Re: [OT] Spam Tabs in Browser

Just happened today.

Click on Register Now and a spam tab opens. If you close it, your
registration page is there.

http://youtoocancycle.com

Regards,
Rony.

On Mon, May 21, 2018, 12:11 PM Rajeev R. K. <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, 21 May 2018 at 12:09, Dhruva Lokegaonkar <dhruva-22dYR/[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > I haven't seen those on clean pages but I've had those on before on a
> > few "content providers of questionable legality". What a lot of sites do
> > is add a invisible box in front of the whole page which links to an
> > advertisment pop up. Maybe one of the embeded advertisments is able to
> > use that technique.
> >
> > I don't think it's a virus or a rouge extention since it's happening on
> > both your phone and PC. Maybe someone else might have a better Idea
> >
> >
> > On 05/21/2018 12:02 PM, Rony Bill wrote:
> > > Hello Friends,
> > >
> > > Off late I have observed that when visiting some websites (Clean ones),
> > > especially where a form is to be filled, a spam advts tab opens in the
> > > browser. It happens in Android as well as Ubuntu in Firefox. In my
> Ubuntu
> > > laptop, I was on a sports shopping site and just when I clicked on Buy
> > Now,
> > > it opened a spam page, even playing an advt video.
> > >
> > > What is this new phenomenon happening?
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Rony.
> >
> >
> Some sample URL's where you see such behaviour might be helpful, to let us
> diagnose the issue.
>
> Thanks and Regards
>
> R. K. Rajeev
> Ph : +91-9323802020
>
>
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