Advert on one of your pagesFollow

I don't always sign in from the same computer, so I sometimes have to put up with ads, this is fine, can live with that.

I know you only have limited control of over what adverts are shown on the site but one of the current ones is more than a little annoying, it pops up with a warning message in the bottom right of the desktop, about your computer being under threat, regardless of how you cancel it redirects you to their site - http://xpantivirus.com/2008/1/_freescan.php?aid=77011806 - I dunno if it's legitimate or not but it shouldn't be forcing you onto their site, if you hit back it just pops up again forcing me to go find my alla bookmark as it doesn't bother opening a new tab. Must be especially annoying for those non-premium users who it's happening to mid-post. :\

Edited, Feb 27th 2008 4:08pm by cococj

Hehe don't worry I have no intention of installing it, I do my own clear-ups manually usually, at best it's a poor advert and thought I'd alert admins to it if they weren't already aware.

As an update, we have talked to the ad ops about this and it was originally pulled but it looks like this sneaky site snuck in again. We are taking care of it tho.

Whether the advert was intentionally and legitimately served by the company alla uses to provide such advertising not whether the "product" was legitimate. As I also pointed out I hadn't run any scans or installed any part of it I'm fine thanks, I was simply informing the admins of the adverts existence.

Edited, Feb 29th 2008 9:33am by cococj