Nifty Stats Pro - Thanks For the Porn Popup...
 

Monday morning I noticed an annoying full page porn popup coming up about every hour.

So I run Spybot and nothing comes up. After reading for a few hours about this "virus" that kept popping up I just thought I was wasting too much time on it.

I then backed up my files/projects to my laptop, about 90gb worth of data... taking about 2 hours to transfer back and forth between the laptop and pc.

I then formatted and installed a clean version of Windows 7. Followed by Visual Studio, Sql Server, Office, all the goodies etc... Setting up a development machine is not as simple as sticking in a restore disc... So basically took a perfectly running system and redid it losing a full days worth of work.

Much to my dismay, this morning I got the damn popup again. I spent another hour or so looking up what this popup could be... I've never seen spyware survive a clean install, I was amazed.

The next time the popup came up, I decided to take a closer look at it.

Here is the pop as it displays, always a different ad, always fullscreen:
http://barelistbabes.com/images/popup.jpg

First thing I noticed, was that it wasn't an internet explorer window... hmmm, so I looked for the process in task manager:
http://barelistbabes.com/images/taskmgr.jpg

Next I clicked on "Go To Process"... and I see this as the selected process for this popup:
http://barelistbabes.com/images/process.jpg

I thought it was just a mistake and decided to try again and got the same process. So I ended the process and guess what, the popup closed...

A second later the process opened again and the popup came back...

Ok so I closed Nifty Stats Pro and the popup process... hmmm no pop anymore...

So I paid $200 for the full version of Nifty Stats Pro, and now I have a popup I thought was a virus forcing me to do a clean install on my machine and lose a full day's work.

Thanks guys... :mad:

easier way is to contact them, some sponsors stats doing that, they will be fixing it in next hours update ... :2 cents: but yes, drama here! :upsidedow

Rogue employee.

Hey if they knew about it... why not send an email out?

I understand things can get messed up in code trust me, but let people know about it before they waste A LOT of time on nothing.

now when you said, i noticed i have ie open in process without showing it in status bar wtf, i have nod my pc looks clean as whistle, gonna install ubuntu again :S

Your PC is infected with spyware you lame.

someone complaining about this on another forum as well.

nifty pops.

That sucks that you went to the trouble of doing a full reinstall. What a pain that must have been.

statsremote ftw. i tried to signup to nifty and the login info doesn't work.

Nifty has gone down hill.. I'd just get a refund and go for StatsRemote. :2 cents:

Just what I did :1orglaugh

i hit them up about it yesterday - via email (gasp)

found out it was caused by a specific sponsor. starlightbucks was the culprit. i stopped that download and popups were gone

got an email from them today saying that the issue is fixed

Just installed the new version, had it closed all day.

Let's see what happens :thumbsup

Yeah always fun :D

Hello,
the following sponsor has started to display a popup console while checking the stats, the issue was reported to us and we have created a new version of Nifty Stats Pro with a better pop up blocker. Therefore please update your copy of Nifty Stats.

They probably get those stats by opening a hidden browser window. If that browser window opens a page with a pop-up that they are not equipped to suppress, you get a pop-up.

With a program like nifty stats, you are trying to browse the web without browsing the web. It's not surprising that there would be occasional issues.

Looks like it's stable with no popups now Jenna :)

Guess my development machine will do good with a clean OS on it :1orglaugh

I just got this email...

:thumbsup

Wow, that sucks.

Formatting for no reason sucks.
But don't you always feel a little better after? :)

Last time I did a full format I made an image of my OS with all windows updates,programs i almost never update like autocad, office,etc. Now I can just restore it with everything installed. Takes like thirty minutes.

Constantly changing PST file from outlook, dev projects, etc... are a pain :(

This time I disagree with you, I think its 100% OK to post this on boards. The free version of Nifty Stats was a spam hell for me, however I loved the product when it was released, but over the months it became spammy and forced me to buy the full version. Because of the so many annoying experiences I gave a try to their competition StatsRemote, and I will keep using SR now as I love it! :pimp

looks to me that the case is closed ...

I have been chasing that for a couple days too. I tried several malware programs, and changed anti virus programs.

Quick update on their side. +1 for Nifty Stats. I use the pro version and am pretty satisfied with it.

I get a popup on nifty free version but only when I click on nifty. its not obtrusive and I dont mind I found a good new sponsor today from nifty. but I thought if you pay for the script then you dont get the ads. guess I was wrong

The pro version is ad free, this was a glitch caused by an affiliate program

jesus sponsors poping up their wms