Apologies Cindy but now I'm getting advert banners....anyone else?

Denise · Senior Member

Apologies Cindy but now I'm getting advert banners....anyone else?

Cruising Granny · Guru

No not here.

Xtrail51 · Senior Member

Yep..Me too. confuse

seonau · Senior Member

Also got one Denise... I ran a spybot check and found a malicious cookies called "right media" That attended to right now every thing seems fine.

Denise · Senior Member

Ive had trojans and virus and email worms.....I think I should be dead with that lot! have done a cleanup but not too au fait with all this ,will see my friendly techie tmorrow just to be sure. Hope we aren't all going to get the flu!! Cheers :)

ballast2 · Guru

Seonau. What if the rain is veeeeeeerrrrry heavy and the umbrella is the size of a small tent?Cheers Jack.

seonau · Senior Member

Hi Jack....Under those circumstances one can always pretend to be middle aged, slow of step and sensible....temporarily of course.

Webmaster · Guru

Hi all,
Our forum is hosted by a third party and from time to time they sell advert banners which suddenly appear on our forum. Unfortunately, I cannot control the content of these banners - but some members have said that they were happy to just ignore them or to 'block popup boxes' in their browser.
There is an option of making our forum an 'ad free' place; however there is a cost involved which is currently over our budget. We may have another look at it later on in the year.

dave06 · Guru

yes but no winners on the banner this time so I'm dissapointed!!!

Denise · Senior Member

Thanks for that info Cindy, my McAfee said this site is clean, my problem came from elsewhere obviously .... guess I've become a bit twitchy after the nonsense struck!
Cheers,Denise :)

seonau · Senior Member

Banners can be sneaky things. They can be more than they seem. By setting a cookie in your browser they can track your individual likes and the sites you visit and where within those sites you go. From that it is possible to place banners up that are tailored to your very own likes. Clever hey! Banners especially for you !
One could always disable third party cookies...

dave06 · Guru

just one thing to add to that, the info is then gathered and sold on to partys that use this info to annoy the crap out of you in new and different ways

Cruising Granny · Guru

And then there's phishing.
My website ozcaravantagalong.com was taken off the air yesterday because someone had gone phishing. Another way of attacking good, clean sites.
Is there no end to what this crooks will do?
This wonderful technology is so useful and creates numerous opportunities, and then someone ducks and weaves around the anit-virus and spyware, and now you have to have "malware".
My computer was scanned and has been cleared of ever having the problems.
It came to our website through the host server.
So nothing is safe, not even forums.
If they can selectively add advertising banners, just what are they capable of?

Palebushman · Senior Member

Here is a link to some very handy Free tools that I have on my computers.

http://www.piriform.com/products

If you need any help with the CCleaner (Cache Cleaner) feel free to ask within this thread.

ballast2 · Guru

Seanou, Could that also include middle aged slow of step and inebriated pirates and their captured wenches? wet wenches could lead to all sorts of problems.
yours aye Jack.

Dawn · Senior Member

I thought fishing (phishing) was throwing a line with bait in the water and trying to catch a fish? Oh silly me - its 2010 Now I have to learn how to "Phish" What the *! is going on?
I'm afraid it gets more & more difficult to keep up with all this jargon.
Who said there was not a generation gap- there always will be. Bring back the "Olden Days" I say!
Oh well back to work, no phishing/fishing for me today!

dave06 · Guru

big learning curve these things, phishing and scamming, trolls, false email addys, pm's, IP addys

hell what happened to plain old talking to folks, confusing times indeed

Cruising Granny · Guru

Just this week ozcaravantagalong.com has been shut down by a phisher.
The web site host actually shut us down until the problem was fixed yesterday.
Damn nuisance to us and a serious threat to our computers.
My site partner and I have scanned our computers and neither had the bug.
It must have gone in through the host server.
Yeah I know it's jargon, and I'm now becoming bi-lingual. English and computer language.
There has been no threat to anyone on GN or any other contacts because my connection to my own site was shut down.
The good guys learn about these things and devise ways of beating them, and before you know it there's another bug on the system.
Just like hacking and viruses, these things have serious consequences to all who come in contact.
While the aim is to access personal information they often fail, and just create a nuisance while the hosts clean up their sites.
I now have "Malware" downloaded to add to my other security measures.
Take care everyone.

jimricho · Guru

If you're using Firefox, check out the "Flashblock" and Addblock" add-ons. Also don't click on the banner adds unless your spirit of adventure is more than mine is.

-- Edited by jimricho on Saturday 27th of February 2010 07:50:06 AM

Catweazle · Veteran Member

Webmaster wrote:
There is an option of making our forum an 'ad free' place; however there is a cost involved which is currently over our budget. We may have another look at it later on in the year.

http://www.fatcow.com/fatcow/special-promo.bml?offer=OPI&LinkName=best10ppc

A shared hosting service such as that'n is cheap as chips, plenty adequate for a small forum like this'n, and provides you with phpBB forum software easily installed and configured for use.

No ads involved unless you want to add them yourself.

Often, with shared hosting services, you can use a small ad for the hosting service on your site, and if people click through and sign up with the service themselves you get cost-free hosting as a result.

ActiveBoard's 'ad-free' service is rather expensive in comparison.