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Geek Culture / Worst pop up ever

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Uncle Sam
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Posted: 28th Feb 2007 08:11
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This is rediculous, some genious made it. Look at this pop up I got on savefile.com......



Better be careful out there.

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Agent Dink
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Posted: 28th Feb 2007 08:21
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I love how the popup window has an address bar on it. And I love how the window is shaped right around the "windows alert box"

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Lost in Thought
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Posted: 28th Feb 2007 08:24
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I like the pop-ups advertising pop-up blockers. 0_o

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Dazzag
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Posted: 28th Feb 2007 08:25
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Quote: "I love how the popup window has an address bar on it"
I thought that was a new feature of IE7, so that basically you can't be fooled anymore? Although probably someone has got around it already...

Cheers

I am 99% probably lying in bed right now... so don't blame me for crappy typing
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indi
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Posted: 28th Feb 2007 08:57
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hehe, only silly windows users would suffer that
hey spammers, next time make 3 different graphics, one for mac, redhat and of course windows.
oh wait they dont care about the smaller OSes, sniff! and as if a linux user would fall for it, you never know.

There is a major surge targeting old people in Australia at the moment for stuff like this as they dutifully obey whatever is read until they are told better.

damn you russian mafia for allowing these eediots to make money.
your just as bad billy gates for your softwares security.

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Van B
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Posted: 28th Feb 2007 09:14
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They don't make viruses for Linux because most virus writers probably use that!, when your chopping the legs off a chair, best not to stand on it while swinging the axe.


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indi
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Posted: 28th Feb 2007 10:25
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Its more efficient to develop on the intended platform for testing time reduction.
For example, I dont write DBP on a mac then save the file in a network folder only to roll my wheely chair over to the pc to compile and back again.
That drives me nuts, as i have to do that with some projects that require both systems on at once.
However if your virtually logged in from another machine is another matter.

regardless its a poor attempt to catch the most newest of new users, and the upsurge of nannies and papas seems to be a current climate target audience.

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BatVink
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Posted: 28th Feb 2007 11:38
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Quote: "I thought that was a new feature of IE7, so that basically you can't be fooled anymore? Although probably someone has got around it already..."


Flash!



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Benjamin
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Posted: 28th Feb 2007 13:12
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Quote: "hehe, only silly windows users would suffer that"

I get popups in Linux when using firesucks oops it's firefox.

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Chris K
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Posted: 28th Feb 2007 15:09
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I think he meant that it doesn't look like a Linux error window, so a Linux user would never click it accidentally...

I have seen an OSX one once...

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Dazzag
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Posted: 28th Feb 2007 15:20
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Yeah, is similar to those "Help me, I am an african prince with millions in the bank, just send me £1000 to release it and you can have half" emails. Watched a watchdog program and they reckoned old people fall for it all the time. At the end of the day if you target millions then even a few will net you loads. Much like when that million dollar website was copied and everyone slagged off the copiers because they only made something like $64k from it. Oh no.....

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Uncle Sam
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Posted: 1st Mar 2007 01:40
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Funny our world ain't it.

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