Pop ups?

[M-J]

Started getting pop ups when using the forum, never had them before and haven’t changed anything.

Use safari on iPhone.

Jim ?

 

[phase3begins]

Ditto

 

[Mickey1]

Same

 

[Wombles]

Me too - using laptop & Chrome.

 

[LesW]

Same here, I have adblock, but it wasn't activated for the forum.. it is now and seems ok.

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[Wombles]

Jim in case you haven't spotted this thread (I thought it was about pop up shelters at first!) has anything changed that may have caused this & is there something we need to stop these please?

 

[tonka]

Same here..

 

[dryad]

yes, has been happening to me too on ipad, quite a few times today, bit of a pain but if backspace or swipe page away and then come back to the thread find it's gone..
most ads seem to be for bras by the way, weird..

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[Diabalo]

Well bugger me, I have just been all over me puter to see why I am getting popups only to find out it's only on fun.

 

[David and Sally]

Me too

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[Quackers]

Yep and me really annoying.

 

[Peter & Elaine]

And me

 

[Jim]

What is a pop up?

 

[Diabalo]

Popup advert

 

[M-J]

What is a pop up?

Adverts popping up in a small window for me.

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[Jim]

Can you screeenshot one

 

[Jim]

What are they advertising?

 

[M-J]

Windscreens for me this time...

Jim

 

[Jim]

They are not being generated here. Pop ups like that are almost always browser infections. I would suggest immeditaly running Malwarebytes.

Got Unwanted Browser Pop-Ups? How To Spot And Delete Malware

Unwanted browser ads and pop-ups can be extremely annoying and even dangerous. These intrusive ads often bombard users with flashing graphics, auto-playing

malwaretips.com

 

[OnlyJen]

And I thought this was another roof thread

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[David and Sally]

Must becoming via MHF surely Jim as a lot of us are getting them.?

 

[Jim]

Must becoming via MHF surely Jim as a lot of us are getting them.?

Absolutley not coming from here. They are designed to look like they are on sites you spend time on, but if you are infected they will appear on different sites you visit. This will remove them.

Got Unwanted Browser Pop-Ups? How To Spot And Delete Malware

Unwanted browser ads and pop-ups can be extremely annoying and even dangerous. These intrusive ads often bombard users with flashing graphics, auto-playing

malwaretips.com

 

[David and Sally]

Does that work on an iPad?

 

[OnlyJen]

Jim this is a google generated pop-up I believe. Does the forum had an "Adsense" setting? Happened in my other forum.

Edit: Apologies, I see you have already answered.

 

[Jim]

Jim this is a google generated pop-up I believe. Does the forum had an "Adsense" setting? Happened in my other forum.

Edit: Apologies, I see you have already answered.

No thanks, that is a possibility, I will check and see what ads have been served.

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[M-J]

Only happening on MHFun, no other sites afftected.

Would be a massive coincidence that it’s happening to lots of people on here and nowhere else for us all to have the same browser infection.

 

[Gromett]

Is everyone who is getting this on mobile? Anyone on a laptop or desktop computer running MacOS or Windows 10 getting them?

If you are getting them can you tell me the following please.
OS (windows/MacOS/IOS/Android etc)
Browser (firefox, Chromer etc)

Page that you saw it on?

Are you running an adblocker?

 

[tonka]

I have only seen them earlier today and on Chrome via my android phone.
Not seen them on my PC.
Since I posted earlier, been checking phone and not seen any since.
This morning, click a link and a pop up advert appeared that filled the whole screen. Had to hit the "X" to remove and see the post.

 

[Jim]

Only happening on MHFun, no other sites afftected.

Would be a massive coincidence that it’s happening to lots of people on here and nowhere else for us all to have the same browser infection.

Wouldn't be a coincidence at all. Its happened a few times. If a bunch of you followed one link, or loaded the same malicious advert on a page somewhere then you could have infected browsers. That does not mean we are serving the malware.

The adsense lead is interesting though, because sometimes Google lets a dodgy ad through their system, I am going through those that have been served

 

[Quackers]

PC Gromett W10 Edge Version 89.0.774.45 (Official build) (64-bit)
I think I got it from clicking on Whats New tab, again it looked like a google localised advert.

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