Adverts... again...

[Kipi]

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Originally Posted by BuckGB Kipi, UGO has assured me that they have absolutely no relationship with Clicksor in any region, so these text-based rollover ads are most likely a result of some sort of adware on your computer. Can you investigate this a bit more and shoot me an email or PM with the results? If nothing else, we can probably contact Clicksor directly to get to the bottom of it.

Thanks.

I will investigate this more, perhaps even have one of my dad's friends to check my computer, as he is very good at this kind of things, and surely has softwares good enough to track this down. But I'll update this thread when I know more.

Oh, and if it's indeed adware that has caused appearance of clicksor, then probably just removing it and traces of clicksor should help, and thus no need to contact Clicksor (yet). Though if the problem reappears, then I think I just should do that.

[Kipi]

Okay, finally something to update to this matter.

First of all, for a background info, I started using Chrome as my browser due the fact that it's faster, and more simple. (I don't need all those bells and whistles IE and Opera has). Since then, the amount of Clicksor ads got to the sky. Basically, I wasn't able to view single page from here without having all those ads. But again, the problem was only in GB, nowhere else did I see those.

I contacted my dads friend week ago, as I was getting really annoyed, and he told me that it could be virus, and he could check my computer, but it would take couple of weeks before he would be able to do that. Instead, he suggested several things for me:

1) Clear all IE cookies both through the browser and manually. This didn't help.
2) Do the same with Opera. Again, no help.
3) Run three different commercial programs (F-Secure, which I already had, Kaspersky and Norton, and the guy was able to get me demo license for full features lasting two weeks). Couple of viruses found and destroyed, but didn't help.
4) Run Avast. I had already done that, and it didn't find anything, but decided to do that again, this time turning off my internet connection. Left it running while I had work shift, and as I just returned, it had found one troijan. Booted computer, and no trace of Clicksor so far.

So I suspect it was actually virus causing all the trouble, and very nasty one as I had to run 3 different commercial programs and Avast! twice before solving it. So far, even while using Chrome, seen no trace of it, and yesterday it was infesting every page of GB.

Also, not sure if it has anything to do with matter, but as Clicksor is actually java based thing (figured it out with Chrome, as it shows what it loads better than IE and Opera), and I had java disabled totally in IE and in some extent in Opera, I had only now and then the ads, but as it's not possible to turn java off in Chrome (something to do with how Chrome works and makes it faster), I got it all the time.

Yet, even though the problem is solved, I'm still rather curious why GB was the only place showing it?

[BuckGB]

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Originally Posted by Kipi Yet, even though the problem is solved, I'm still rather curious why GB was the only place showing it?

Hard to say. I'm not sure what sites you visit, but it could just be the nature of the many video game-related terms we produce here on GB. They seem to be popular search terms for such text advertising.

Another reason might be that it's a global conspiracy being orchestrated by Fable and Weasel. If that's the case, it's good you were able to remove the trojan. They will no doubt be moving on to something far more sinister in the coming days.

[Foss]

Thought it would be best to use this thread.

In the last few days I sometimes experience that my browser automatically change page to this below me when I go onto the main page of Gamebanshee:
This is one of them.

So, I go to GameBanshee and then a second after it switches to a white page with an add like the one above. The one above is one of those it has switched too.

[swcarter]

I've been having trouble with the square Coraline ad. It doesn't stay in its box, and it makes it impossible to click on links.

SWC

[galraen]

There is a dirty, short term solution, disable Java and Java Script (Tools/Options/Content in Firefox) before loading GB, just remember to re-enable when you leave. Not an ideal solution, and may not be viable for moderators, some functions are disabled doing this, but it does get past the advertisement problem and allow you to use the forum.

[BuckGB]

Thanks for the info, I've notified UGO. Hopefully both of these ad issues will be addressed today.

[Crenshinibon]

I realize that this topic has been dead for sone time, but a recent advertisement, "Summer Arcade", has been making it unable for me to click links, even if I close it. This makes navigation as well as posting difficult and the only solution I've found so far, without disabling scripts, is to reload (not refresh) the page again.

[BuckGB]

Thanks for the note, I've contacted UGO about it.