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I’m
highly irritated.
Daisy-Chain invader laughs at Ghostery, too.
In Firefox 33 Ghostery is not highly effective. I've been plagued by numerous pop-up ads and "sliders". The worst of these causes a new tab to be opened, endlessly. You try to close a pop-up and the tab opens. Close the tab and the pop-up comes back and over and over. Closing the browser gets rid of both but they eventually start again. Norton missed it and it came right through windows firewall.
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Ghostery is highly effective for what it's designed to do, which is identifying trackers on [external] web pages. It is not an anti-malware product, and will not protect you from unwanted software that's already present on your computer. That's not its purpose.
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I’m
still frustrated but mellowing.
I recognized that Ghostery was limited in what it could do but was hoping that someone would pick up that it was in a good position to be a last line of defense. It seems to be observing every web page so why not block a page that is displayed and closed many times in a short period of time? In this case it would have held that page at bay until Norton, or whoever, had time to respond. Late last night I ran a full scan and Norton found the culprit and disabled it. (It was a low-risk ad promoter.) Apparently, it slipped in between database updates which happen several times a day. -
CHAMP
