305916 - The pop-up blocker is not blocking pop-ups - even though checked

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[cromaat]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.6

I keep getting pop-up adds from applebe's (sp?).  doesn't matter what website
I'm on.  This has been going on for 2-3 weeks.
I mostly use: http://www.instaweather.com/KING/default.asp?cid=90&id=PACSC&obs=full
http://mail2web.com/cgi-bin/list.asp?pe=0&mp=I&mps=0&lid=0&lp=20&mt=32000&ld=-1&ed=02SH1E%2FnBj%2FLLruYOdhveYkjhYq9%2FAg8iLvuxGUGJEwm3x5Ai%2Bwb29e1p%2FU%2BeBcybokiObvg0Faz%0D%0AL5xQStXmlGPFMn7DN56mR3sWsgtVvWDIyfY%3D
https://catalog.spl.org/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=1124981UVJ784.3691&profile=dial&lang=eng&logout=true&startover=true
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/

and it pop's up on any of these.  I rarely use other websites.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Just logging on and looking at a site and if on long enough then it pops up
and keeps popping up.  This is the only pop-up I'm getting and have never heard
of the business before.  I have no pop-ups allowed except for u.washington.edu,
which I haven't been on and is only to get to needed windows - like email from
the university.  The only other allowed pop-up is Hallmark - which I've not been
to in ages either.
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
after a while the applebe pop-up shows up, sometimes several times.

Expected Results:  
Blocked the pop-up

Comment 1

[u63580]

If it is coming from any website, it isn't going to be a popup from the web. 
Most likely some software on your PC is opening new windows.  I think this one
is likely to be invalid.  Have you tried asking in the Mozillazine forums?

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

Sounds like malware, because APOD doesn't have popups.