I don't expect you can read dutch (or the babelfish translation ;-) ), but this news portal is very explicit in that popups/popunders will be shown when using the counters:

    http://www.webwereld.nl/articles/37124
    http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pagecontent?lp=nl_en&url=""

And the item for today:

    http://www.webwereld.nl/articles/37156
    http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pagecontent?lp=nl_en&url=""

Martijn


On 9/7/05, Gwyn Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Sorry, but I remain unconvinced - I've still not managed to persude it
to show me one though, even with IE security set right down, whereas
the link I posted *did* refer to http://www.munky.com as one of the 5
URLs the exploit was setting.

/Gwyn

On 07/09/05, Martijn Dashorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In this case, it is most probably the new owner of the nedstat counter on
> the frontpage that is creating the popups. I'll remove the counters, and try
> to find an alternative.
>
>  According to the media in the Netherlands, the license for dutch people
> states that no popups and advertisement is used on pages using the counters,
> but the english license does have that requirement.
>
>  I find it unacceptable that the mere usage of the counter shows popups on
> the counted site. I can live with popups/unders when you look at the
> statistics, but not on the counted site.
>
>  Martijn
>
>
>
> On 9/7/05, Gwyn Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > [Sent direct as well]
> >
> > Michael,
> >     Could you please do us a favour and check your system with some of
> > the following and report the results?
> >
> > Spybot S&D -
> http://www.safer-networking.org/?page=download
> > Ad-aware - http://www.lavasoft.de/
> > -
> http://housecall.trendmicro.com/housecall/start_corp.asp
> >
> > The reason is that there are reports [e.g.
> >
> http://www.excedra.com/ipccouncil/justin/viewoffender.php?f_id=58]
> > that the popups come from infected PC's that have a Browser Helper
> > Object that scans the content of websites visited for keywords in
> > order to open pop-up advertising when and if they are detected on a
> > site.  It's possible that Wicket is triggering some of the keyword
> > searches.
> >
> > /Gwyn
> >
> >
> > On 07/09/05, Michael Jouravlev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Nope. I have No Script installed on my Firefox, and _javascript_,
> > > running the counters on wicket page, is turned off.
> > >
> > > But IE shows a popup immediately: "Do you like to see you homepage
> > > www.munky.com?" I terminated IE immediately.
> > >
> > > Please, rip out this junk.
> > >
> > > Michael.
> > >
> > > > On 06/09/05, Martijn Dashorst < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > > All,
> > > > >
> > > > >  Does anybody experience nasty popup's and other ad like stuff on
> the wicket
> > > > > frontpage? We use a page counter in order to track who came from
> where
> > > > > (great way of finding new blog entries on Wicket), but that counter
> has been
> > > > > taken over by an advertising company.
> > > > >
> > > > >  Apparently there have been reports of unwanted ads happening on the
> pages
> > > > > using these counters. I'd like to confirm before I remove these
> counters, as
> > > > > I use the counters on a daily basis.
> > > > >
> > > > >  Martijn


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