I'm accustomed to pop-up windows on various Web sites, and get a fair number of blank pop-ups. Typically the pop-ups, whether blank or not, appear on commercial or quasi-commercial Web sites. Yesterday, though, I got one pop-up which struck me as unusual. I was, if I remember correctly, on an Aussie bank/brokerage's site; I entered the following into my browser (Galeon 1.3.5 running in RedHat 7.3/Gnome 2/Ximian Desktop 2/kernel 2.4.20-20.7):
http://www.cdhb.govt.nz/chlabs which is the Web address of Canterbury Health Laboratories. What I got was, full-screen, http://goto.trafficmultiplier.com/1011729 which invited me to "plug in" to "trafficmultiplier.sm". (the CDHB Web page was minimised). I was able to reproduce this behaviour by returning to the Aussie site and reentering the CDHB site. I've checked with the CDHB Webmaster, who stated this was not due to their Web page, but rather was due to "spyware ... on my PC". I thought Galeon, as a non-Windows-based browser, should not be susceptible to spyware (or at least, that spyware purveyors didn't bother with Linux versions). I don't play online games and I've run chkrootkit which reveals nothing untoward. Any thoughts? =====Andrew
