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I can't stand autoplay video ads especially when two of the same friggin ads play on the same page!!! I am getting tired of muting the videos every time I click to read an article. I don't know how much $$$ you guys get for the video ads but unless MPC's survival depends on them please do away with them.

PS. Hostway div ad popped up two times WHILE I am writing this post...

These ads are not a good way to get people to come to/stay on this site. I usually check MaximumPC several times a day just to see what's new. That's not going to happen anymore until those annoying ads go away. I would have thought the MPC staff would know better.

I haven't seen any video ads, or ads that redirect to malware. I'd suggest that you really check your machines for malware infections. I'm on the site way more than anyone else, so if I haven't seen them, I have to think it's a trojan or something hijacking the ads.

As far as ads with malware is concerned, Will .. in my opinion .. given the number of reputable and very IT-savvy regular members who've had problem, I don't think it is a problem that you should dismiss out of hand.

Having said that .. I haven't had a problem with malware either.

Are your ads targeted to the user somehow?

the audio ads where the reason I made my way to the forum. They seem to have just started in the last couple days. Video ads are fine, but not when they automatically start playing music or talking.

Has happened on multiple machines, I don't think they all got infected at the same time. Video's ok, playing sound be default, not the greatest.

Okay, rather than just complain I've done a bit of checking. The video ads appear on my main PC while using Firefox, but not IE8. I've scanned my PC with House call, Microsoft Security Essentials and Malwarebyte's Anti-Malware. All came back negative. I then checked the site on two more desktop PCs and one laptop. It happened on one of the other desktops but not on the other machines. That was until I hit the refresh button. The ads started showing up on all of the PCs when using Firefox, but not IE. With IE I got a box with a red X in it where those ads would have been if they were playing. So, I scanned all of the PCs and none showed an infection. These ads are usually in the upper right of the white area of the site and hitting refresh will cycle them on and off the page. I also noticed I was getting a non-video ad for debt problems. This isn't the usual type of ad I'm used to seeing on MPC and makes me think that something else is going on here. Again, the last ad I mentioned will cycle on and off the home page if I hit refresh while using Firefox. IE just gives me a box with a red X.

One other thought: This doesn't happen on any of the other tech sites that I visit regularly. My point is that it would likely happen on other sites if my machine was infected.

I hope this information helps.

I just had the video ad hit when I was using Firefox. It's entirely possible that I haven't seen them because I've been running Chrome.

AFAIK, the ads are geotargeted (Euro readers see something different than US readers).

Regardless, I'll talk to the ad traffic folks again tomorrow and see if I get anywhere. They swear up and down that both malware and autoplay ads are blocked by a number of our third party providers.

What about getting redirected to fake av sites from the forums?

Happened to me twice on two different computers w/ two different os's and two different browsers.





Ted

Same! There's NO WAY it's just because I'm infected. It happened on FireFox on my Win7 64-bit machine, AND my Win7 32-bit laptop with FireFox, at around the same time. It also happened running FireFox with that same laptop booted into Ubuntu 9.10 (of course it can't infect it, but that also pretty much proves it's not malware).
EDIT: Also, this doesn't happen on any other site at all. I would have to think if it were malware, it wouldn't do this only when I'm on this site.

I've been getting the loud audio/video ads today. Once there are two a/v ads playing at the same time. They were a Mucinex "Interactive Advertisment" and a Youtube music video. The two at once were two Mucinex ads playing out of sync by about a half second. I normally play streaming radio or video or watch on my TV card when I'm online at home, so turning off my speakers is not an acceptable option.

Good. While you chat, tell those ass-canoes that I'm sending them a bill for my rebuild last week.

Everyone else gets this using Firefox (except me )
Did you convert or is you getting hit using IE??

I got hit with IE - adblock disabled.