not an expert but the message you receive ads flashback.net is defenitely something spyish

http://www.ads.flashtrack.net/

if you have adaware beware they are out of date and useless, I had adaware and changed to spybot which tracked 76 culprits that adaware missed.
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just a quick add on this site may explain what you have they track you when you use major search engines
http://www.ads.flashtrack.net/mediabuying.php
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Sure enough ..

In my program files directory there was a directory called "flt" and inside of this were 2 files... they were the culprits...

Thing is I seen them about a month ago but I've never seen any popup's before. I urge eveyone to go look now for thos crappy thing, I've never allowed anythignt o be installed, so how on earth did they get there??

Please excuse, although I'm good at SEO / web marketing, I've never ventured into this area... anyone able to point me at a URL with a lot of good reading on this matter, and how can I fight back.. I've always know it was an issue, and I have never been effected by it before because I'm always behind at least 3 firewalls at any one time!!
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Sure enough ..

In my program files directory there was a directory called "flt" and inside of this were 2 files... they were the culprits...

Thing is I seen them about a month ago but I've never seen any popup's before. I urge eveyone to go look now for thos crappy thing, I've never allowed anythignt o be installed, so how on earth did they get there??

Please excuse, although I'm good at SEO / web marketing, I've never ventured into this area... anyone able to point me at a URL with a lot of good reading on this matter, and how can I fight back.. I've always know it was an issue, and I have never been effected by it before because I'm always behind at least 3 firewalls at any one time!!


The only thing you can do is to keep your anti spyware up to date, every time you visit a site with banner on you sure get a cookie placed on your system!

Not sure if you did do the spybot (or similar) check, but believe you me you will have thousands of cookies all over your place.

just like anti virus software, keep updating regular the anti spysoftware and you will be most probably never bothered again.

just adding quickly a forum with experts on that matter
http://www.net-integration.net/cgi-bin/forums/ikonboard.cgi

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Yeah I know all about cookies n' stuff like that, it's how the flt.dll file got there that interests me, I would have needed to gove some program permission to do that I would have though!
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Hi

Yeah I know all about cookies n' stuff like that, it's how the flt.dll file got there that interests me, I would have needed to gove some program permission to do that I would have though!


Most probably by either dowloading or installing a free software.
(that would be my guess, as they do have those things in their agreement license stating,[but who reads that?])
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[quote="Darrin Ward"]they do have those things in their agreement license stating,[but who reads that?])


I hear ya .. I am notorious for clicking hat "Next >>" button before the agreement thing even loads .. prolly my own fault!
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Darrin it must be Spyware. I found this script:

2.9 GATOR UNTERMINIERT SUCHMASCHINEN
------------------------------------------
Die wegen unfairer Wettbewerbspraktiken und als Spyware bekannte
Software der Firma Gator, hängt sich als Pop-Under an
Suchmaschinen und Webverzeichnisse wie Google und Yahoo!
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http://www.at-web.de/nl/95/gt.htm
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