Javascript pop up in Firefox on Yahoo Finance
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Untangle doesn't appear to be compromised (from what I can see). I use Comcast and am geographically ~ 2 miles from their office and can't replicate it. I do use a Meraki instead of Untangle and many other parts of my network are different however. I haven't tried hooking a computer directly to the modem to see what happens if I do that... (I just thought of that while writing this.)
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It has been some years since I worked with an Untangle box and I know there have been a number of changes since then.
I believe if the pop up is the same address, you can block it via the UT GUI,.. I just don't remember how...
I would on occasion run off the 70 page report and make adjustments based on the junk that got through - also blocking whole ip ranges (countries) that were trying to brute force the system.
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They don't want to block finance.yahoo.com and the multiple pages it's loading are too many to block.
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Here is an example: https://youtu.be/A5Q0efHMbU4
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@ccwtech said in Javascript pop up in Firefox on Yahoo Finance:
Here is an example: https://youtu.be/A5Q0efHMbU4
From the stream of links and such in the status bar, there was a number of adclick. This is something I recall being able to block with UT.
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@ccwtech FWIW, i see similar behavior when viewing this page from both home and work. No JS popups though...
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What extensions are install on FF?
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None. I did a nuke and pave and fresh install of FF from Ninite.com.
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@danp That's good info. I'm wondering if you can just leave finance.yahoo.com up in the background. The pop-ups aren't always instant.
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@ccwtech Sure. I'll report back if anything unusual occurs.
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@ccwtech The page has been opened for about 15 mins without any popups. FWIW, the page eventually finished loading after between 10 and 15 mins.
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@danp said in Javascript pop up in Firefox on Yahoo Finance:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/i-found-fake-firefox-update
LOL - that was my guess.
malvertising. -
I see this from time to time, only when using firefox. Even on sites like Ars it happens.
They serve bad advertisements to you, and one of them gets you a popup in firefox. -
@momurda said in Javascript pop up in Firefox on Yahoo Finance:
I see this from time to time, only when using firefox. Even on sites like Ars it happens.
They serve bad advertisements to you, and one of them gets you a popup in firefox.Do you think this is a flaw the malvertizers are taking advantage of in FF that's not in Chrome?
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The odd thing is still that only on that network does the .js pop up appear. I guess it comes down to the fact it's a known issue with FF and until they fix it you just have to have add ons.
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Setup a PiHole and see if the problem goes away
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@aaronstuder said in Javascript pop up in Firefox on Yahoo Finance:
PiHole
Looks interesting... I think I'm just going to have him use Chrome. Not that Chrome doesn't come with it's own problems, but at least a good work around for this issue.
