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popups and viagra ads?

VirtualLarry

VirtualLarry

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Navigated to forums.anandtech.com, got greeted with a pop-up ad (and IE7 prompted to allow another popup).
Logged in, and got greeted with a normal tech ad, refreshed, and I got an ad for pills, offering free viagra with purchase.

What's happening here?
 
Originally posted by: VirtualLarry
Navigated to forums.anandtech.com, got greeted with a pop-up ad (and IE7 prompted to allow another popup).
Logged in, and got greeted with a normal tech ad, refreshed, and I got an ad for pills, offering free viagra with purchase.

What's happening here?
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What porn site did you leave before coming here?
 
Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
Originally posted by: VirtualLarry
Navigated to forums.anandtech.com, got greeted with a pop-up ad (and IE7 prompted to allow another popup).
Logged in, and got greeted with a normal tech ad, refreshed, and I got an ad for pills, offering free viagra with purchase.

What's happening here?
Click to expand...

What porn site did you leave before coming here?
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Pm me the link also.... I need some new ones.
 
Originally posted by: oldsmoboat
Originally posted by: VirtualLarry
Navigated to forums.anandtech.com, got greeted with a pop-up ad (and IE7 prompted to allow another popup).
Logged in, and got greeted with a normal tech ad, refreshed, and I got an ad for pills, offering free viagra with purchase.

What's happening here?
Click to expand...

What porn site did you leave before coming here?
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Funny, but it was definately AT forums that were serving the ads. I don't browse pr0n on that computer.

I have screenshots.

Edit: Happened again today on this machine. Owner says he ran CCleaner on the box, which should have cleared out the cookies. IE didn't even remember forums.anandtech.com, so something was cleaned out.

 
I have never had any pop up from anandtech that I can remember so unless I didn't hear the pop up blocker there is something wrong with the computer.

Clearing cookies alone will not do anything.
 
Originally posted by: SagaLore
You are definitely infected with something that is swapping your ads.
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No, I'm really not.

I did, however, come up with a potential explaination.

This is a house with multiple PCs, quite a few in fact. All connected to one router, sharing one IP address. Perhaps someone else in the household had browsed some pr0n lately, and then the IP address got associated with that content in some ad-serving system, and that's why the ads came up as they did.

That's my only explaination at this point. Like I said, I do have screen-shots on that PC, but I have some trouble getting them off of that machine.
 
Originally posted by: VirtualLarry
Originally posted by: SagaLore
You are definitely infected with something that is swapping your ads.
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No, I'm really not.

I did, however, come up with a potential explaination.

This is a house with multiple PCs, quite a few in fact. All connected to one router, sharing one IP address. Perhaps someone else in the household had browsed some pr0n lately, and then the IP address got associated with that content in some ad-serving system, and that's why the ads came up as they did.

That's my only explaination at this point. Like I said, I do have screen-shots on that PC, but I have some trouble getting them off of that machine.
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Have you ran software like ad-aware, ect? Because that really does sound like typical spyware operating procedures. Who's to say that someone in the household didn't use your computer without you knowing it?
 
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