I've gotten this same pop-up twice tonight, most recently in Off Topic.

I just got the pop up in the political forum.

Just got one in the hysteria thread in Political - it went here:
http://appsurveygo.com/surveynow.php?c=giftcard.en&p=308980249d477b0ad7be36fd75c7db8d&subid=M12037342841477924032081438&t=1477924032

Anonymous wrote:Just clicked in recent topics and was redirected to adzfoundation or something similar. I'm on an iPad latest iOS

Thanks. That was very helpful. I had just turned one of the ad networks back on after they said they had cleaned things up. I've turned them off again.

Just clicked in recent topics and was redirected to adzfoundation or something similar. I'm on an iPad latest iOS

Anonymous wrote:Hi Jeff,

Twice in the last hour I've gotten a scareware pop up from a site www.block201.com.


It freezes everything so I have to shut down so I've not been able to get a screen grab for you. Our IT support company says it's one they're not familiar with. (Purports to be a Microsoft service site, w/ a phone number, use of Microsoft logo etc... but clearly is scareware.)

I'm not getting that result anywhere else but here.

Just as in the case just above your in the thread, these customized pop-ups are going to be very difficult for me to track down because I don't have a Windows computer and they probably won't serve those ads to me. I'll do what I can. Can you ask your IT guys if they have a proxy server and, if so and they are logging traffic, if they would be willing to share the logs for your traffic just before www.block201.com? We might be able to see which ad triggered that pop-up.

Hi Jeff,

Twice in the last hour I've gotten a scareware pop up from a site www.block201.com.


It freezes everything so I have to shut down so I've not been able to get a screen grab for you. Our IT support company says it's one they're not familiar with. (Purports to be a Microsoft service site, w/ a phone number, use of Microsoft logo etc... but clearly is scareware.)

I'm not getting that result anywhere else but here.

Anonymous wrote:I just got a pop-up that I'd been selected for a survey or won something from Time Warner. I was on the Sport & Health thread in the Sports forum when it happened.

It looks like these pop-ups are being customized for your ISP (others have received Verizon versions). I'm not using a major ISP and they probably won't target me. Therefore, it is going to be very hard for me to reproduce. If this happens again, please look for any hostname or URL that might appear with the pop-up and let me know what it is.

I just got a pop-up that I'd been selected for a survey or won something from Time Warner. I was on the Sport & Health thread in the Sports forum when it happened.

Okay, I tracked that one down and turned off a second ad network. If anyone gets any malicious ad after 10:45, please report it (it takes a few minutes for ad networks to stop sending after I've turned them off).

I just got the same pop ups my iPad Air 2. Here is the link: http://presalemobi.com/ussurvey.php?c=giftcard.en&p=addf16f4ccda5b95629f1db3a95f3ae0&subid=M26546993671477577667029548&t=1477577667

Anonymous wrote:Just had it happen - wasn't even in a thread, just trying to load the recent forums page directly. Claiming I won a gift cards from Pre sale mobi.

This is interesting because I tracked this one down yesterday and turned off the ad network that was sending it. That means it is coming from a second network today. I start tracking again. At this rate, I'll have all my ad networks turned off shortly.

I've gotten the same thing twice this morning.

Just had it happen - wasn't even in a thread, just trying to load the recent forums page directly. Claiming I won a gift cards from Pre sale mobi.

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just got a strange pop up when I was reading the Personalities who Break things thread. I took a screenshot but I don't know how to post it.

It is probably the same one I got. Don't download anything from these popups. I am very close to finding the source of this one.

It was afesurveys and it said I was selected for a survey. I'm on a mac-

Same here. On a Mac and just clicked on p. 3 of the nurse reduction thread in DC public schools and it redirected. I believe it said 'you've been selected for a Verizon survey.' I think the website was yourresearchgroup.com, something like that.

Was that before 5 pm?

No, this was ~15 min ago.