Seedkum Aladeem wrote:
I would assume that the OK button is itself a link, which will probably take you to some site advertising crappy Windows "protection" software (this is reminiscent of those cheesy Mafia films where two guys with black suits and carnations in their buttonholes walk into a shop and say "We think you need protection").On Wednesday 19 February 2003 11:32 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote:On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 05:52, Seedkum Aladeem wrote:Hi, I was surfing some web sites last night using Konqueror and I warning window popped up saying that something or other "has an unauthorized link to my machine". What does that mean? is it a virus or a hack attack or what? Thanx, SeedkumThat "pop-up" was an advertisement - aimed at Windows users - or really, anyone that is dumb enough to click the link in the window. It's a highly illegal means by which to advertise - but it IS an advertisement. With the amount of surfing that I do, I get those incessant buggers often - and they suck. You're running linux - no one's just going to "link" to your machine...not unless you set it up, configure it and administer it.
The pop-up window did not show me any link to click. The pop-up had only an "OK" button. Is that how it would show up on Windows? or does Windows pop-up show a URL it asks you to click on? The pop-up appeared to me like a warning pop-up from the operating system (LM9.0).
Silly popups and banner ads like these, or spam advertising antivirus software, just give me a warm feeling. Sometimes running Linux is like sitting in a well-insulated, double-glazed house watching the storm raging outside.
Sir Robin
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Robin Turner
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