Re: [OT] Spam Tabs in Browser

On 21-05-2018 13:11, Rony Bill wrote:
> 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.

Didn't happen with on Firefox. On clicking "Register Now", the following 
page opened in new tab:

http://youtoocanrun.com/races/get-cycloned-the-smart-commute-way/

No spam pages. I'm using MTNL broadband.

Rajen.


> 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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