OT? Online Survey Takes Over Chrome

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Clicking around on various pages referring to Prindle Catamarans,
I somehow wound up with this URL loaded into Chrome:
http://onlinesurveycenter.net/?u=bZ...qJK5xMFxSeib8kVX8a511975sjn2VpXUV8pd8X3qf4cp_

At this point, there seemed tb no way out without jumping through
their hoops (i.e. clicking "Ok" on a dialog....).

Effectively this little nasty took over Chrome.

Finally used TaskMan to kill Chrome altogether.

Logically, it doesn't seem like Chrome sb designed to allow
somebody to take it over....

Is this a known phenom?
 
(PeteCresswell) said:
Clicking around on various pages referring to Prindle Catamarans,
I somehow wound up with this URL loaded into Chrome:
http://onlinesurveycenter.net/?u=bZ...qJK5xMFxSeib8kVX8a511975sjn2VpXUV8pd8X3qf4cp_

At this point, there seemed tb no way out without jumping through
their hoops (i.e. clicking "Ok" on a dialog....).

Effectively this little nasty took over Chrome.

Finally used TaskMan to kill Chrome altogether.

Logically, it doesn't seem like Chrome sb designed to allow
somebody to take it over....

Is this a known phenom?
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I haven't seen this one, but have seen others that take focus and *seem*
to make it necessary to stop all browser instances to kill it. If I am
doing something important (seldom the case) I will use task manager and
under the applications tab right click on the miscreant script embedded
instance and choose minimize and then continue my work. It has been my
experience that the script is doing nothing while it is waiting for
input from the user.

In the cases I am familiar with, it eventually leads to malware, so when
I am done with whatever important stuff I may have been doing, I shut
off my wireless radio and click through to see the connection problems
dialog and a URL to capture. I'm not sure if it would be safe in this
case or not - there seems to be some obfuscation going on in those scripts.
 
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