Weird browser pop-up to increase return visits?

by kevinenrique

Posted: 9 years ago 7 replies

INTERNET MARKETING

Hello all.
The other day I was doing some Facebook Insight research for the Anti-aging niche and found a popular site where a lot of my target female market was going, womanfreebies.com . So I visited the site to see what info they had...

The day after that I was browsing the web and I got this weird pop up on the browser: http://imgur.com/z9Yb3dY
(just in case the link gets deleted, the popup says "Nameofthesite.com - This site has been updated in the background"
I'm using Chrome and I have a mac.

That message keeps on poping up every once in a while..

The questions is: How can this be done?? The site is not bookmarked or anything. I've never seen this before.

***UPDATE: This was caused by an malware in one of my chrome extensions, 'awesome screenshot'.

Any ideas?
Thanks
Kevin

#browser #increase #popup #return #visits #weird

professorrosado

9 years ago

Sounds like a browser cookie and that you don't have a popup blocker enabled. If not that, then check your browser settings to see if you allow for such scripting to attach to your browser without warning.

How to get something like that - go back to the site and do a page source view to see if you can see what script code they're using. You might get lucky and find a plugin name or resource reference you can search online for and determine if it is something that is available or that you need a developer to make for you.

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kevinenrique

9 years ago

Thanks for your reply.
What's weird about it is that I haven't been to that website in like a month but the small popup keeps coming up.. and it looks like it's coming from the computer, it's not attached to the browser.. It looks like a native mac task message. Today i got it again: Imgur: The most awesome images on the Internet
Maybe it has to do with a chrome extension?

Originally Posted by professorrosado

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professorrosado

9 years ago

Clean your machine: https://answers.yahoo.com/question/i...0084820AAupkGA

You may also try Adaware to remove this type of advertising pop-up.

That you want to do this? I wouldn't because more people will find this intrusive and hate your site and give you more bad shares than good ones and a lot of nothing good can come to your online business because of it.

Try providing value on your site and people will love and share your site.

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kevinenrique

9 years ago

Originally Posted by professorrosado

Yes, good advice. After my last reply I kept thinking that this could be some sort of adware... Maybe it came with a chrome extension or something.

Gracias,
Kevin

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professorrosado 9 years ago

Ad-Aware Free Antivirus and Free Antispyware software download. - Lavasoft

https://www.malwarebytes.org/

Free essentials.
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- kevinenrique 9 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by professorrosado
  
  Ad-Aware Free Antivirus and Free Antispyware software download. - Lavasoft
  
  https://www.malwarebytes.org/
  
  Free essentials.
  
  Gracias Rosado.
  Malwarebytes did the trick. It was an adware on a Chrome extension named 'awesome screenshot'.
  
  Thanks!
  
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pbadam1 9 years ago

This is a common problem.. Can someone recommend a free tool to scan and remove Adware?
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