MacKeeper/Zerobit Pop Up ad Problem

GlimmerBlocker works wonders, sites where previously I'd get the MacKeeper pop up; I no longer see the pop ups. Two thumbs up!!!

Oh my god!

This works!

Thank you so much man! I love it.

I already got for 4 months this problem and I always need to stop safari completely!

When you find out, let me know. That pop up comes on mine and freezes up my safari. I emailed MacKeeper support and they replied that it is an advertisement and there is nothing they can do. Unbelievable. I did not download the program either. The pop up itself causes the problem. Pop up blocker is on. Restart does not help. Next is to completely reinstall the whole system with original mac disks that came with laptop. Pretty time consuming and drastic. The public should be protected from companies that abuse advertising like this.

P. S. Found additional info in forums, will try appcleaner then GlimmerBlocker. Less frustrated now. Thanks

Message was edited by: nannycandy

I get this problem:

An apparent popup advertises MacKeeper even though Safari is set to block popups.

SO I doubt that it is a pop-up.

Thankfully it doesn;t freeze my Safari

When I show the toolbar I see the following URL:

http://cdn.optmd.com/V2/86718/221654/index.html?g=AQAILNQ=&r=www.snopes.com/

Does this mean that snopes are being sponsored by MacKeeper?

pete

>>Does this mean that snopes are being sponsored by MacKeeper

No - just that whatever (dns or some app or add-on) is producing those 'pop-ups' has referenced that url, which happens to include the snopes.com part. It could say apple or microsoft & the link would still work, while notionally recording those as the referrer somewhere.

wildly enthusiastic claims though - it must be on the level.

I think it's criminally insane to create unasked-for windows to popup within the Apple customerbase when the main Apple browser is designed to block popups. MacKeeper have found a way to play the wolf while claiming to protect against wolves. :-(

Their behaviour is so suspicious that I decided not to register with them to post on their forums.

Is there a way to complain to Apple?

pete

Pete - you're getting the popups - I'm not clear if you have or had used mackeeper ?

I have never had or used MacKeeper

pete

glad to hear it - if you're getting these popups from various sites, rather than just a few obvious culprits, I'd suspect your dns servers, or some other add-on

my DNS is Namesco - very unlikely that they would allow this behaviour.

My Safari plugins are:

Exposer

Coda Notes

Shortly

Webbla

any ring a bell?

pete

I don't know any of those, for good or bad. If the pop-ups are frequent enough, should be easy to track down the source. Start in a new user account & then you can possibly exclude any safari extensions or other 'per-user' add-ons. If it is one account, extensions are easy to start with, by switching them all off in Safari preferences.

finally got to the bottom of this, if only in my case, but I suspect that the principle applies to everyone else here. <crosses fingers>

Snopes allow sponsors to plant 'pop-unders'.

http://www.snopes.com/info/faq.asp#pop

and search for 'pop-unders'

hope this helps

pete

I see the MacKeeper ads everywhere but have never gotten a pop up or pop under. Could using Open DNS numbers be a help in this matter? Their DNS numbers, for the average joe, are free to use.

http://www.opendns.com/

RM

Don't post links to viruses.

Sophos is a good antivirus for free on osx.

Also, not just clicking random software as soon as you see if helps too.

Far to easy to download "find any file", which in itself sounds gravely suspicious.