Re: Password dialog window popping up

JasonScott wrote:
Beginning yesterday, I've got a dialog window popping up whenever I browse to a new web page. It's happening with both Mozilla Firefox and Nestcape browsers (sorry MS). This window requests username and password for random odd web addresses. As an example, when I browsed to this newsgroup starting with the Microsoft home page, every page I clicked through to get here popped up with the following: 'Please enter username and password for [empty quotation marks] at http://global.msads.net' . Trying to play it safe, I've been closing the windows using alt-F4 rather than clicking on their cancel buttons to avoid the ol' button switcheroo trick. As I said, I've never seen these before yesterday, it's been forever since I've seen a popup window at all. As for my sys config, I'm running XP SP2, Zone Labs ZoneAlarm firewall, AVG free edition anti-virus, Spybot S&D with the IE resident and TeaTimer resident activated, AdAware SE, Spysweeper with all shields activated, CWShredder and HijackThis. I scan my sys regularly with Spysweeper, AdAware, CWShredder and HijackThis, along with the spyware scanner built into Netscape browser. All these apps, along with XP, are current and updated. Scans today with AdAware, Spybot S&D, CWShredder and HijackThis came up empty.

Any info or assistance with this shucking fullbit would be immensely appreciated. Thanx/gracias/merci.

Do you truly mean "whenever I browse to a new web page" as in any webpage anywhere?

Anyway, does this look like anything useful?:

http://forums.spywareinfo.com/lofiversion/index.php/t48937.html

There is a slew of material about global.msads.net just a Google search away but, as always, it is difficult to tell what applies and what doesn't in any particular case.

FWIW, if you simply go directly to global.msads.net you will receive a message like:

"This is a default test page for the Advertising Delivery System (ADS) indicating you have successfully pinged an individual IIS Server by IP."

John McGaw
http://johnmcgaw.com
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