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How do I disable the SM coupon pop-up thingy?
ChancyRat
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This popped up in lightbox mode when I was viewing someone else's site, exact URL:
http://rosscollins.smugmug.com/Daily-blog/n-6j4Fh/i-5LRPXVH/A.
Honestly this is horrifying in my mind, that my visitors would be subjected to this most ugly and intrusive pop-up.
How do I disable this from occurring on my site?
http://rosscollins.smugmug.com/Daily-blog/n-6j4Fh/i-5LRPXVH/A.
Honestly this is horrifying in my mind, that my visitors would be subjected to this most ugly and intrusive pop-up.
How do I disable this from occurring on my site?
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SmugMug does not place ads or pop-ups on it's site. This looks like it is part of a web browser add-on/extension or your computer has been infected with AdWare/Malware.
I checked the URL you provided and I am not seeing this ad on my end.
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I'm seeing the referring URL as a link to a Dgrin thread, although it is presented with a good deal of verbiage being added somewhere.
Well, my computer is clean except for some various tracking cookies, so with updates and clearing cookies, I no longer see that nasty thing on the sample URL.
And that was Chrome!
I did have one 'video downloader' extension that I can't remember why I installed it, it is GONE, and perhaps has to be the answer.... Except if you saw a dgrin URL... ???
Very relieved that was not SM!
http://malwaretips.com/blogs/price-companion-deal-finder-removal/
It was probably part of the video downloading extension you mentioned for Chrome, so I guess you've removed it now.
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Great sleuthing work, 007dude. How *did* you figure that out???
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Good grief. Well, google-searching I know to do, but I would never have thought such benign search terms would nail the sucker. Thanks.
Anyway, this seemed nasty.
I chose an external program, Microsoft Safety Scanner (which took 2.5 hours to run), found one malware and removed it. I can confirm this was exactly the problem because of the pop-up example cited, of a window telling me I needed to update Java, even though my Java was up to date. (I never clicked that link, but the damage was done by then anyway.)
TrojanDownloader:Win32/Tugspay.A
http://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/threat/encyclopedia/entry.aspx?name=TrojanDownloader%3aWin32%2fTugspay.A#tab=2
Because this information told me that other programs could have been downloaded, and I didn't have any trust that I was clean, I did a reinstall.
Moral of the story: if you get this pop-up about a SM coupon ... it might be worth thinking about the worst case scenario.