Another complaint about ads

[Gruftlord]

just a minute ago an ad for "brave little beasties" opened up two windows in separate tabs despite me having popupblockers.

 

i'll not go into a rant about the ads on the site this time, because the last months they generally have been ok, and i'm confident it's just a bad black sheep this time.

 

someone might want to look into this, i'll drop my nexus exlusion for the time being from my adblocker until i hear news about it

 

best regards

Gruftlord

 

edit: boy oh boy, i thought it was the nexus loading slow. nexus is super fast and responsive now without ads.

Edited November 21, 2013 by Gruftlord

[bben46]

Your browser may have been hijacked by a malware that substitutes ads. The most common one I know of is called Conduit - it claims to somehow be a ligitamate browser helper and is installed along with a lot of FREE programs and even some fairly well known programs.

 

It usually shows up by changing your browser home page, adding a useless toolbar - uses Conduit search instead of the search you thought you were using and in general being a nuisance - It's easy to change your home page back and to disable the toolbar - and nearly impossible to get rid of the rest. Many antiviruses do not flag it.

 

If you think that may be your problem here is a site that may be able to help. http://botcrawl.com/how-to-remove-conduit-search-malware/

[Gruftlord]

thank you for the suggestion. but this is not the problem here. my browser is clean. no redirects, no toolbars. i regularly use CCleaner, and i just checked my start up and firefox start up entries again, and there is nothing inside that does look fishy. same goes for my firefox plugins. a bunch of chemisty stuff, MS office, nvidia 3d vision, the usual video players, java and adobe.