Re: [Full-Disclosure] A Popup! In Mozilla!

[Charles Richmond <cmr@xxxxxxxx>]

Add the following to adblock

	http://2-spyware.com/images/*

On Jul 21, 2004, at 1:44 AM, Dave King wrote:

> This isn't a normal "popup" in that it doesn't open a new browser 
> window.  All they're doing is placing this great animated gif  over 
> the middle of the page using absolute positioning in the DIV tag.  
> Notice that it looks like an IE window even in Firefox.  Really this 
> is a sneaky trick that is pretty annoying.  I think this type of ad 
> placement is going to be hard to block since most of the time absolute 
> positioning images is just part of the normal page and has nothing to 
> do with ads, even though I guess at one time pop-ups were used 
> legitimately almost exclusively.  At least this page seems to be 
> thoughtful enough to only display the ad the first time you visit it.  
> Tricky little devils aren't they (and getting trickier all the time).

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