various pop ups in ie 9 popup

Tomas01 · ‎11-08-2009

Some times when I go to a website to look for something, quizbeginlive.com or fungamequiz.com popsup and says oh you've won a prize.

I have vista , ie 9 no norton tool bar still and id safe wont work on it , has anyone else seen these popups on random websites

Thanks

Tomas01

DistEd2 · ‎08-11-2011

Hi, Tomas01,

This sort of thing is called a "browser hijack," and has gotten pretty common, unfortunately. Not technically malware, so Norton isn't especially aggressive against it--but it's annoying as all getout nonetheless.

superantispyware comes highly recommended in these situations, as both effective and compatible/non-conflicting with your Norton protection....

RoloX2 · ‎10-14-2011

DistEd2 wrote:
This sort of thing is called a "browser hijack," and has gotten pretty common, unfortunately. Not technically malware, so Norton isn't especially aggressive against it-

You can't be serious. I'd say subversion is malicious.

Security software needs to recognise what users consider malicious, not lawyers.

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DistEd2 · ‎08-11-2011

Serious as a heart attack, Rolo. Security software can't do its users much good if it ends up owned by the grey hats because it violated their rights. We could all be a whole lot safer if the cops could just shoot the burglar, too...but that starts to sound a whole lot more like Syria than America.

As these things get more widespread, and sidle up closer to the line (and more judges start having experience of them themselves) the legal landscape may sort itself out. And don't forget, if "We, the People" don't feel like the law is offering us enough protection, we have representatives whom we can petition to pass new law, to better define our rights to digital security. That might not do much to deter scammers based overseas, but it would at least keep them from showing up in our courts to use our own legal protections against us....

In the meantime, we have niche markets. The big security software vendors like Norton and McAfee and Kaspersky and AVG can protect us against the software that is written to actually cause us direct harm: malware. And superantispyware and the like can take out the adware and PUPs. In the words of Sir Winston Churchill, democracy is the worst possible system...except for anything else anybody's come up with!

yank · ‎12-02-2009

@ Tomas01,

Tomas01 wrote:
I have vista , ie 9 no norton tool bar still and id safe wont work on it , has anyone else seen these popups on random websites

If you would like to try to fix this problem, please start a new thread and we 'll probably be able to help you out.

DistEd2 · ‎08-11-2011

Good catch, yank--I originally interpreted that as wondering why Tomas' Norton browser integration wasn't stopping the popups--but it does appear he's not seeing the browser integration active.

Tomas, have you checked to make sure the Norton toolbar is enabled? We've been seeing things like browser upgrades breaking that connection lately, so that's one possibility. Do you have any other real-time security products running on your computer, or leftover installs like a MacAfee that came on your machine?

SendOfJive · ‎02-07-2009

yank wrote:
Tomas01 wrote:
I have vista , ie 9 no norton tool bar still and id safe wont work on it , has anyone else seen these popups on random websites

If you would like to try to fix this problem, please start a new thread and we 'll probably be able to help you out.

Tomas01 was using the 64-bit version when he originally posted the IE9 issue here. It is unclear from that thread if he is now using the 32-bit version or not.

As to the popups he is seeing, they are probably being launched by JavaScript on the websites, and are probably part of the sites themselves, Both sites redirect to several other sites when you visit them. For example, the quizbeginlive site redirects to surveyfindonline.com and quizstartweb.com, and the fungamequiz site redirects to greatwebquiz.com and internetquizworld.com. These are the kinds of questionable promotional sites where one would expect to see "You are a winner!"-type popups. I think the issue is visiting these sorts of sites with active scripting in the browser enabled, rather than anything having to do with Norton or malware. Certainly if malicious JavaScript redirects to a site hosting a driveby download, Norton's IPS should detect the attack and block it. But the popups in question merely sound scammy, which is a consumer issue, not a security issue.

Tomas01 · ‎11-08-2009

My norton tool bar says enabled. norton 360 v5 the latest. I will try to go back and check for previous ones still on there. I used to have Superantispyware, and malaware bytes took it off computer went to slow. I will check into other things on my computer and get back and thanks for all the replys will keep U posted.

Been off line due to cable issues with the tv, now fixed can focus more on this.

Thanks

Tomas01

SendOfJive · ‎02-07-2009

The easiest way to check this would be to temporarily set the Security slider for the Internet Zone in IE Internet Options to its highest setting and revisit the sites. If no popups appear, then you will know that the popups were being generated by the sites themselves, rather than a nuisance program installed on your PC.

DistEd2 · ‎08-11-2011

OK, we may be getting somewhere. If you had the paid versions of either malwarebytes or superantispyware (the free versions are OK because they lack the real-time scanning components that don't play well with others) then there may be "debris" left over from their removal if you simply uninstalled them from Windows Control Panel that could be interfering with your Norton software.

If either is still installed, we've almost certainly found the culprit (for the toolbar part of your problem) so let us know. We can walk you through running their respective removal tools, as needed, then removing and reinstalling your Norton software if neccessary, to get you back in business.