Pop Up Ads in the Forums

[Mandella]

Almost every time I visit the forums, I get a pop up ad (usually circuit city or verizon) that won't clear off of my screen. Then, the message "out of memory at line 56" which I have to click "ok" to get to clear off. The advertisement remains, and I end up having to close the whole window. It takes some effort to even get the window to close. It literally freezes up my whole works.

I usually have multiple Internet windows open at the same time, and the other ones remain totally fine. It's just the forums.

I'm almost to the point where I'll just stay on the main page, because this sucks.

I mentioned this in Chatbox last week, and before I got to see anyone's reply, I got locked up and had to reboot. :help:

[Dakota Valkyrie]

I've never had a pop-up on D'D. I use pop-up blockers so that may be the reason.

[Morbid]

There are NO pop-ups on this site. You have an issue with your PC. We run two ads...AdBrite, who uses no pop-ups...and Amazon, who also use no pop-ups. That's it. Any other ads that pop-up would have to be placed by me, which we never do. If you are unsure, check out the ad that is getting popped up...if it is not from AdBrite (which it couldn't be anyway) or Amazon (see AdBrite) then you are a victim of Spyware, Adware, etc. Get it cleaned up.

[Lizard]

Mandella, some other folks have been getting popup ads, but Morbid said they are NOT coming from this site. (Unless the forums have been hijacked or something. Can you even do that?)

Dammit, Morbid is too fast.

[Jaded]

I have never had a pop-up on this site...but I did get a talking ad this morning. Scared the crap outta me.

Mandella, if you are getting pop-ups often, you might want to run AdAware on your computer. That might tell you where they're coming from and get rid of the problem.

[Countess Olenska]

there was a Circuit City add at the top with a roll over pop up.

[Morbid]

I have never had a pop-up on this site...but I did get a talking ad this morning. Scared the crap outta me. If you're getting them often, you might want to run AdAware on your computer. That might tell you where they're coming from and get rid of the problem.

Adbrite (adbrite.com) is an ad server. What that means is that I don't choose which ads run...hence a talking ad may show up. But there are no pop-ups from them at all.

We run two ads on the forums. One in the header, one in the footer. That's it. the front page, however, uses the exact same ads, but just a different size and location.

[Jaded]

Adbrite (adbrite.com) is an ad server. What that means is that I don't choose which ads run...hence a talking ad may show up. But there are no pop-ups from them at all.

We run two ads on the forums. One in the header, one in the footer. That's it. the front page, however, uses the exact same ads, but just a different size and location.

The talking ads don't bother me....I hit those fuckers everywhere I go on the net. Just gotta remember to keep the volume down. ;)

[Morbid]

The talking ads don't bother me....I hit those fuckers everywhere I go on the net. Just gotta remember to keep the volume down. ;)

I have not had it yet, so next time anyone sees it, let me know what ad it is and I can get it blocked.

[Rotten Apple]

I'm just glad they moved on from that lady shaking her tits at me and that one guy wanting to show me his "stimulus package."

I like my ads to run a fresh batch of skeezes every so often. I get bored pretty quickly.

[w8ng4msrgt]

I also had a problem with pop-ups last week. The sites were:
trashpretty.com
adserving.cpxinteractive.com
webridestv.com

When I blocked pop-ups from all sites on FF I would get that little warning box saying that it had blocked 2-3 pop-ups from this site.

It hasn't happened to me again since last Thursday or Friday. I have noticed though that most of the time the header ad is blank except for the 'your ad link'. The footer for Amazon is always there.

I am just chalking it up to the server problems last week and hope it doesn't happen again.

[impqueen]

hehhh... trashpretty. That should be my new user title.

[Morbid]

Thanks for the actual ads, W8. I'll check with Adbrite and see if they are aware of anything.

[Countess Olenska]

I just got slammed with pop-ups. Here they are.

http://www.tabrio.com/?cmpid=13

http://ads.trashypretty.com/webrides728.html

Smashits.com

Onlinerewardcenter.com

antispywaremaster.com

This is the only page and tab I have open.

First time I've gotten so many at once. I was on the main forum page and I just refreshed.

[Pete Bondurant]

All I get are Viagra adds.


How do they know? :embarassed:

[Morbid]

I just got slammed with pop-ups. Here they are.

http://www.tabrio.com/?cmpid=13

http://ads.trashypretty.com/webrides728.html

Smashits.com

Onlinerewardcenter.com

antispywaremaster.com

This is the only page and tab I have open.

First time I've gotten so many at once. I was on the main forum page and I just refreshed.

