Spyware, Popups, etc., DDR Freak, and you.

Tomo_kun · Trick Member Joined: 26 Oct 2003 Location: SE-WI.

BOOBS!

Yes, in the banner ad!
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Cutriss wrote:

FLCL, God of Gods wrote:

Uh... so when do we get the porn forum?

If you can't find porn on the Internet, you're not trying.

IguanaGrrl · Staff Member Joined: 17 Jan 2002 Location: Sacramento, CA

It's been taken care of already.
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Tomo_kun · Trick Member Joined: 26 Oct 2003 Location: SE-WI.

IguanaGrrl · Staff Member Joined: 17 Jan 2002 Location: Sacramento, CA

I also literally saw it 10 minutes ago and alerted J Dogg and he took down the banner ads temporarily.
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Spiffy · Posted: Fri Nov 19, 2004 6:14 pm Post subject:

Er, is this supposed to be on the site?

...and when I clicked on "What's this?" and it said...

Cutriss · Staff Member Joined: 24 Jan 2002

Yes. It's not your computer - this is server-side advertising stuff.
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Sentient Mode is capable...

Agilab · Contributor Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Location: Baltimore, MD

What about the Vibrating Tounge Ring ad? "Use your imagination" Some people might take offense to that one....
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AuntieM · Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2004 8:36 am Post subject:

At this URL: http://www.ddrfreak.com/phpBB2/posting.php?mode=quote&p=7907201

I got an alert from VirusScan where something with the name track[1].htm was detected as Exploit-MhtRedir.gen , detected as a Trojan, was deleted.

This happened as I was typing a reply to a message.

At the same time my pop-up blocker gave the message:

Your security settings do not allow websites to use ActiveX controls installed on your computer. This page may not display correctly.

I didn't get a close look at the banner ad, but it was moving at first. However, when I went back to it the ad was a stationary one for Verizon DSL. Wassup with that?
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AuntieM · Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2004 6:43 am Post subject:

Same thing today just after posting something.
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IguanaGrrl · Staff Member Joined: 17 Jan 2002 Location: Sacramento, CA

The banner ads rotate, so the url of the forum page you found it on isn't going to help us resolve the problem, that's why you got the different ad when you went back.

If you get it again, please make a note of which ad it is and try to get the url for the picture of the ad. It would give us a much better indication of which specific ad we're looking for.
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tsugaru_man · Trick Member Joined: 13 Dec 2003

i'm not sure if this was already said, but i checked page 1,9, and 10, so delete this if you want, but:
sometimes (it's happened 3 times now) this one download thing comes up (download as in the window that says "do you want to download so and so?" you know, like the legal window instead of a popup ad) and even if you click no, a popup comes up later, even if you have a popup blocker (but my popup blocker may be out of date.) and the title says "second thought installation" and has some stuff like lists what this product does and then has lower in the window "you have already agreed to our terms, in a different window (WRONG!). if you have changed your mind, uncheck this box and then close the window. and then it has a checked box down in the corner, that isn't as noticeable. and at the bottom of the ad it has this huge button that says CLICK HERE TO CLOSE THIS WINDOW!!!!!!!!!! as they are hoping that people won't read it and close the window with out unchecking the box, and then get spyware and viruses installed onto thier computer.

i got 2 viruses from this ad before i restored my computer, and my virus scanner said that they were called "bloodhound 4. packed" and bloodhoud3. packed" or something. sorry this is a long post, just letting you know.
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ok i haven't been on for a while, but now i am back on. MY PREVIOUS USER NAME IS HEAVY_IS_AWESOME.

AuntieM · Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2004 7:09 am Post subject:

So given all the trouble with virusscan alerts on DDRFreak, I switched to Firefox. Now I'm getting windows that say "This document contains no data" where I think I previously would have gotten an alert from virusscan. However, today when I was looking at a forum after having just posted a pm and being taken back to the forum, I noticed in the bar at the bottom of the page that usually just says "Done" the words "Transferring data from whatpulse.bounceme.net". The loading bar on the right bottom of the window appeared then finished and nothing else happened.

Is this the kind of mystery URL you were looking for?
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AuntieM · Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2004 7:12 am Post subject:

Same thing just now from text.burstnet.com. This time the alert window actually popped up that said "This document contains no data"
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AuntieM · Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2004 7:13 am Post subject:

OK, final post for now and I promise:

This sequence:

Whatpulse etc
Static.upptechnologies.com
text.burstnet etc

No alert window

That's it and goodbye for now; won't bother you anymore.
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VxJasonxV · Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2004 1:45 pm Post subject:

If you're getting those annoying pop-up boxes that say: This document contains no data.
Do the following:

MATTY V. · Trick Member Joined: 10 Mar 2002

this one banner ad sometimes makes my browser window temporarily freeze.

http://view.atdmt.com/DEN/iview/l90xxcdd00100194den/direct/42401786701?click=
http://c4.maxserving.com/adclick/CID=0000294db5c2ed8000000000/AREA=tech/SITE=
6488/AAMSZ=banner/CM=5550/CR=3583/AD=1216/CC=10573?/relocate=

just remove the two carriage returns.

tekkie · Trick Member Joined: 19 Dec 2003 Location: Albuquerque

I find it a bit ironic that there's a banner here showing a bike and saying something like "Too bad it's motor is inside playing video games."

They need to be specific we're inside playing DDR!
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Reenee · Trick Member Joined: 21 Nov 2003

I am unsure if this is the correct thread, but I'm being randomly sent to Smiley Central. I got it once reading a thread and another looking at my Profile.

MATTY V. · Trick Member Joined: 10 Mar 2002

i'm getting a few nasty banner ads here on ddrfreak. one is ads by iTotalFind, which, for reasons beyond me, plays a sound of a car motor.

the other one takes me straight to a pornography site without me ever clicking on the banner. also, if i am typing a post when i click the back button to go back to browsing the forums, i am taken back to the thread which i was posting in, rather than the posting screen itself. the url for the banner is as follows (spaces added intentionally):
http://212. 159. 16. 75/ THIS IS PORNOGRAPHY! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.

i've cleared all saved cookies along with my cache and run ad-aware, yet these 2 banner ads persist.

J Dogg · Administrator Joined: 16 Jan 2002 Location: Sunnyvale, CA

We're gettng a new ad company in the next few days! I'm very hopeful that this will solve all the problems we've been having lately. If it doesn't work, I'm going to look into hosting without an external ad agency.
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