I disagree. Initially, the image used in that popup actually comes from a different server, but that's trivial. What I see as a bigger issue is that blocking the image from the server leaves the user with an empty div block covering the page, and blocking the site serving the div content could essentially render the div 'uncloseable'. Of course, this is more along the lines of browseability, and does not seem to have any very obvious security implications above and beyond what can be served via a page without the annoying <div>.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charles Richmond Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 7:48 AM To: Dave King Cc: Full Disclosure; James Woodcock Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] A Popup! In Mozilla! Add the following to adblock http://2-spyware.com/images/* On Jul 21, 2004, at 1:44 AM, Dave King wrote: > This isn't a normal "popup" in that it doesn't open a new browser > window. All they're doing is placing this great animated gif over > the middle of the page using absolute positioning in the DIV tag. > Notice that it looks like an IE window even in Firefox. Really this > is a sneaky trick that is pretty annoying. I think this type of ad > placement is going to be hard to block since most of the time absolute > positioning images is just part of the normal page and has nothing to > do with ads, even though I guess at one time pop-ups were used > legitimately almost exclusively. At least this page seems to be > thoughtful enough to only display the ad the first time you visit it. > Tricky little devils aren't they (and getting trickier all the time). > Charles Richmond Implemented Integrated Systems Corporation http://www.iisc.com O/S, I18N, Systems Development, Process and Integration Providers [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] YIM:cmriisc http://www.iisc.com/cmr 7B West St., Somerville, Ma. USA 02144 (781) 389 9777 _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
