182508 - [rfe] ability to block dialog box popup windows

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Jeff Tilak]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021126
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2) Gecko/20021126

there is a kind of javascript popup that mozilla doesnt block. the modal dialog
box (stealing focus and requiring user to click "ok") this has legitimate uses
but it seems advertisers are using this feature instead of banners now. see the
screenshot.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Jeff Tilak]

Attachment: screenshot of popup

Comment 2

[Jo Hermans]

That's not a JavaScript popup, it's an alert-message from Windows, which is
misused by some spammers. It's not created by Mozilla. You can see thses popups
when you're connecting to the Internet, but there doesn't have to be *any*
application running. 

Comment 3

[Jo Hermans]

more info (how to block them) :
http://mynetwatchman.com/kb/security/articles/popupspam/

Comment 4

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

v 

windows messanger SPAM ( I blocked my port via firewall)
you can also disable the windows messenger service

Comment 5

[Jeff Tilak]

wow i feel like a dumbass. i should have checked this myself before filing a bug.

thanks