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malicious pop-up ad from lacare.org
How can this spoofer be stopped? They obviously are able to bypass much of Microsoft security under the guise of an lacare.org pop-up advertisement except when you click on the add, the website comes up in another language other than that defaulted to your computer. The pop-ups are continual and extremely annoying: preventing the user from being able to see chosen content right off of Microsoft's very own homepage. Try it yourself. Just try clicking on one of the interesting articles that stem from the main page, and there pops up this annoying lacare.org spoof. Click the x in the upper right corner, and in a few seconds, it comes back again, and again. Or is it just me? And yes, I've informed everybody at Microsoft already, etc.
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wcb_123 I think it may have just been a really badly designed drop-down menu, I didn't notice anything funny. I headed over there for the fun of it because I think there's like a security AI following me around, but I'm probably just crazy.
Oh, wait a minute. Looks like my browser / AI did a nice job blocking out some things (but not the terribly designed drop-down menu):
@Andrzej1, you don't sound like a nice person. Or maybe I read the tone wrong.
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- O.K. ... "drop down menu" ... what or which drop down menu are you referring to? And the block you're referring to ... does that come from the bad link I posted, or did you just go directly to the normal LA Care website? (Drop downs I'm familiar with are the single line textarea drop downs with a little black arrow to the right pointing downwards -- not that type?)
- Hello ... excuse the stupid response. I didn't see the picture you posted on my little tablet. May just have gotten a multi pop-up from a bad website that follows ME around, but I still think LA Care and their Tech Dept itself needs to be talked to at length as charities et al, as I've been told, are easy prey for hackers et al.
- hello ... he's o.k.
it's not a drop-down menu; it's a pop-up advertisement
apparently nobody else is getting this
sent it in anyway
thanks- I have been getting the same popup. Total AdBlock does block it. But I shouldn't have to buy a program to stop getting a popup that I have no control over.
wcb_123 Hi
Of course, this is rather your problem , Microsoft Sites do not use org.
I do not have it on any computer, scan your computer and write what it detected:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/security/intelligence/safety-scanner-download?view=o365-worldwide
- P.S. to last message ... the MSERT scan showed nothing
Hello ... Deleted
I'll try what you say, but I don't think you quite understood what I intended to say; so let me try again ...
Let's say when one clicks on the article "NASA performs spacewalk to install solar array" from off of Microsoft's main website. You are taken to the new link and once there, the malicious pop-up starts occurring and re-occurring. The link to the pop-up is here ...
https://lacare.org/healthy-living/community-engagement/community-resource-centers?utm_source=MyCode&utm_medium=Display&utm_campaign=CRC#googtrans(en|es)
... it is a "pop-up ad" that normally is legal, which Microsoft normally does allow as a paid advertiser, but this particular pop-up is continual, annoying, prevents one from seeing the intended content, and quite obviously a spoof.
I assume you are unfamiliar with what a spoof is?????
My security on my laptop is up to date and everything, but I'll try what you say.
I opened a shared page and I have no ads, but in Edge - I turned off pop-ups and of course I have an extension to block ads.
