OK, so, here’s an update on the strange pop-ups.<\/p>\n
When googling these problems, the immediate response was no hits. Then, suddenly, this blog appeared; as well as multiple hits from a company called “Saliar.com”. They claim to be a big important professional organization with some anti-malware software, complete with testimonials from such individuals as “Alferd”, and “Fritz”.<\/p>\n
They claim to have been in business for years, yet the domain saliar.com was recently registered in September:<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.networksolutions.com\/whois\/results.jsp?domain=saliar.com<\/p>\n
…But check this out. in the Google GROUPS forums<\/a>, which are actually Usenet posts, some individual named “dodo” posts that they are having the same messages as I have experienced. Then, within 15 minutes, somebody else, FROM THE SAME IP, posts a response, “Yeah, you have malware, you need this program from saliar.com”.<\/p>\n Right. It seems as though the conspiracy theory might be correct after all. In fact, right in the posts, it is revealed by other posters that it’s obviously a “Spammer” (as they called him).<\/p>\n The thing is, this guy \/ group of individuals are probably in Russia, and not in the cubicle next to me so that I can strangle them. I don’t know how much trouble it’s worth to go after them. Probably not worth it.<\/p>\n It’s only a matter of time before it is revealed by those more skilled than I, how these pop-ups are generated. It’s a very imbedded, well hidden method; I’ll give it that. But ultimately, it is made of 100% FAIL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" OK, so, here’s an update on the strange pop-ups. When googling these problems, the immediate response was no hits. Then, suddenly, this blog appeared; as well as multiple hits from a company called “Saliar.com”. They claim to be a big important professional organization with some anti-malware software, complete with testimonials from such individuals as “Alferd”,… Continue reading Saliar.com: Malware group, or something else?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tungsai.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tungsai.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tungsai.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tungsai.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tungsai.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tungsai.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tungsai.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tungsai.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tungsai.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}