I clicked on a forum section and...

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.

 

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

 

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?

 

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...

 

IE6

 

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

 

This should now be resolved.

 

US. IE6 (both computers).

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

 

Have you seen it since I posted above?

 

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

 

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.

 

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

 

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

 

& to satisfy your curiosity I will keep it a secret

 

Indeed, we need to be careful

 

Thou art evil.

 

Hi Micron,


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

Cheers!

DR