The first time I thought my eyes were playing tricks on me, but it happened again. When replying to a post, the intermediate screen ("We are taking you back...") showed an ad with the words "naked asian girls."
But it's a transitory screen and I can't get a screenshot or even read the whole ad, so I can't be sure that's what it said. I'm assuming google screens these things, so I thought I'd post my observation in case the mods want to look into it.
Dagonee
Posted by beatnix19 (Member # 5836) on :
well, I'm replying just to see what you're talking about Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
it isn't the normal google ads? (observing very carefully as I reply)
AJ
Posted by beatnix19 (Member # 5836) on :
hmm... didn't see anything on my return page
Posted by Khal Drogo (Member # 6786) on :
I'm not seeing anything
Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :
nope didn't happen to me. Maybe its something getting past your firewall?
AJ
Posted by TheTick (Member # 2883) on :
That would be intersting...
Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :
I don't see it....
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Dag, It is obviously your conscience calling you. Would you like to share with the group what is going on?
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
Wow, mention porn, get 6 replies in under a minute.
Dagonee *Testing again. Edit: There are google ads there, but now it's just the normal OSC ads...
[ August 20, 2004, 02:51 PM: Message edited by: Dagonee ]
Posted by Bob the Lawyer (Member # 3278) on :
*fingers crossed*
Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
Testing...
Nuthin'
(Obviously, Google is learning our individual tastes via spyware and other evil invasive snoopers. Interesting that Dag gets porn ads and I get science fiction ads. Very interesting indeed...)
[ August 20, 2004, 02:53 PM: Message edited by: sndrake ]
Posted by dkw (Member # 3264) on :
Replying just to test . . .
edit: nope.
[ August 20, 2004, 02:51 PM: Message edited by: dkw ]
Posted by Jutsa Notha Name (Member # 4485) on :
I see no google ads at all.
Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :
I just see cranky Mormon girls when I hit reply in threads. I say count your blessings.
Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :
And occasionally Hobbes, but that's it.
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
My theory is looking more likely every second.
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
Man, try to do the right thing and everyone thinks badly of you... (I can't tell if sndrake thinks badly or is just jealous.)
Although, if it's doing it by IP address, I am on the school's LAN right now.
Dagonee
Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
quote:Wow, mention porn, get 6 replies in under a minute.
Well, I'll bet this is more fun than a couple of pages worth of explaining and defending Catholicism.
[ August 20, 2004, 02:57 PM: Message edited by: sndrake ]
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
"doing it"
See what I mean, Dag? You just can't get the porn out of your mind.
Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :
quote: Although, if it's doing it by IP address
You said 'IP'. *snicker*
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
Apparantly, I derailed all of Hatrack, not just one thread.
Now that's fluff!
Dagonee
Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
I haven't noticed it.
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
I haven't noticed it since I posted, naturally.
Edit: But the ad for this post was "Grow Wild!"
[ August 20, 2004, 03:11 PM: Message edited by: Dagonee ]
Posted by Lupus (Member # 6516) on :
I saw an add for adult science fiction stories on hatrack once...it was also on a reply page.
btw, what thread was it on? Sometimes they read the content of the thread and match the posts to the thread content.
[ August 20, 2004, 03:12 PM: Message edited by: Lupus ]
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
The Microsoft/Iraq thread.
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
"You said 'IP'. *snicker*"
Can't stop giggling.
Posted by ak (Member # 90) on :
Sometimes popup porn ads can install themselves on your computer, and pop up at random times no matter what you're doing later. Was the ad actually on the Hatrack page itself? Or a popup? You may just need to disinfect your system.
Though it's a shame to spoil the fun, so I will also suggest an alternate theory of freudian hallucinations. Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
It was in the same place as the other ads on the page, so it would have to have been one that substituted text for text - pretty smart ad program, I think.
Plus, I use Firefox.
It's possible, but it was a very good substitution if it was.
Dagonee
Posted by Bokonon (Member # 480) on :
Testing out the stealth feature of Hatrack...
-Bok
Edit: Dang, I apparently don't have Dag-like influence.
[ August 20, 2004, 03:43 PM: Message edited by: Bokonon ]
Posted by Jess N (Member # 6744) on :
Gotta see this for myself...
No naked asian women here, thank goodness!
All I get is OSC essay and SF novels...
[ August 20, 2004, 03:45 PM: Message edited by: Jess N ]
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
quote:Dang, I apparently don't have Dag-like influence.
Well, few do.
Posted by Bob the Lawyer (Member # 3278) on :
Only because they don't have Lexis and Westlaw.
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
I know how to make the best possible use of my assets.
Dagonee P.S., That's known as a floater, Elizabeth.
Posted by Bokonon (Member # 480) on :
Yeah, I try to get by on my good looks too, Dag.
-Bok
Posted by Chris Bridges (Member # 1138) on :
Wondering if Dagonnon's assertations should be considered "dagma"...
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
Dagonnon - the rarest Pokemon.
Also the loudest.
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
Dag - what browser do you use?
FG
edit: forget that - I see where you answered it already
[ August 20, 2004, 04:22 PM: Message edited by: Farmgirl ]
Posted by punwit (Member # 6388) on :
*snicker* You said "Assets".
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
FG: I use Mozilla Firefox.
Posted by ghost of xnera (Member # 3920) on :
Sounds like malware to me. Though I've never heard of it being embedded in a webpage before.
*watches closely as she hits reply*
[edit] Science Fiction novels. No pr0n here.