That's the issue. These are not ads we server, or that Adbrite serve from what I can tell. In fact, Onlinerwardcenter is a scam site if I am not mistaken. These would not be offered by Amazon or Adbrite.

[polis]

whenever i use vista os I get pop ups when I click on threads but lately i've been using my slackware and i don't get them anymore.

It's the same sights mammasweets listed.

btw i use firefox and Opera. I don't touch IE

[brokenandtwisted]

Are any of you using Firefox? I've never gotten a pop-up while on this site while using Firefox.

[petrina]

i just got a circuit city. was in the new posts list and clicked on a thread and it interrupted bringing up the thread to bring me the ad. it is like it got tired of waiting for someone to click on the headline ad and it just barrelled thru and said "look at me!"

its not the first time it has happened. it only happens at this site. it will let me close it eventually.

[Countess Olenska]

Are any of you using Firefox? I've never gotten a pop-up while on this site while using Firefox.

I have vista and I am using firefox.

[Morbid]

Ads are now off for the day. If you are still getting pop-ups, let me know.

[Morbid]

Anyone experience any pop-ups today AFTER the time stamp of the post above this one?

[nurseronda]

i just got a circuit city. was in the new posts list and clicked on a thread and it interrupted bringing up the thread to bring me the ad. it is like it got tired of waiting for someone to click on the headline ad and it just barrelled thru and said "look at me!"

its not the first time it has happened. it only happens at this site. it will let me close it eventually.Same add hit me too. Was at the top of the page and the pop-up. Had to click on it three times just to get it to go away. If you don't it does just re-route you to their site.

[TheMorningStar]

Anyone experience any pop-ups today AFTER the time stamp of the post above this one?

Not a one! Thanks. Now I can still suck at Seator without the popups to blame.:p

[Morbid]

Any of you who were complaining about pop-ups still getting them???

[nurseronda]

Any of you who were complaining about pop-ups still getting them???Not now....Thanks Morbid!!!

[Morbid]

Don't thank me yet. It's not the ads that are causing the problem, it is how we are displaying them, I think. I am pretty sure these sites that are causing pop-ups are taking advantage of an outdated mod I use on the forums...a mod I turned off today.

The ads will be back...just minus any pop-ups...I hope. We'll see.

[nurseronda]

Don't thank me yet.
That's the problem Morbid, I have no thanks to give out. :cry:

[KamuiX]

I got hit with the Circuit City one a couple times a few days ago as well. Both times they froze up my browser and I had to use the task manager to manually shut down the browser. I haven't gotten any in the past couple days however, so looks like whatever you did worked, Morbid.

[SoUncool]

No problems whatsoevah. Had a pop up about 2 weeks ago switching from FP to forums but only the one and hasn't happened since. I'm glad you finally believed we weren't all liars Morbid! (just kidding)

[Countess Olenska]

Haven't had a single one...werd. You can quote me on that.

[Gilbrit]

Anyone experience any pop-ups today AFTER the time stamp of the post above this one?
I haven't had any problems with pop ups after the time stamp.
Thank You!
http://i324.photobucket.com/albums/k349/Gilbrit/Smiley/cartwheels.gif

[Morbid]

I am doing a little site design work over the next couple of days, including adding the header and footer ad back. The difference being that they will be coded into the actual header and footer instead of using the outdated plugin I was using before that did it for me.

I'll let you know when that is done (you will probably see me working on it) and we will see if the pop-ups return or not.

[Morbid]

You will start seeing slight changes in ad placement. Nothing too distracting. One in the header, one in the footer, one after the first post in a thread and possibly one directly after the Shoutbox.

That's ony four ads. Three will be served via Adbrite and Widgetbucks, the fourth will be Amazon. They shouldn't be too distracting. Currently, I am testing Widgetbucks in the footer.

Hopefully we will get to a point to where I can remove the donate link. But the ads are here for awhile I'm afraid. I'll tweak the fuck out of them though...too make them as unobtrusive as possible, yet still used in a way some of you may actually use them on occasion. I'll keep you updated.

[Lizard]

Hopefully we will get to a point to where I can remove the donate link.

Remove the link? WTF? What am I supposed to do with all that spare cash I have lying around then?

[Rotten Apple]

Never ever remove the Amazon one.

I click on that one constantly.

[Morbid]

Never ever remove the Amazon one.

I click on that one constantly.

I wont. Hell, I use it myself. That will be in the header or right below the shoutbox.

[SoUncool]

Ack! Just got two pops ups in the last 10 minutes. Wednesday, 2:43 pm EDT. One for sure was Circuit City Green Dog somethingorother.

