Curious About A Popup

Discussion in 'The Lounge' started by Anon-9aee479f8f, Oct 17, 2016.

  1. Anon-9aee479f8f

    Anon-9aee479f8f Anonymized

    I am not posting this in the support forum because every thing is fine and my system scans clean.
    I just wondered if anyone else has had this happen. Last week I was using Firefox and I had recently installed
    ZenMate. I was trying to login to Pinterest and got a popup that blocked me from logging in and it said:

    Pintress Logo Robot
    Uh oh! We've found a bot
    It looks like there's a bot running on your network. Send us a message with your IP address and we'll help you get going again.
    Your IP is:XXXXXXXXX

    Notice the misspelling of Pinterest.
    Of course I did not do that. The IP address they showed was not mine either. I closed Firefox and logged into Pinterest using IE. No popup, so I closed IE and reopened Firefox and logged in to Pinterest and no popup this time and has not happened again.
    Just curious about this. Any ideas?
     
  2. Anon-9aee479f8f

    Anon-9aee479f8f Anonymized

    I guess I am the only one that has got a popup saying I have a bot. Anyone?
     
  3. Eldon

    Eldon Major Geek Extraordinaire

    I would not worry about it.
    Keep an eye on your internet usage.
     
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  4. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    Very possible as ZenMate is a VPN that Pinterest things you are a bot as using a VPN there maybe 1000s using same IP so server software security may think "are we under attack" thence the message,
     
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  5. Anon-9aee479f8f

    Anon-9aee479f8f Anonymized

    Thanks David I wondered if ZenMate was the reason since it was the first time I had seen anything like it.
     
  6. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    Indeed and as security on websites changes you may see new alerts at times like this. We really need to watch out for fake vine notifications as that platform is now dead or dying.
     

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