If you were on a linux box, the most likely cause is that another site you had open in the background just fired off a popup (or a popunder which you revealed when you closed another page).
If you're on windows, again it's almost certainly just a normal popup but you could be infected with spyware - the best cure is to run the microsoft spyware removal tool available from windowsupdate.microsoft.com and also ad-aware from download.com. reboot your pc into safe mode and run those 2 tools, and they should catch anything on your pc.
Ewan
On 5/29/05, Ted Harding Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk wrote:
Hi Folks,
This may be a falsely started hare.
However, while browsing with Google, I suddenly got a pop-up which informed me that a "scan" had revealed that my machine had a cookie stored which would allow "tracking", i.e. spyware which could transmit information from my machine.
It then invited me to download a free scanner to cure the problem.
I have more than a suspicion that this cure might turn out to be worse than the alleged disease, but I'd be interested to see other people's comments!
Best wishes to all, Ted.
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