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[dark_ixion]

Does this look familiar to anyone?

Yeah, it's a way to try to trick the browser into displaying a pop-up ad, which gets around the usual pop-up blockers because they've split the SCRIPT part of it into two, as I expect the blockers look for a whole word. It's also using a random number generator so that the URL will be unique every time it

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[sauron19]

"I Downloaded Firefox and All I Got Was This Lousy Webpage." Seriously, try firefox. I could see the code on dictionary.com but it failed to produce any kind of popup for me...

> Also to work the logo off the screen using some video smudge process or something.

VirtualDub has a plugin that can smudge out logos whilst re-encoding... Enjoy!

[dark_ixion]

All I use is Firefox, but I'm beginning to see more pop-ups lately. I can't get that specific pop-up to appear again, but I still get the odd one.

Ahh.. VirtualDub. I have that installed, but didn't know of any plugins for it. Cheers man!

[sauron19]

Yeah, there's a ton of cool plugins on that page for VirtualDub. It's one of the main reasons I couldn't get a Mac even if I wanted to...

[dark_ixion]

Another example I've found, and I've even got this using the new Firefox 1.1

var dc=document; var date_ob=new Date();
dc.cookie='h2=o; path=/;';var bust=date_ob.getSeconds();
if(dc.cookie.indexOf('e=llo') <= 0 && dc.cookie.indexOf('2=o') > 0){
dc.write('');
date_ob.setTime(date_ob.getTime()+43200000);
dc.cookie='he=llo; path=/; expires='+ date_ob.toGMTString();} // -->
This came up with a pop-up ad for instant message expression icons which you've probably seen. It's a flash-based ad. Grrr.