Obnoxious Java Ad on Scouter.Com

[Beavah]

Yah, anybody else have a pop-up series from performanceoptimizer.com show up while they were browsin' Scouter.Com? I've gotten this two or three times now.

 

Starts with a fake error message modal-like window, then wipes my scouter.com window to take me to their site.

 

Can we block 'em?

 

Beavah

 

[scottteng]

Maybe your system has picked up some malware I have never seen any popups on this site of course I run mozilla with the popup blocker enabled and run spybot search and destroy checker on a regular basis along with antivirus and firewall.

[Vicki]

I'm with scottteng - sounds like classic malware to me. I, too, run quite a bit of software to protect from such things.

 

Vicki

[Oak Tree]

I just received the same error message once in the last couple of days. I suppose it's theoretically possible that Beavah and I somehow have picked up the same malware from somewhere else, but that doesn't seem like it would be my first guess.

[Beavah]

Yah, I'm mac based on firefox, with popup blocking enabled and a full firewall. No malware present, though they did place more cookies than an average Girl Scout, eh?

 

This was a cute javascript manipulation that came through a scouter.com page.

 

I sent their order clearinghouse and ISP a legal nastygram when I couldn't find business contact information on the firm itself. Maybe that'll fix it.

 

Beavah