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Thu 12 Feb, 2004 12:59 am
Craven, what do you think of this ad:
www.burstnet.com/gifs/winguides_rm_recommended_download_banner_021004.gif
which links to this page:
www.winguides.com/software/download.php?id=42&ref=Burst
When the winguides page loads, it immediately attempts an .exe download. Not that I think their software is anything malicious (although I haven't tried installing it), but in case you don't want immediate download prompts I thought I'd report it.
I'm not going to click on it!
Its benign. Pushy, mebbe, linking directly to the download page instead of the outfit's splash page, but benign. WinGuides is a reputable firm, and their products are safe and reliable, with generally good reviews. They've been around for several years ... since at least the mid-'90s, I think, in their current incarnation. Their forum is a pretty good information resource.
As long as the ad itself has no prompt I am not too concerned.
My personal guideline is no download prompt here on A2K ever. We won't do it and won't ever let advertisers do it.
But what they have on their site is their prerogative. It's just a bit pushy as Timber says, and since it's pushy on their site (and not here) I don't mind.
Now if it were a known malicious (or even just spyware) program they'd be blocked whether or not they prompt on their site.
I edited out "[answered]" from this thread's title. Feel free to add it again (or I will) after reading the following...
Craven, would you want to remove this ad banner...
http://cserver.mii.instacontent.net/fastclick/cid9567/media30833.gif
which links to...
http://media.fastclick.net/w/click.here?cid=9567&mid=30833&sid=11529&m=1&c=0
and redirects here...
www.creditgift.com/landings/landing_red_01.jsp?&product_id=11&pid=3&cid=895&lid=100
..?
It one of those horrible, flashing "WINNER!!! You've just WON a FREE..." ads.
I filtered out that campaign, thanks for the heads up. It'll take up to an hour to be removed from the rotation.
BTW, there's a new network 24-7 media. So if you see ones with "realmedia" it's the new fellas.
Hey Craven, I just got a pop-up (File Download prompt) to download "burst.js" from "results.cafefind.net" when an ad for a LA.Com contest came up in the right side ad bar.
Thanks, off to hunt bad advertisers.
Wasn't LA.com to the best I can tell. Sounds to me like it was more of a malfunction than anything else. It's have to be real ugly scumware for a Javascript to be worthwhile for a prompt.
IMO it was a remote javascript for the actual banner display gone awry.
Please lemme know if ya see it, and please let me know whats's in the 480X60s aas well. If they are image (and not flash) you should also be able to tell me what network, that would really help, as we use many and it's really really hard to narrow them down.
Okies. Nothing came up in the 480X60 ad space on that particular page but I'll keep an eye out if it comes up again.
Hmm you mean a blank space? If anything sounds like that was the culprit.
If it does can you right click on the blank space and check the url in the properties? Even if nothing loads it's an iframe so it might load the page that's supposed to load the ad. Knowing what page could solve it.
I tried right clicking up where the ad space should be but it was like nothing was there at all. The "properties" listed were for the entire A2K page instead of a banner ad.
That's the first time I've ever seen anything like that here. I has just clicked on the "Unanswered" threads link and it came up with the new page of unanswered threads.
That's really odd, it should at least have pointed to
http://www.able2know.com/ads/adframe.php?n=ada3e762&what=zone:69
If you look at the page source, there's a burst.js external javascript that loads off of a2k. This is for the burst network ads. Any chance that was it?
Sounds like that's exactly what it was....
Wonder why it promped you for download... I can't even imagine how that would be possible.
It downloads and executes every time the page loads, just like any javascript, and shouldn't prompt....
I got a couple and ignored until I saw you guys posting.
Just picked this up - only place I been is here - I/S was just here for about 45 minutes cleaned everything up and wham bam..
http://pics.ebaystatic.com/aw/pics/promo/ushppopoutwin/ES.HD-WildOrchidQuilts-StartingAt44dollars-
ES.HD-WildOrchidQuilts-StartingAt44dollars-PlusFreeShipping-275x300.gif
husker,
Can you elaborate? What does "picked this up" entail?
Seem to be popping up on my screen just got another from TrafficMarketplace
http://spe.atdmt.com/b/AAAVEWEWAWWA/720x300_red_carbs_static.gif
Husker, IMO what you describe is not related to A2K.
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