Popup ads on my website?
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NO pop-up ads are put on your 'site' (Web page) by x10hosting
what is the URL (Web address) where you 'see' these ads ?
www.gabereiss.com. Most of the pages are down right now because I tried to upload but it said "disk full, try later" even though Cpanel says I have plenty of space.
Please check again. The site is up and the ads are back. (www.gabereiss.com)
Another website I contribute to, hosted on X10 free hosting as well, is throwing ads up too (www.inboxcomics.com).
Thank you
Another website I contribute to, hosted on X10 free hosting as well, is throwing ads up too (www.inboxcomics.com).
Thank you
They are pop-up ads, and you have to click around a bit for them to come up, though it usually happens the first time you open the page. Make sure your own ad blocker is off.
It's definitely not my computer, as I've seen it on others as well.
It also doesn't happen every time–I'm struggling to replicate it right now myself!
It's definitely not my computer, as I've seen it on others as well.
It also doesn't happen every time–I'm struggling to replicate it right now myself!
If it's helpful, this is the website that I keep getting linked to:
http://majormacgenius.com/mac/ibr-3...551023782541987&fln=Home+-+GabeReiss.com&lr=1
http://majormacgenius.com/mac/ibr-3...551023782541987&fln=Home+-+GabeReiss.com&lr=1
A little more investigating: it's THIS site that actually pops up, then it shows the macgenius one. (this was from inboxcomics.com)
http://rdsa2012.com/static/lprdr.ht...nbox+every+day+your+selection+of+comics%2C+in
(and this was from gabereiss.com)
http://rdsa2012.com/static/lprdr.ht...12035551023729990797&fln=Home+-+GabeReiss.com
http://rdsa2012.com/static/lprdr.ht...nbox+every+day+your+selection+of+comics%2C+in
(and this was from gabereiss.com)
http://rdsa2012.com/static/lprdr.ht...12035551023729990797&fln=Home+-+GabeReiss.com
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I'm going to venture to bet you've got a rogue virus or something similar running either in your browser or on your home system; if it's new enough or unique enough it may not be getting caught by an antivirus/antimalware solution. The main reason I'm leaning toward this is that we don't insert random popups (and never have), nor did me searching through all files on the account for the phrase "rdsa2012" turn anything up - if it's caused by a file on the account, that should have identified it.
I also spent a good five minutes doing nothing but clicking links; I never received a popup warning or notification on either site, which combined with the absence of rdsa2012 in the code of any files within public_html leads me to believe either you've got something bad running on the machine itself, or if you're on a network you don't control that the network owner may be inserting ads on-the-fly (which is a sign of a terrible network operator, but this only applies if it's at a workplace, school, net-cafe, etc).
If it's happening on other systems as well, are they running on the same network? Any of the same plugins? Same browser? The only thing I can confidently say is it's not coming from our end of the connection, but that doesn't help isolate -where- it's coming from unfortunately
Edit: Bit more info, RDSA2012.com is displaying this when you view it directly:
Further clicking goes here:
This sounds like a plugin or other application causing it; it would also explain why I'm not seeing it, as the Windows 7 install I'm on right now is about 5 days old, with a very limited subset of programs installed, all of which I either personally coded or vetted for ad-serving junk like this
I also spent a good five minutes doing nothing but clicking links; I never received a popup warning or notification on either site, which combined with the absence of rdsa2012 in the code of any files within public_html leads me to believe either you've got something bad running on the machine itself, or if you're on a network you don't control that the network owner may be inserting ads on-the-fly (which is a sign of a terrible network operator, but this only applies if it's at a workplace, school, net-cafe, etc).
If it's happening on other systems as well, are they running on the same network? Any of the same plugins? Same browser? The only thing I can confidently say is it's not coming from our end of the connection, but that doesn't help isolate -where- it's coming from unfortunately
Edit: Bit more info, RDSA2012.com is displaying this when you view it directly:
Further clicking goes here:
This sounds like a plugin or other application causing it; it would also explain why I'm not seeing it, as the Windows 7 install I'm on right now is about 5 days old, with a very limited subset of programs installed, all of which I either personally coded or vetted for ad-serving junk like this
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Very interesting.
I know it's been a while, but the ads have now reappeared, after being gone for a month or so.
It's interesting because I've had several people tell me there are ads on my site, and they obviously are using different computers and different operating systems.
I do appreciate you looking into this for me, though! Anything else you can think of?
I know it's been a while, but the ads have now reappeared, after being gone for a month or so.
It's interesting because I've had several people tell me there are ads on my site, and they obviously are using different computers and different operating systems.
I do appreciate you looking into this for me, though! Anything else you can think of?
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You might want to check out this posting over at botcrawl.com: http://botcrawl.com/how-to-block-and-remove-revenuehits/
The usual culprit these days is free software installers (they often contain installers for unwanted toolbars and adware; you need to be very careful to deselect everything thaat wasn't the software you actually intended to install) and browser extensions (several extensions for both Firefox and Chrome were purchased from their originators by unscrupulous operators; they use the auto-update feature of the extension to put their crap on your machine). And, of course, the perennial favourites: cracked commercial software and keygens. Not everyone who offers somebody else's goods for "free" is actually a well-meaning arnarcho-libertarian, you know.
The usual culprit these days is free software installers (they often contain installers for unwanted toolbars and adware; you need to be very careful to deselect everything thaat wasn't the software you actually intended to install) and browser extensions (several extensions for both Firefox and Chrome were purchased from their originators by unscrupulous operators; they use the auto-update feature of the extension to put their crap on your machine). And, of course, the perennial favourites: cracked commercial software and keygens. Not everyone who offers somebody else's goods for "free" is actually a well-meaning arnarcho-libertarian, you know.
What's strange to me is that it is only on my own website, not any others that I visit. I keep a pretty clean machine, and malwarebytes says my mac is free of any adware or viruses. Perhaps it's something on the website, but on the server side and not client side?
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I took a look at your account and I do not see any signs of a server-side compromise that would be serving these ads. Try accessing your sites from different computers (for example, at the public library or via a Virtual Machine), if you do not see the ads there then that is highly indicative that there is something on your local computer that is causing the issue. Alternatively, you are possibly connected via a VPN or other proxy service that is injecting ads into the page on-the-fly, check your connection settings and consider securing your websites with HTTPS (such as via CloudFlare's offerings as HTTPS is not directly supported on x10free); if using HTTPS prevents the ads from occurring then that may indicate that there is a bad actor on your network. If they still appear, then that indicates something on your machine is causing it.
I'm on a mac so I used adwaremedic, which was just bought by Malwarebytes and is now integrated. I *do* use cloudflare already! I understand that it's probably on my side, but it just baffles me that the only time these ads show up is when I'm on one of the three websites that I have created through x10, which is what makes me think it's x10...
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