[SpamCop-List] OT - drifted to Ave. A Re: [MEDIA] Tsunami spam scammer cuffed

[Pop]

Porpoise wrote:
> "Pop" <nobody at spamcop.net> wrote in message
> news:csoetq$eit$1 at news.spamcop.net...
>> Porpoise wrote:
>>> "Tim" <crappy.trappy at ntlworld.com> wrote in message
>>> news:csmi7t$a84$1 at news.spamcop.net...
>>>>
>>>> I got Firefox set to only allow cookies for the originating 
>>>> site.
>>>> Don't get any problems browsing 
>>>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/
>>>
>>> I don't get any problems with The Register site 
>>> either......???
>>> Strange!
>>
>> You must be allowing Avenue A Inc. to download to your 
>> machines or
...
>
> Hmmm..... wierd...... just done a complete system check and 
> there's
> no sign of it on here (mind you, I would have been extremely
> surprised - and annoyed - given how far I've got the system 
> locked
> down). Are you sure it wasn't anything to do with the link you 
> used
> to get there? When I type the URL into the address bar, it 
> doesn't
> try to download anything onto here.

Yeah, that is weird.  You're -positive- of that?  I've been there 
four times now and all four times the same thing happens; the 
Avenue A download is attempted, I refuse it, tried it once asap I 
could click it, and once I let it sit there waiting  for a couple 
of minutes, then denied it, and the site just went away; Reloads 
resulted in the same thing.
    One confusing thing:  HOW could the site know I refused it? 
I wonder what I send out when I hit Deny?  Never thought of that!
   What browser are you using on the 'net?  I'm on XP Pro, 
completely updated.  In fact, as of about a half hour ago, 
EVERYthig is updated & at least the av & Adaware claimed I was 
clean.  No time to baby sit the rest of it though.

All my av/malware/adware/cookie run/temp file kills, /etc., 
followed by a cleanup and defrag stuff runs tonight; tomorrow 
I'll  I'll see what I can get.   I just plan on turning on my 
port monitor, go online with an auto-connect directly to that 
site, and see what happens.  Dunno if there'll be anything I can 
post; that's going to get a lot of data that way, but I'll 
consider it if I can find anything looks useful.
   If I don't see Avenue A Inc tomorrow, that scream you hear off 
in the distance will be me!  I'm convinced it happens the way I 
described it, but I was wrong that one time; ahhhh, nooooo, I 
won't finish that sentence!  <g>.  Too much evidence on this 
group!

Pop