[ale] OT: spam

[Wandered Inn]

Just found a nasty twist on spam.  I was attempting to visit the ietf
web site and went to www.ietf.com rather than www.ietf.org.  I
immediately noticed my error, and changed the url, but there appears to
be an ugly side effect of my visit to ietf.com.  That is, the ietf.com
site opened up a small netscape window in the bottom right of my screen
which I didn't notice.  Then every few minutes, a new Netscape window
would pop up with some sort of spam.  I'd kill the window and another
would immediately pop up.  I'd kill that one and another would pop up a
few minutes later.  This kept going until I happened to notice the
little window in the bottom corner.  If I move the window, it would
always force itself to the bottom, so the first time I thought it just
died, but then I received another popup spam.  I found the little window
again, and resized it to a larger window.  I then attempted to 'view
source' but the right mouse button would not bring up the source
window.  When I released the mouse button, the window resized itself to
the small window and moved back to the bottom right corner of my screen.

Pretty slick spamming if you ask me.

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