[ August 20, 2004, 04:29 PM: Message edited by: ghost of xnera ]
Posted by Anthro (Member # 6087) on :
I dunno, you really gotta check your computer. Me, I bit some one's head off once on Hatrack 1830s because I thought they'd put porn links in their post. Turned out an e-mail I got had a virus attached that would apparentley scan text. For instance: in assets, the first three letters would be a link.
Hmmm. All I saw was an ad for a site you oculd buy term papers.
[ August 20, 2004, 04:57 PM: Message edited by: Anthro ]
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
"I use Mozilla Firefox"
Well, at least we know her name, but with you being a married man and all, this is rather disturbing.
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
Trying to make up for missing the assets joke, are we?
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
"We" passed that one by as being too EASY.
Posted by punwit (Member # 6388) on :
I'm not sure I appreciate being the butt of your disdain.
Posted by punwit (Member # 6388) on :
I feel like an apology of sorts is in order. The previous post was a bit teste and I hate it when my comments come across as cheeky
Posted by sndrake (Member # 4941) on :
This thread should be saved for posteriority.
Posted by punwit (Member # 6388) on :
Perhaps one of these * should go with it.
Posted by punwit (Member # 6388) on :
Hey drakester would some bungtuation help? I was thinking : posteriority.
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
quote:"We" passed that one by as being too EASY.
So difficult is better than funny?
[ August 20, 2004, 06:45 PM: Message edited by: Dagonee ]
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
I do not remember assking your opinion on this matter, Dag.
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
Oh, that was a low blow.
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Are you colon me mean or something?
Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :
[ August 28, 2004, 11:22 PM: Message edited by: TheTick ]
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
o_O
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
Is there some naughty use of the word "Ender" I'm not aware of?
Posted by TheTick (Member # 2883) on :
I'm trying to figure out what part of the thread triggered anything lesbian related for google ads.
Posted by Kayla (Member # 2403) on :
I'm trying to figure out why it won't show up when I click on the actual thread, but does when I click on the link to gamesmaq.dom. Hmm.
Posted by Rita Spankmistress (Member # 3484) on :
Hmm, this seems right down my alley. How could someone be doing this, without letting me know about it? Where's my Cat O' Nine Tails?
Posted by CaySedai (Member # 6459) on :
This just confuses me, because I've never seen the Google ads at the bottom of the page ... don't know why, don't plan to ask for them ...
but I had to reply to see if I see anything now ...
edited to add: nope, still nothing
[ August 29, 2004, 12:33 AM: Message edited by: CaySedai ]
Posted by Lupus (Member # 6516) on :
Kayla, Because the adds at the bottom of the page change constantly. The screenshot is a picture of a time when that particular add was showing up at the bottom of the page...chances are 5 minutes later the add was gone, replaced by a different add.
Posted by Noemon (Member # 1115) on :
Maybe some lewd ad distributor put a back door into Google's ad selection software.
Posted by Ron Lambert (Member # 2872) on :
You need to do a filesearch of your computer and see if you have XXXBAR or some similar trojan program like Xupiter, that got loaded into your computer without your knowledge when you visited a contaminated or booby-trapped website. XXXBAR will corrupt your browser and produce a whole new toolbar, with links to porn sites. It and Xupiter and similar programs will also generate popup ads. While you are at it, if you got any trojans, then you also need to check for spyware infecting your computer--programs like "WebRebates" (Xupiter is also spyware) since they will actually gather information from your computer and send it to some site via your internet connection where this information is being gathered, all without your knowledge.
The original problem was that trojans (unwanted programs) got into your computer. There are programs designed specifically to hunt for and eradicate these programs. Firewalls help to detect them and keep them out. The first time I realized I had WebRebates lurking in my computer was when I just intalled the McAfee firewall program, and next time I booted up the computer, it told me that: "WebRebates1 is trying to gain access to the Internet--should this access be granted or denied?" Of course I said denied, and then I searched my file system for all related files and deleted them. (Some I actually had to delete by first rebooting in MSDOS mode, because while I was running Windows, I was not allowed to delete WebRebates0.exe or WebRebates1.exe because the file was "protected or in use.")
Posted by MaydayDesiax (Member # 5012) on :
I wonder...
Since OSC ads keep popping up at the bottom, maybe if we have more threads like this porn ads' pop up.
Posted by Yozhik (Member # 89) on :
testing...
Posted by Troubadour (Member # 83) on :
"free Publishing Guide" and "Write your fiction novel" for me.
Posted by advice for robots (Member # 2544) on :
*snicker*
You said "booby-trapped"!
Posted by TheTick (Member # 2883) on :
That's odd. I'll run ad-aware when I get home. I don't have any of the search bars or other symptoms though. Strange. Funny though. Posted by Ron Lambert (Member # 2872) on :
Some more trojans to look out for (popup ad generators and spyware) are: msbb.exe, sahagent.exe, 180solutions.exe, nCase.exe, DotNow.exe, FIZ1.exe, FIZ2.exe, FIZ3.exe. Also watch out for their associated .dll files.
Some of them, when you try to delete them, will resist deletion, and you will get a message like: "file is being used by Windows." (msbb.exe will do that). You have to reboot the computer in MSDOS mode and delete them using DOS commands. Just calling up the DOS prompt while still in Windows will not work. You have to reboot the computer in DOS mode. Then after you finish deleting, you can type WIN to load Windows.
[ August 30, 2004, 01:53 PM: Message edited by: Ron Lambert ]
Posted by TheTick (Member # 2883) on :
Figured it out, I think. It's Claria, or what evil evil Gator has renamed itself. It's blasted away now.
For others edification, some spyware/adware will not only create extra popups, but can hijack other more legitimate ads.
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