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riverside6
07-22-2008, 10:22 PM
First, I'm almost positive that this is something to do with my laptop, and not DBR. DBR looks fine on my desktop, but some weirdness has started happening with ads on DBR and other sites, including my own (scacchoops.com). On my particular site, I do not use Google Adsense, but it still shows Google Ads.

Here is the image, notice how the ad on the right is stretched to the 468x80 shape.

http://www.scacchoops.com/images/dbr screen.jpg

I'm fairly certain I have some sort of spyware, virus, etc that is causing this, but I have run AVG, Symantec, AdAware, Windows Defender and none are finding anything. I just updated my laptop to Windows XP SP3, but I don't think that is related.

When I view source on the page on my laptop and desktop, the laptop source shows a few extra lines of javascript including an iframe for pointing to the following URL...
src="http://75.126.8.85/ad.php?width=468&height=60"


So, two questions...
1. Does anyone else see something similar?
2. Anyone have any ideas what may be going on?

This is really starting to irk me, and I have a feeling whoever caused this to happen is somehow benefiting from spoofing Google Ads and making money off of it which makes things that much worse!

riverside6
07-23-2008, 08:32 AM
I used hijackthis and it pointed out 2 domain hijacks causing the problem. After removing and removing a couple strange items from startup, all is now well.