Something fishy... ads on the board?


WizardStan

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Does anyone else see advertisements on the top and/or left side of this topic?

http://boards.openpandora.org/index.php/topic/9912-how-to-select-wifi-access-point-in-mini-menu/

The page loads, then a couple seconds later the ad loads, right below the Pandora logo. It feels like an html injection but I have no idea where it's coming from. At first I thought it was ED trying to test a new revenue stream but this is the only topic I've found that it appears on. Since it is not in the raw html but it is in the dom as the very last thing before the end of the body I'm definitely going to go with an injection of some kind.

I'm running Chromium Version 20.0.1132.47. I haven't installed any extensions recently or anything like that but if no one else sees it then I'll have to dig deeper.
 
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I just turned off Ad Block to see what you were talking about and my anti-virus went mental.
 
Ok, turns out I do have an extension: "SaveAs v2.4". I have apparently had it since August 20th. People have been complaining about it all over the place so it's kind of strange to me that it only just now activated. I'm very suspicious both of how I got it and WHEN it claims to have been gotten.
 
Does anyone else see advertisements on the top and/or left side of this topic?http://boards.openpandora.org/index.php/topic/9912-how-to-select-wifi-access-point-in-mini-menu/]http://boards.openpandora.org/index.php/topic/9912-how-to-select-wifi-access-point-in-mini-menu/The page loads, then a couple seconds later the ad loads, right below the Pandora logo. It feels like an html injection but I have no idea where it's coming from. At first I thought it was ED trying to test a new revenue stream but this is the only topic I've found that it appears on. Since it is not in the raw html but it is in the dom as the very last thing before the end of the body I'm definitely going to go with an injection of some kind.I'm running Chromium Version 20.0.1132.47. I haven't installed any extensions recently or anything like that but if no one else sees it then I'll have to dig deeper.
I got a virus one time that just stuck ads on every web page. Maybe you got something like that?
 
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Hmm I don't see anything.. but I never use that Windows everyone talks about.
 
Hmm I don't see anything.. but I never use that Windows everyone talks about.
Neither do I.Like I said, false alarm. It was an extension that was doing bad things and would affect anyone running Chrome, Chromium, or FireFox. I have no idea where I got it from but it is obviously intentionally misnamed to draw away suspicion.
 
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