mac keeper?

If all you had was a browser popup asking for you to install or download MacKeeper and you cancelled it, then it is not installed. We saw that on one of our Macs (don't remember which web site it was on), but all we did was tell it no. Nothing was downloaded (no files with Zeobit or MacKeeper anywhere on the drive).

I did not 'install' anything, I just 'X' out of it. I did do a search for MacKeeper and found nothing, but did not do a search for Zeobits. Will try that.

Mildred

Hi Mike,

Did as you instructed and nothing was found w/either Mackeeper or Zeobit.

I think I dodged a bullet today 🙂

Mildred

Great! Yeah, if it was just a pop up then that shouldn't be an issue. If you are using Safari, you can block pop-ups by clicking on the Safari menu at the top and then choosing block pop-ups.

This was most probably not a pop-up, but a 'pop-under'. This is a web page that opens automatically when you click another web page. It doesn;t look like a web page - it looks like a pop-up, which is what confuses many.

The important difference is that a pop-up, being a piece of code, can be blocked by your browser's anti-popup software. A popunder cannot. Provided you don't click on this nuisance ( apart from closing the window), nothing bad can happen.

The popunder is launched by the 'parent' webpage because the owner of the parent has been paid a fee.

This kind of marketing is extremely obnoxious, because it pretends to be a sofware alert rather than an advert. The mere fact that so many on this forum, and presumably millions elsewhere, think that this is a popup, shows the extent and effectiveness of this pretense.

pete

Since I started using GlimmerBlocker, I have not been bothered by popups or popunders.

Now that I have installed ClickTo Flash, the rest of the obnoxious adverts are greatly reduced to the point that it almost pleasent to suft the web again.

Allan

Popups and pop-unders are identical. They're both called in the parent page you're on. The only difference is where they are placed in relation to the main web page. And as far as paying a fee somehow being the difference? Both popups and pop-unders are advertising, so both of them paid a fee to the owner of the web site.

Kurt, that sounds like useful info. If they are identical, why doesn't Safari's Pop-up blocker block pop-unders?

I didn't try to suggest that the fee payable was different for both genres - but thanks for highlighting the similarity.

As a point of interest, I can add toolber, bookmarks bar etc to a pop-under revealing it as just another web page.

Can I do the same to pop-ups?

pete

Unfortunately, popups and pop-unders are a constant war. People find and provide tools to block them, and the people who want you to see them find new ways around the blocks.

I've been having great results with the free AdBlock. Haven't see one since.

I used AdBlock but was still getting the ads. So I switched over to GlimmerBlocker. Now I don't get them.

Allan

I used GlimmerBlocker for a long time, but had to switch to something else when it would completely prevent certain legitimate web sites I visit from loading. Photoshop User Group's site for one. I couldn't see a way in GlimmerBlocker's prefs to enter a list of preferred sites so it would ignore it.

So far I have not had that problem with it.

I don't visit the PhotoShop Users Group so I am not able to comment on that one.

Allan

kurt, I've just installed adblock to reduce ads on FB and checking snopes.com, I see no popunders for the first time :-)

cool! thanks

pete

There does appear to be recent news regarding viruses on Mac.....

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/tech-news/flashback-the-end-of-ma c-users-blithe-indifference-to-web-viruses/article2397330/

Yes, there's been a few reports like that the last few days. Funny that these so called security experts can't tell the difference between a virus and a Trojan.