Deceptive adbanners on B3D

Since coming here again to read the various E3 related topics it came as a shock to me to see some adware crap installed on my IE. This only happens every time I visit B3D. Whenever IE is opened after that, random popups come up every so often even when im not at the B3D site. Ive narrowed it down to this server, so Im wondering...Is anyone else getting this?

 

Never in the 4 years i've been haunting this place. It seems ads are different depending on what part of the world you're in. For us UK guys, all seems to be fine, whereas some US (and other) people have been complaining about bad ads.

 

You really need to confirm this by running Adaware, Spybot or one of the newer virus scanners to see what you've got. Ideally you should clean your system and then see if one of the above products intercepts anything nasty as you browse B3D. That way you can confirm where it's coming from, which will actually be one of the adservers.

 

Just ran Adaware, I didnt notice anything out of the ordinary besides the various cookies you pick up while browsing the net. I dont seem to have it anymore though so hopefully whatever Ad did it to me wont be coming back. But if it does Ill be sure to report anything here. I was just wondering if someone else got it besides me.

 

I applaude the "True" ads I'm getting right now.

I simply love all the scantily clad girls telling me "it's nice to be naughty."

 

Ok, this is the second time this add is mentioned WITHOUT PICS!

 

I expect some rep love for this from folks who don't get them otherwise!

And possibly social conservative pickets at my house. . .

http://www.civilwarstlouis.com/true1.jpg
http://www.civilwarstlouis.com/true2.jpg
http://www.civilwarstlouis.com/true3.jpg
http://www.civilwarstlouis.com/true4.jpg
http://www.civilwarstlouis.com/true5.jpg
http://www.civilwarstlouis.com/true6.jpg
http://www.civilwarstlouis.com/true7.jpg
http://www.civilwarstlouis.com/true8.jpg

And I'm not keeping them up forever either, because my wife maintains that site too and eventually I'd have to explain I was just helping out my fellow man. . "Really, honey!"

 

More deceptive Ad Banners

I notice that recently on our "country targetted ads" here in the UK we've been getting all these "answer a question and win laptop/plasma TV/mobile phone etc" type ads. They pupport to come from various UK domains. Leaving aside all the business about giving all your personal info, being asked to do the same for people that you know, and giving permission for spam to be sent, why is the first thing in the terms and conditions:

or variations thereof? Basically these are ads targeted in the UK, pretending to come from UK companies, gathering all your personal info and all the info of your friends and colleagues you can be fooled into divulging, and then they do a standard "bait & switch" by making sure that every person they target is ineligible for any of the prizes on offer. Isn't that basically a confidence trick, and not something that B3D should be associated with?

I haven't seen the virus/trojans reported by forum members in other countries, but there's obviously some issues that need sorting out with your advertisers.

 

Speaking of which, I haven't read this forum in a long time. I saw the thread title, and was wondering if perhaps one of our users had clicked on the above mentioned links and found out that infact, the girls in question had some er... unexpected attributes that they felt rather strongly about.

Nite_Hawk

 

I generally don't care about ads, unless they make a sound or pop over on mouse over. I kill those immediately (the last one was a pop over on mouse over from Microsoft last week).

Then again, I never, ever click them either. Is AdBlockPro able to click them for you if they're on your white list, while making sure nothing pops up? If it isn't, is there something that is?


Edit: if that first action isn't getting rid of the ad, I block the ad site.

 

Hmm, sorry to dredge up ghosts but.. is this site legit or something? Seems kinda bogus on a graphic card review site...

The copy on the ad (found on the b3d frontpage) reads "Top 10 Graphic Cards ***** Which Graphic Cards Are Best? Alll The Brands Reviewed"

I checked the link but it said their bandwidth had been exceeded!

 

Seems like it was just a harvester for ad link clicks, at least on the surface. We'll investigate and see what's what, cheers for bringing it to our attention.

 

No prob, my pleasure... and now that i think about it, one or two of these a year is prtty damn good, nice job, guys