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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...
Here are my conclusions.
LACare is a high priority ad for MSN. MSN.com stories have LACare Banner above the stories and if not there will appear with a page refresh or two. Then the fuil-page popup happens.
MSN news stories have the same behavior even when you don't follow a link from MSN.com
Edge and Firefox do not properly block the full-page popup. Chrome correctly blocks it. So Chrome is detecting a behavior that Edge and Firefox are not.
Using a VPN that bounces through Sidney Australia the LACare ad never shows up in banner of side ad. It appears to be a Local distribution which makes sense.
Until Edge and Firefox apply something similar to what Chrome is doing it won't be blocked by them.
Somebody needs to slap LACare for the creation of this monstrosity and get then to stop. MSN.com also deserve to be slapped for allowing it. Surely Microsoft knows better.
Medicare annual enrolment is over so the ad may just go away soon anyhow.
That is all I have and will use Chrome or my VPN to avoid the issue.
Thanks for everyone's time
LACare is a high priority ad for MSN. MSN.com stories have LACare Banner above the stories and if not there will appear with a page refresh or two. Then the fuil-page popup happens.
MSN news stories have the same behavior even when you don't follow a link from MSN.com
Edge and Firefox do not properly block the full-page popup. Chrome correctly blocks it. So Chrome is detecting a behavior that Edge and Firefox are not.
Using a VPN that bounces through Sidney Australia the LACare ad never shows up in banner of side ad. It appears to be a Local distribution which makes sense.
Until Edge and Firefox apply something similar to what Chrome is doing it won't be blocked by them.
Somebody needs to slap LACare for the creation of this monstrosity and get then to stop. MSN.com also deserve to be slapped for allowing it. Surely Microsoft knows better.
Medicare annual enrolment is over so the ad may just go away soon anyhow.
That is all I have and will use Chrome or my VPN to avoid the issue.
Thanks for everyone's time
Revision ... The pop-up came back right after I posted the last business. Guess I'll just have to stop using Microsoft's homepage????????