Possibly malicious popups

[corona]

I've been getting these popups on NS recently. Mostly they'd happen on the splash page when I click to enter the home page. I just got one clicking on a forum.

Notice the URL. Something is redirecting an NS link to open the popup as that NS link.

I've posted about them in another thread but I don't think that got any attention.

They're flash based if that helps.

They don't appear with adblock enabled, so if it's a problem on your end let me know when it's solved and adblock will be turned off again.

 

[corona]

yea I thought it might be. but the fact that it only ever happened on NS and that it doesn't happen when adblock is enabled leaves me to believe otherwise.

 

[corona]

well it was more simple than that. guess I should have researched first before assuming. I hadn't updated my flash player in a while. It was an exploit found with the older version I had running, soon as I updated it doesn't happen any more. still strange it only ever happened on NS, even with adblock disabled everywhere else.

 

[Dustin.]

I just got an REI pop up that covered two full scrolled pages. NS's popups are extremely annoying, I can see why so many people run Adblock anyway.

 

[corona]

if anyone gets the same thing I had, couple tidbits of info:

-make sure flash is up to date. They stopped coming up once my flash player was updated.

-reset browser to default state. perhaps not necessary, but I did it anyways. this was recommended for these specific popups.

-not a virus. did thorough scans with 3 different well known virus scanners, found nothing. plus it stopped after flash update.

-as far as I can tell they're coming in through a legit content delivery provider (Akamai) using some sort of flash exploit that was possibly fixed with latest update.