[ale] OT: FireFox, pop-up blocking

[esoteric at 3times25.net (Geoffrey)]

David Corbin wrote:
> My wife uses firefox (of course).  In general it's popup ad blocking has 
> worked very well, but lately she's had a series of "Anti-spyware" ads that 
> seem to leak through.  I checked and she doesn't have any sites that are 
> allowed to do pop-ups.  Unfortunately, the pop-up looks a lot like a dialog 
> so it's very misleading.
> 
> Has anybody else seen this?

I don't think it's a popup.  I think it's either a trojan that came in 
with email or software.  Has she installed any software lately? 
Unfortunately, even some, so called legit software installs stuff 
without telling you.

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Until later, Geoffrey