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patrickgeekhack:
Does anyone get a new browser window popping up and going to easyseek4u.info when visiting geekhack.org? This started to happen about 5 minutes ago when I went to geekhack.org using Safari 4 for Mac. I don't get this windows if I use Camino or FireFox.

itlnstln:
I got a redirect one time today, but I don't know if that was because I might have accidently clicked one of the ads or something.  That's weird, though. Spyware, maybe? ;)

patrickgeekhack:

--- Quote from: itlnstln;98660 ---I got a redirect one time today, but I don't know if that was because I might have accidently clicked one of the ads or something.  That's weird, though. Spyware, maybe? ;)
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I know for a fact that I did not click on any link. I don't if it's Spyware since I'm using a Mac. I know that Mac are not immune to attact, but so far, I have not come across Spyware for Mac. The weird thing is that FireFox does not have this problem, nor does Camino (based on Mozilla).

itlnstln:
Sorry, the spyware comment was just smart-a*s .  I am not sure what could have caused it, though.  Maybe one of the ads that was being fed had some malicious script in it.

patrickgeekhack:

--- Quote from: itlnstln;98668 ---Sorry, the spyware comment was just smart-a*s .  I am not sure what could have caused it, though.  Maybe one of the ads that was being fed had some malicious script in it.
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I took your comment seriously because Spyware or code could be the only possible explanation for this. I thought I applied the patch from Apple for a Java vulnerability, but when I checked again, there was one waiting to be applied. The problem went away after that.

Because Apple was taking too long to fix that problem, I disable Java in Safari. I enabled it again after I thought I had applied the fix. This was when I started experiencing this problem.

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