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So I clicked on NS on my bookmaark bar and went to the homepage (not the splash) and while it was loading this box popped up for a dialup connection:
(login X'ed out for privacy)
This was my old dial up login that I have not used in over a year. It was not set to auto connect when no connection was present, and it has never randomly popped up before. I clicked cancel, because I obvoiusly didn't want to connect to dial up, and then the ad across the top of the page said "failed to connect" kind of like this:
What is going on here? was this ad trying to hack my dial up, or was this just some weird coincidence?