[Morbid]

Ack! Just got two pops ups in the last 10 minutes. Wednesday, 2:43 pm EDT. One for sure was Circuit City Green Dog somethingorother.

Well, it cannot be anything I am doing. All I have in place are a footer ad and a first post ad. Those are coded specifically by me, directly into the template. They do not create pop-ups.

[nurseronda]

Well, it cannot be anything I am doing. All I have in place are a footer ad and a first post ad. Those are coded specifically by me, directly into the template. They do not create pop-ups.Yes, they are back, but are easier to click off now.

[w8ng4msrgt]

I am wondering if the users still having problems are using Netzero or the AOL browser? They have pop-ups built into them.

[Morbid]

Guys, I do not know what to tell you. I am getting NO pop-ups from any of my work PC's or home PC's. Never have. Might want to get a pop-up blocker or something, but again, they just are not originating from any of the ads I am running.

Not saying you are not getting them, obviously, as I believe you are. But I think that something in the forums is triggering something on your PC. have any of you experiencing pop-ups ran any type of Spyware\Adware detector? Like Spybot S&D (http://www.safer-networking.org/en/mirrors/index.html)? I'd be real curious as to your results, as it may keep me from beating my head against a wall.

[Countess Olenska]

I haven't gotten any...

[polis]

got HP pop up twice in my inbox. the link doesn't work. i clicked it by accident.

[WryBread]

I got one the other night, about two days ago. It was a talking ad, but set my Trend Micro-PCillin to flaming with accusations that I had tried to open a dangerous site. All I remember is a woman's voice saying very slowly, "You have been chose to win a laptop." I was moving from one place in the Forums to another. Next time I'll try to spend less time panicking and figure out where the ad is coming from. I run my virus/adware/spyware program about every other day, so it's not something that I've picked up over the past month.

[TheMorningStar]

Not saying you are not getting them, obviously, as I believe you are. But I think that something in the forums is triggering something on your PC. have any of you experiencing pop-ups ran any type of SpywareAdware detector? Like Spybot S&D (http://www.safer-networking.org/en/mirrors/index.html)? I'd be real curious as to your results, as it may keep me from beating my head against a wall.

As soon as I got popups hurting my arcade antics, I reinstalled Spybot S&D, updated it, immunized and scanned. I had previously uninstalled it because it wasn't getting along with my anti-virus.
My results were just some tracking cookies. Since you added some ads back again I have gotten 1 popup. Please note they have never been popup windows but rather flash based. Another note is that they seem to be mostly driven by a mouse over event in an ad banner.
Meh...I can deal with it so don't pull out too much hair, then again it hasn't screwed up a potentail high score yet.:p

[Morbid]

As soon as I got popups hurting my arcade antics, I reinstalled Spybot S&D, updated it, immunized and scanned. I had previously uninstalled it because it wasn't getting along with my anti-virus.
My results were just some tracking cookies. Since you added some ads back again I have gotten 1 popup. Please note they have never been popup windows but rather flash based. Another note is that they seem to be mostly driven by a mouse over event in an ad banner.
Meh...I can deal with it so don't pull out too much hair, then again it hasn't screwed up a potentail high score yet.:p

TMS, THANK YOU>. That makes way more sense. I can see rollover flash ads being in place. If there are any ads that are causing you issues, simply PM or email me and I can check them out and see if we can have them blocked.

Some of the sites mentioned earlier are not even a part of the ad network we are associated with, though. I upgraded the forums last night, so we are at the latest version. I just wanted to ensure we were not being taken advantage of by some type of security hole.

[WryBread]

10:30 PM EST -- Aug 14.

I just tried to connect the the DD page (not the forums) and had my computer go beserk. Multiple "dangerous site, don't open" windows opened and they all cited www.ad2.adecn.com (I think I got that right). On the lefthand lower corner of my screen the addresses for many, many places were spinning by rapidly. They were so fast I could only catch a few: www.mafia5.com, www.myprofileping.com, www.adyieldmanager.com.

My computer froze and now I am running my Trend Pc-cillin. The last time I did this, it found nothing, so I guess my computer is effectively blocking the stuff. However, I hate having my computer go into a spasm.

[Morbid]

It's not the site. If it was, everyone would be experiencing the issue. But they jusr are not. I run this site from four separate PC's throughout the week on two different OS and 3 different browsers. I have never gotten a pop-up or anything close to what you just described, Wrybread.

There just isn't anything for me to fix. The front page has had the same ads running on it for almost a year, and nothing has changed with them.

[Morbid]

Wry, just checked on one of the sites you listed.

