I think I may have just gotten some spyware on this computer at work. It was completely by accident, I swear! I was just reading The Pirate Bay blog talking about how the site was recently sold and will be turned into a legal service (like that’s gonna succeed – look at Napster). But anyway, as I was reading it Firefox started freaking out. It wouldn’t let me close that tab and the whole computer was going pretty slow. There was a buttload of comments on the post so I’m guessing somebody put spyware or adware or something in their comment. I would give you a link to it but then I would be putting you in the same pickle I’m in.
So I finally got the tab closed and the computer was slowly getting back to normal (as normal as it could get) and up popped the window. It was AdwarePro or something like that? I don’t remember the actual name, I just denied everything it asked me to do and ended the task as quickly as possible. It even tried to trick me. The first message that popped up asked me if I wanted to buy the full version, so I said no. Then there was a second dialog box asking if I was sure I wanted to not purchase the full version, so I had to say yes to that one. Sneaky, sneaky AdwarePro.
I haven’t seen any signs of it again so hopefully it won’t come back, but I highly doubt it’s that easy to get rid of. Looks like we will be reghosting this machine next week…
You should’ve posted the link. As a mac user, I’m immune to your shenanigans and have no pickles