I clicked on a forum section and...

[scooby_dooby]

It happens with IE 6.0 for me, and it's not adware, I keep my PC clean, and it's happened both here and at work, and doesn't affect any other sites I visit.

Here's the screen, for some reason the monster.ca add didn't load, but usually there a big fat flash advertisment in the middle of the screen:

It doesn't leave anything in the history either, as if it's embedded in the showthread.php page or something.

It says "Your page is loading" for about 5 seconds, which just forces you to wait until the full add has displayed and is fiunished animating, and then that text changes to a "Skip Ad" link w/ a 15 second timeout, at which it redirects you to your page.

Next time it happens, I'll grab the source code, that should shed a little light on the situation.

 

[Tim Murray]

How often does this happen? I'm using IE7 right now and clicking frantically, but I'm not getting anything like this.

 

[3dilettante]

For me, it's pretty transient. I've gotten the splash screen maybe four or five times out of who knows how many clicks, but none today.

 

[Skrying]

For me, it's pretty transient. I've gotten the splash screen maybe four or five times out of who knows how many clicks, but none today.

Browser?

 

[scooby_dooby]

How often does this happen? I'm using IE7 right now and clicking frantically, but I'm not getting anything like this.

Random, sometimes I'll get it twice within a few minutes, and other times it won't happen all day.

It just started maybe 2 or 3 days ago?? I assumed a new advertising system had been implemented...

 

[3dilettante]

Browser?

IE6

 

[DR]

hi Guys,


I am the ad guy here at B3D - and I am on the case; can you all confirm you are in the USA?

[anyone who isn't seeing the ad - please don't respond to this thread]

We sell network traffic out in the USA/UK and I have to track down where this one is coming from.

DR

 

[DR]

This should now be resolved.

 

[RussSchultz]

US. IE6 (both computers).

Strangely, at work I've never seen the problem, IE6 also.

 

[DR]

US. IE6 (both computers).

Strangely, at work I've never seen the problem, IE6 also.

Have you seen it since I posted above?

 

[Geo]

David, at least one reportee is in Canada. . . they can be surly if we too obviously treat them like they're just "US north".

 

[RussSchultz]

Have you seen it since I posted above?

Oh, no, sorry. I think I posted that seconds after you said it was fixed and didn't notice your announcement. I haven't seen it since.

 

[scooby_dooby]

David, at least one reportee is in Canada. . . they can be surly if we too obviously treat them like they're just "US north".

lol, thx Geo. I haven't seen it yet, so hopefully it's fixed

 

[Mize]

I never saw it (Firefox), but I'm real curious what the cause was.

 

[DR]

I never saw it (Firefox), but I'm real curious what the cause was.

& to satisfy your curiosity I will keep it a secret

 

[DR]

David, at least one reportee is in Canada. . . they can be surly if we too obviously treat them like they're just "US north".

Indeed, we need to be careful

 

[Mize]

& to satisfy your curiosity I will keep it a secret

Thou art evil.

 

[micron]

I got the HP ad....IE6...U.S.

 

[DR]

I got the HP ad....IE6...U.S.

Hi Micron,


Is this since I posted above - There is no reason why you should?

Cheers!

DR

 

[micron]

Hi Micron,


Is this since I posted above - There is no reason why you should?

Cheers!

DR

No, I've had no problems since you appeared in this thread.

Thanks.