What is ad.yieldmanager.com?
ad.yieldmanager.com is a spyware cookie that Tracks your personal information and browsing habits, as you surf the web. This information can be retrieved by the parent company. http://www.yieldmanager.com/

ad.yieldmanager.com Manual Removal Instructions
So you've discovered that you've been infected with ad.yieldmanager.com or other types of spyware. Now you want to remove it and prevent it from further damaging your computer. To remove ad.yieldmanager.com or other spyware components, please follow the instructions below.

Note: This ad.yieldmanager.com manual removal process is difficult and you run the risk of destroying your computer. We highly recommend you use SpyHunter's free ad.yieldmanager.com scan.


Find and Delete ad.yieldmanager.com Files:
yieldmanager.com
yieldmanager.txt
yieldmanager

This site has no affiliation with ad.yieldmanager.com. nor does Amazon or Adbrite.

[WryBread]

Well, that's depressing news. But thank you for the guidance on how to fix it. But why does it only happen when I'm at DD?

[Morbid]

Well, that's depressing news. But thank you for the guidance on how to fix it. But why does it only happen when I'm at DD?

I wish I knew. I have been searching around like crazy. The only thing I can figure, and admittedly I am guessing like hell, is that the pop-ups are triggered by code vBulletin uses. Something these types of adware programs look for to activate. Again, a guess. I will continue to investigate, though.

[Jaded]

I got my first 2 pop-ups ever, on this site, yesterday. I couldn't open the pop-up window completely because it was frozen for a bit, but this is the info I got from a mouseover.

webridestv.com
trashypretty.com

They appeared as soon as I logged in. They didn't totally freeze my computer, but they did stall it for a bit.

[brokenandtwisted]

If you change the level of privacy in your Internet options you won't get pop-ups with Firefox, I find. I used to get CapitalOne pop-ups continually, but not anymore.

Mine privacy is on "High" and I have a pop-up blocker on.

[Morbid]

We still have not pinpointed where they are coming from. But remember, there are talking ads (that's just something that I have to remove manually), rollover ads (see talking ads) and then the dreaded trashpretty ones. THOSE are the ones we are trying to find out the origin of.

We have updated all mods, the server is scanned for viruses, removed all old mods we are no longer using and lastly, removed the smilies (we got info that this may be the origin...some new smilies that were added),

I STILL am not getting them and I am running a few different PC's with different OS and different browsers so it makes it tough for me to troubleshoot. Thanks for all the help.

[ceisdsgil]

Morbid,
i don't get pop-ups at all from this site. i never have, in the few months i've been here. i am currently running vista, with firefox as my browser. my security is set to medium and i do have a firewall running. my virus scanner runs every night/morning and if something is picked up, it alerts me right away. i've had pop-ups on other sites, come up, but never here. thankfully.

~shadow

[crickett]

If you change the level of privacy in your Internet options you won't get pop-ups with Firefox, I find. I used to get CapitalOne pop-ups continually, but not anymore.

Mine privacy is on "High" and I have a pop-up blocker on.

Me too, I HATE pop-ups! Very distracting.

[brokenandtwisted]

Me too, I HATE pop-ups! Very distracting.

Yep. I'm on a different computer at the moment and just got a Circuit City pop-up. The advertisement was for Circuit City.

[Owd Scrat]

I use pop-up blockers and it blocks 99.9% of any pop-ups. About 5x now on this site I've had strange pop-ups that are like only half there, then when you try to close them they severly hose up your whole computer! I've had to restart a couple times.

The page starts freaking out and seizing. WTF?

[lilbay]

I was getting them real regular on forum for a bit. Since I sent the PM to Morbid it has slowed way down i did have two in DD front page when trying to check on the pedo nurse thread last night and another this morning when checking into the thread about the 9 idiots I think it was.

I am unsure why i am getting them but they are so bad I can not get anything to move in my machine I have to ctrl del alt into task manager and shut down everything.

I am running Vista home, IE7 and have pop up blockers on' I have only one toolbar which I am about to get rid of just to be sure it is not that.


i adore this site so I hope that it is that toolbar and it will all go away.
The address bar starts flicking addresses so fast for ad things that I can never see and write but will try to next time. (Hoping really there is no next time LOL)

[Morbid]

I am pretty sure the problem is Adbrite. Some of the banners they allow contain the code. I have now find a couple other sites having this EXACT problem...and they are using Adbrite.

Let me see what I can do. I would hate to go to just Amazon, as I do not think enough people will buy from them to cover our costs. But I may have to look into another ad solution.

[Harley_Tech]

I got my first pop ups today. I captured the adds and the pop up and sent them in a e-mail to you. I run FireFox, on an old XP pro machine if that matters.

