Adware on Neowin


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Not sure if anyone else has seen this. Twice in the last few minutes i have gotten a popup to install someone from an ad on neowin. :angry:

I understand this happens sometimes and that neowin admin will remove the ad. I closed them so i don't have alot of infomation. one was a yellow ad for weight loss. If I get more info i'll add to this post.

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I got it too, just after reading these posts, I have a screenshot (1280x1024) showing the neowin page I was on with the "weight loss" banner at the top, the popup asking me to install a plugin, and my IE list of open sites.

Here is a link to the screenshot - Neowin popup screenshot

Here is the URL you get if you right click > copy shortcut on the "weight loss" banner - http://www.securenetsafe.com/index.php3?id=2193&pr=21&ba=31

Phillip

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[Moved Here]

Other have reported it happening to them, but most members seem to be fine. See here:

https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=149391

https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=149388

We're yet to figure out the cause. As with you, they all report to be Spyware / Adware free.

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... my home page gets changed whenever i goto neowin.net to http://209.50.251.182/newspynotice.html n

Mod Edit: Don't click the link... a trojan will try to infect. Only reason I'm leaving it here is so the admins can see what the homepage is changing too.

Trojan Name: VBS/Psyme

- shockz

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today i empty out my cookies,temporally inteernet files, ran spybot, ran adaware, ran norton, clear prefetch folder. Spybot and adaware didnt find anything. Until when i log on to the internet and went to neowin.net/forum i suddenly get these pop-ups everytime i open a IE. I disable pop-up blocker when i saw a window trying to open. Then click IE and my about:home homepage got changed to sumtim and all these pop-up occurs. Then there was this one pop-up that hid my taskbar and took up the whole screen saying your internet service provider sumtin sumtin spyware on you comp. It was a yellowish background color. So i change my homepage and ran spybot and adaware.

The homepage was set to Dont click the link

http://default-homepage-network.com/start.cgi?hkcu. Any help????????

Dont click the Link

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ahh **** i htough spybot and adaware got rid of it will the homepage was reset to the damn link i posted up. this time i manage to get some pictures. ill prolly run adaware again and spybot again and not return to neowin for an hour, just to see if neowin is cuaseing this...sign.........................

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i got that pop up install thing a few times too

i was worried if it was only me.

i've run spybot 1.3b6 a couple times, and just seems to find the regular stuff that manages to find it's way to my computer every so often.

but for the past couple days i've had this problem (after removing spyware)

"do it rockapella!"

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