weird problem with the GRM site?

Just starting tonight when I come here, every minute or so my computer opens up a new window.... I'm on a Mac, using Safari, so I don't think I have a virus issue. It's just happening here, not on any other site.

Mine does it too, except a new tab with google. I hadn't noticed it was GRM, but I'm on here so often that would make sense

Firefox is blocking popups. I'm only getting it on the main GRM page, but not here in OT.

I had this happen earlier today too, but I had several tabs open at once so I didn't know for sure if it was GRM or one of the other sites doing it. I got a pop-up blocker notification and then a new tab opened with my homepage (Google).

Explorer 8, Windows XP

What choo messin' wit' Tim?

http://m.grassrootsmotorsports.com/forum/feedback/timmay-why-is-google-trying-to-pop-up-on-the-grm-s/14872/page1/

To summarize the above:

Go here: http://grassrootsmotorsports.com/media/flash/countdown/countdown_flip_config.xml

Click refresh. Continue being Dorks uninterrupted.

stuart in mn wrote: I'm on a Mac, using Safari, so I don't think I have a virus issue.

One day somebody's going to bother to write a virus for Mac and the cries of woe will echo in coffeeshops around the nation...

PS: Baxter fixed it.

I remember when Mac's were little virus vectors. Back in the days of floppy disks, late 80's, early 90's. If you saw a Mac, you just assumed it was infected. Kinko's was like Virus Central. Unix then had so many security holes in it that you avoided it too. PC's were relatively safe. Times change.

Osterkraut wrote: One day somebody's going to bother to write a virus for Mac and the cries of woe will echo in coffeeshops around the nation...

Someday it will probably happen, and he'll be the baddest of the bad among hacker circles. Macs make a juicy target: nobody's really pulled it off since OS X hit 8 1/2 years ago and Mac users are a smug and complacent lot.

But it's not going to be easy. The unix core underneath is battle-tested over 40 years on the most mission-critical systems on earth, Apple ships the OS with far fewer open attack vectors than windows, and they're MUCH quicker about responding and closing security flaws than Microsoft.

Honestly, if it were easy, someone would have done it by now, just to prove the point. Macs aren't magically immune to viruses, but they're a helluva lot better locked down.

Tim Baxter wrote: Macs make a juicy target: nobody's really pulled it off since OS X hit **8 1/2 years ago** and Mac users are a smug and complacent lot.

While the lulz factor is great, there's little practical incentive: It's not a highly popular desktop OS like Windows and it's not guarding treasure like all the Linux servers out there. Although the "target size" effect is just part of what contributes to an OS getting attacked. The OS itself is pretty secure, but Safari gets pwned regularly in hacking competitions. Luckily Apple tends to patch it pretty quickly before the Mac users spill their lattés all over their tailor-made pants

OK, you guys can knock it off now...I only mentioned what kind of computer I have to prevent the inevitable "get a Mac!" replies.

It has not caused too much of a problem for me, but every once and a while the Google page pops up out of nowhere, and the "blocking pop-ups" counter at the bottom of my screen has been building up very high numbers. Hitting refresh doesn't seem to help, although it resets to zero (where it used to stay) once I turn the computer off. It doesn't do this on other sites.

Something is still wonky.

NYG95GA wrote: It has not caused *too* much of a problem for me, but every once and a while the Google page pops up out of nowhere, and the "blocking pop-ups" counter at the bottom of my screen has been building up very high numbers. Hitting refresh doesn't seem to help, although it resets to zero (where it used to stay) once I turn the computer off. It doesn't do this on other sites. Something is still wonky.

Did you go to the link posted? That fixed it for me.

16vCorey wrote: Did you go to the link posted? That fixed it for me.

I went to the link, and hit refresh, but it seems to be doing it still. Blocking 89 pop-ups right now.