Mcafee did not catch and stop them.

R

[Just my luck sucks]

The address bar starts flicking addresses so fast for ad things that I can never see and write but will try to next time. (Hoping really there is no next time LOL)

Same issue here, has happened a few times usually when I click to check notifications. It's like something has taken possession of my machine--have seen adbrite and prettytrashy flicker through (too rapid to catch/write them all down)

I run XP, and browse with either firefox or IE -- I have more issues when I try to read threads with IE, so have only been using firefox lately.

Wish I was more help.

[TheMorningStar]

I was getting quite a few - I even got a full screen one that had the skip ad link in the top right corner.

Using IE I have not got any for the past month after doing the following. I am sure there is an identical way to do it using FireFox.

First, search your drive(s) for yieldmanager and delete everything found.

IE7:
Go under the menu item "tools" and select "Internet Options". Select the "security" tab and select "Restricted Sites" Make sure the security level for the zone is set to "high" and click the "Sites" button. Add "*.yieldmanager" (no quotes - don't forget the *.).

I have not gotten a popup since.

[lilbay]

Well removed the Toolbar was not happy having it anyway so not really done because of this.
I just got slammed and had to task manager out of IE to get it to stop and unlock.

The site names were rolling past really fast and for the life of me i can not remember them all I know ad click and a few other things that started with ad were included in it. Sorry not overly helpful


i am sure if it came down to it all of the regulars can chip in some. I mean I do not have a lot of money but would be able to toss in a little every couple months. I have come to adore this place and call it home so i sure do not wish to see it go anywhere because of $.
At the same point these are not happening that often Thank heavens
This is the first I got since my last post.
So a task manager shut down of IE is not that big a deal if the ads are that important.

Whatever happens i am happy to help.
We could do a donation drive
I can make a couple graphics.

[Morbid]

I have it figured out. It's gonna take a bit of time, but I will have it fixed over the weekend. The entire problem has just been some 3rd party banner ads via Adbrite. Other sites have had the same issue. Give me a couple days and we should be ok.

To give more detail, Adbrite serves ads from all over the place. SOme our location specific or even time based. It is why some of you get the pop-ups and others do not. I can either manually approve or reject ads. Lately, I have been manually approving ads, but not really sure what to look out for aside from the foreign language ones. I have now been informed to stay away from 3rd-party ads (which we have running) as they are the ones that can cause the problems we have been experiencing.

I am going to remove ALL ads, and then slowly ad back all non-3rd party ads.

[Boondock]

You big cheater! I clicked on the link you put in the chat box and it automatically put my thanks on your post... I mean I was going to thank you, but this just cheapens it!

Glad to hear things will be back to the way they used to be, I was about ready to beat feet :P

[Morbid]

That's kinda funny. All I did was link to the actual post. Well...at least now I know who actually reads my shit. :P

[Morbid]

ALL 3rd party ads are gone. Let's see what happens now. If you have ever experienced problems with pop-ups and whatnot on this site, PLEASE clear out your cache and your cookies.

There may be some foreign language ads because I had to go and manually approve all ads...I may have missed a couple foreighn language ones...but what the hell, expand your horizons.

[Becca]

All I did was link to the actual post. Well...at least now I know who actually reads my shit. :P

I always read whatever you write, Morbid.

(insert ass-kissing sounds here)

:)

[MOGal]

I was getting a lot of the trashpretty pop ups also. I do have a pop up blocker and I've recently added AD-Aware along with my AVG security. It has slowed down over the last 3 days or so,..I'll pay more attention to what they are next time I see them.

[Jaded]

I've been getting some full page ads on the FP the last couple of days. Is anyone else getting them, or is it just me?? After the first couple of ads, I cleared my cache and ran AdAware. Even after that, I got another one just now.

One of them is from Crackle and the other ones were Free HD DivX.

[RaVen Blackehart]

When I use my Safari browser, I've been getting a noisy banner ad here, so I switched to Firefox for the site which has Adblock Plus installed and no problems since.

[Morbid]

Yeah, Full page ads are on at the moment. Testing to see if they are a more viable option than having the banners on the site. If they are, we will remove all the banners. If they are not, well, business as usual. You should only get one full-page ad every 24 hours or so...something like that. It may reset if you clear your cookies and cache...not 100 percent certain on that.

Watch the Penn and Teller one from Crackle, though. It's not bad. Talks about a magic trick he kinda messed up on Letterman. I like those guys.

[WhatThe]

The Penn and Teller one was the first one I got. Very tolerable.
And my computer didn't hate it, either.