Re: [OT] Spam Tabs in Browser

Darshit Shah <[email protected]> Mon, 21 May 2018 09:48:22 +0200
Newsgroups	gmane.user-groups.linux.mumbai
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It's almost fishy the number of scripts that site tries to load.

The registration page wants to load >20 scripts.

* Rony Bill <[email protected]> [180521 09:42]:
> 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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