OT...Flight Simulator sponsored ads popping up here?

[Duckie]

I guess a better title for this thread might be Flight Simulator related ads are popping up he Really!




I just started getting FS type ad banners popping up on the bottom of my screen. It happens every time I click on a new topic or thread. This is on my iPad which doesn't allow random pop ups in browser. This is only happening with SOH.

Has my, iPad OS been had or is SOH now doing this. Honest question here, not an accusation, so please, no snide remarks.

Thanks

[vortex]

Same for me on my iPad. It just started tonight and, whilst you can temporarily cancel them, they come back every time you move around the forum. Very annoying and, if deliberate, a bad idea as far as I'm concerned.

[PhantomP]

Also now encountering this problem win 7 64 IE 11.

[Duckie]

Thanks for the responses guys. My started just before I posted above and it is only affecting this web site. I hope the SOH is not doing this. It may have been infected by someones link in a thread. I clicked on a couple of sale links f on threads today. According to my search so far it appears to be some kind business spam that has been associated with Yahoo.

I hope someone comes up with a way get rid of it!

[Duckie]

Well, I've changed to Firefox for iPad and I've changed my password here but still get this extremely annoying pop up banner at bottom of page. It can be turned off but returns immediately when you change pages or forums or anything that requires a button push within the SOH site. It followed me here to this response page.

SOH is the only site doing this and, so far, all the pop adds are flight sim related.

Would love to see an admin comment re this problem

[Mach3DS]

I'm getting it now too. Very annoying. Using Android Chrome on my phone Galaxy Note 5.

[Portia911]

Same here on my iPad since the last couple of hours. :-(

[jankees]

No such probs on my android tablet, nor on my desktop...

[pfflyers]

I'm on a desktop pc and I'm not seeing this.

[Astoroth]

Not seeing it on desktop pc either. Must be particular to mobile browsers.

[huub vink]

Duckie,

It might be malware which causes this at your side, as I don't have any similar pop-ups (I've checked both, my desktop and smart phone). If you are unable to remove them, you perhaps can suppress them with add blocker.

Success, as I know it can be very annoying to sort things like this out.

Huub

[PhantomP]

Also now encountering this problem win 7 64 IE 11.

OK it seems to have gone away on my laptop,but still on my IPhone.

[Dutcheeseblend]

Might be an idea to check the latest installations on the device, even if you haven't done any. I had a similar problem with FSDeveloper 2 years back, then I encountered some unwanted software being installed just before I opened my browser, something like that. Uninstalled it and it's gone.

[Montie]

Nothing on my iPhone, iPad or Windows 10 desktop pc.

[scotth6]

I had a similar ad/malware occurrence a while back, which somehow affected Chrome. The only solution was to do a full uninstall and reinstall. The one I encountered was slightly different, ads would show up when you hovered over certain words in a forum's normal text. Strange thing was that only occurred in certain forums also. I discovered it using the FS Developer forum, and it was only there and on Avsim from memory. I uninstalled Chrome on my PC and phone, cleared everything with CCleaner, and then reinstalled. It was fine after that.

I have not yet noticed anything regarding this latest trouble.

Here is the post I started at FS Developer at the time:


http://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/thr...9/#post-723943


Cheers,

[flaviossa]

No issues here either. Nor in Android tablet and smartphone, nor in PC


Maybe a malware for ipads? (Just guessing)

[Quicksand]

I left the home page to view this thread. Now I've got it. Chrome on Android phone. 🤔

[Ickie]

I checked with 3 browsers and do not get any, must be at your end.

[Ickie]

just tried my surface 2 pro M$, lol and no issues here either

[Duckie]

Thanks for all the replies. My iPad still has it this AM. If any body comes up with a solution please post it here. I will also be looking for one and do the same if I find one.

Steve

[Ickie]

right click the ad and copy the info on it and pm me the details

[Ickie]

when i run the right click code pm to me I get this

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[Ickie]

I PM dangerousdave and told him to also look into this as well

[Duckie]

when i run the right click code pm to me I get this

Unfortunately, according to what I've found on the web, this malware constantly changes its address so no one has been able to open its location. Also according to the web it is associated with a site called media.net and is distributed by Yahoo and Bing which I don't use and no accounts with either. It has a reputation for being a particularly nasty app that makes $$ for the pushers each time the banner appears.

As I stated earlier, it is only appearing on SOH. So far, it seems to have only infected some of us who use mobile devices to access SOH from time to time. I'm no PC guru, but I believe I got this by clicking on a link in the sale thread. That, of course, is no fault of SOH. And the person posting the link probably didn't know it was infected. And, so far, my PC has not been affected. As a precaution I will not click any 3rd party links here going forward until its been determined where this came from and how to get rid of it.

Still researching. Any and all help in resolving this is very much appreciated.

Thanks,

Steve

[Tim-HH]

I'm having the exact same problem. But only on my iPhone. PC and iPad are fine. I asked my brother to open SOH with his iPhone. He never before visited this site and also sees the ads. So it's really weird.



I've send you the link, Ickie


Gretings
Tim