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Rasta Monsta

I think "Adrotator" has put a "You might have spyware" ad on DH.

I thought they had made these "system spoof" ads illegal?

Anyway, they bug.

rasta

Vikingod

I'm not getting it, you may want to run a scan.

Zardon

Need more information, it is possible spyware from another site, if it occurs again, take a screengrab of the ads displaying and let me know,

BWX

Yeah I saw a couple earlier- if froze DH completely (IE6) and then a full screen pop up came up, and DH went completely away- then another smaller pop-up came up. Then I exited out of everything thinking it was another website that did it.

After I opened up another website altogether w/o DH being up at all- it happened again but only the smaller pop up.. That was weird.


Anyway.. after that I closed all windows again, rebooted, came to DH and only the small one popped up. I was like- WTF?

Then I ran adaware and it found absolutely no ad cookies at all (I run it quite often so all the tracking cookies were gone)..

I then ran SpywareBlaster and it got an update, then I enabled all protection for all the bad sites. I opened up DH and a bunch of other sites with no problems at all.

I think SpywareBlaster update blocks the "new" rouge ad. I noticed a new ad at the bottom of DH as this all was happening..

It is a bigger than normal ad, but I don;t block any banner ads and they have been behaving themselves lately. it would have to happen again for me to be sure the new ad is what caused all the drama.

If anyone needs a screenshot of that one just in case I can make one.

Zardon

well if you take a screenshot I can report it, but id like to see if its the same one rasta is seeing.

Rasta Monsta

The scenario that B-Dub described is exactly what I saw this morning...a full screen popup that made the whole Windows Explorer interface hiccup (y'know, like when all the desktop icons & task bar refresh?). It was not drawn like my explorer windows either, it was like a different theme was applied.

Anyway, like BWX, I ran a spyware scan and got nothing. It was quite a shock to see my pristine rig act like that!

rasta

Zardon

must be a rogue popunder, but Im not getting it, I need more information so if you see it again, send me reports and ill pass them on with some nice swear words

BWX

K, well the new one that started a rotation when I had all those pop-ups was below in the pics.. there was also an alienware ad in that same spot and maybe another one.

I never got a chance to take a pick of the actual pop-up, if that happens again I will definitely do it. I think spywareblaster is blocking them now or else it was just a freak one time thing...

BWX

Aha.. See- I refreshed again and the ad is blocked by spywareblaster- It shows a blank space-

So maybe one of those ads in that spot is rotating in a bad one. but then again, who knows. If no one else complains about that- maybe it was a one time thing that got taken care of already at the source.

BWX

Hey I went through my history and found the pop up- I also found the bad one- but now it is in the restricted sites so I cannot show the actual ad- but the address is still in the history- will have screens in a few minutes.



I think that is the bad one- be carefull going to that link:

http://www.inqwire.com/homepage.prec...nlpt=yes&cb=70

CDsDontBurn

i actually have the same one at the bottom of each page. i didn't notice it until now that you brought it up

Zardon

and whats it doing? it looks like an ordinary ad.

BWX

http://www.swbtk.net/def/45/5006.html <-- that one popped up I think (it is restricted now in IE after Spywareblaster update)

http://empnads.com/servlet/ajrotator.../vh?z=enternet <-that is the address to one of them


And that was in the mix there somewhere..




Also the ads on the bottom I took a screenshot of- it might be nothing.. it might be one of those in the rotation causing probs.. I'm not sure how it works.

BTW everything is fine now..

Zardon

and what is the popunder (up) doing? that one you just posted BWX comes up on my machine occasionally and does nothing just close it?

the ad cdsdontburn also looks fine, is it doing something I cant see?

Right now ive really nothing to show the ad company, just a series of ads which all look normal.....

BWX

Yeah I don't know either. Maybe it fixed itself.
The one that I think locked my IE for a sec was this one:


http://www.inqwire.com/homepage.prec...nlpt=yes&cb=70


But it is hard to say where it came from..
As long as it is fixed and doesn't get anyone else, it must be fixed.. Those things can be sneaky. Maybe it was a one time thing and we both just happened to see it. That is what it is sounding like at this point.

longingforutila

Zardon are you there?

longingforutila

Anyone know about ati 9600 card I have installed it into my dell inspiron 8500 and installed the drivers . The games work but dvd is all blocky any help would really br great !!!

Zardon

There is an ATI support forum section on driverheaven, post your question in there and the members will help, this is the site feedback forum and this thread is about a popup. As you might guess this isnt the ideal place to ask about ATI cards and drivers.

Ill close this thread, anyone else experiences problems with ads, open a new thread.

craig5320

I put that ad up a few weeks ago, as noted by yourself it's hardly noticable yet serves a great purpose in helping with revenue for the funding of the site.