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murph76



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PostPosted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 11:06 pm Reply with quote
If would be better in the "invasive ads" thread, please move it. It seemed a different enough issue for me to start a new thread.

I've been having trouble for the past week, maybe two, with being redirected from ANN to other sites. It happened twice. Once took me to a spyware detection site, the second time was to an online phone book. While surfing ANN today, my computer anti-virus intercepted a trojan.

This only happens on ANN. I'm wondering if maybe an ad in the rotation has something buried in it that's messing with my computer.

When the redirect took me to the online phone book, I clicked the back button from the online phone book to return to the last ANN page I was on. I have a screenshot of the banner ad, which I don't have access to right now since I'm at work. But the ads by at the bottom said Gorilla Nation.

I can post the ad screenshot if that would help. I have a pentium 4 computer with XP. I'm using whatever IE knockoff is included with Yahoo DSL, if that information is helpful to you.

Is this an issue for anyone else?
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dtm42



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PostPosted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 2:53 am Reply with quote
Thankfully no.

I'm not expert, but I think the screenshot would be helpful. If an ad is doing weird and frankly dodgy things, then knowing what it looks like will help.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 5:19 pm Reply with quote
Screenshot would definitely be very useful.

Chris
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Shiroi Hane
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 10:20 pm Reply with quote
I've suffered from this before, but IIRC it only occured with UK-specific ads at the time.
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murph76



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PostPosted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 11:17 pm Reply with quote


Here's the screenshot. The ad was at the top of the page I back clicked to after a redirect. I assume its the same ad that was on the page when I was redirected.
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