I have had the same experience recently. The software "promoted" was Performance Optimizer. Don't remember the site, but as with you, Lee, quitting the site was the only out.
ctw On Nov 11, 2007, at 11:11 AM, Lee Larson wrote: Dear Person: On two different occasions during the past week, while viewing your Web site, www.huffingtonpost.com, advertising has hijacked my Web browser. It is a JavaScript bringing up a dialog for a product called Performance Optimizer. The script creates a normal-looking dialog box with a scary message intimating that my computer is infected by malware. Clicking "Cancel" on the dialog results in another dialog telling me that some software will be downloaded onto my system and I should "click RUN or OPEN" to optimize my system performance. The only way I found to get out of this stream of dialogs was to force quit my browser. This is a despicable and dishonest advertising method. It is despicable because it is trying to prey upon the less-informed among your visitors by scaring them into buying a product. It is dishonest because I am running the latest Safari Web browser with Mac OS X version 10.5 and the software your advertiser is selling only works with Windows. Even if I had malware on my machine that software could not detect or remove it.. Sincerely, Lee Larson _______________________________________________ The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will be November 27 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. Posting address: MacGroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup Carl Wimmer ctwimmer at mac.com
