new ad scam?


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I saw this popping up on random sites and now on neowin, is this a new type of ad scam? It's an interesting concept b/c it would be hard to disable as ppl need this for restricted sites:

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I've got it a couple of times. Zone Alarm asks if "joeblowprogram.exe" can access the net and then i see that box. Run AdAware

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i run ad-aware pro on a regular basis and it's not me, it's gotta be the site. look at the picture below, that ad right there seems to fail to load in any browser at random times, sometimes it shows the correct ad, but i DOUBT this is a problem with my PC.

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1). Adware/Spyware

2). Virus

3). "Netsend" ad scam (unlikely)

I haven't seen this before. It happens with both Moz and IE?

^ Edit: I think ZA prevents some ads from loading, so that's why you're getting the "Page cannot be Displayed" ads.

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1). Adware/Spyware

2). Virus

3). "Netsend" ad scam (unlikely)

I haven't seen this before. It happens with both Moz and IE?

^ Edit: I think ZA prevents some ads from loading, so that's why you're getting the "Page cannot be Displayed" ads.

1. just updated/ran ad-aware pro 6 now, nothing

2. doubt it, I have Symantec Corporate Antivirus 8 with all the updates

3. definitely not, have that disabled

4. nope, don't have zone alarm, and i usually see the ad load, it's just like one ad there that does this

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*shrug*

Don't need ZA to block these things. IE doesn't like displaying ads on this computer for some reason... But...

You could try flushing your cache/cookies. But that first dialog definitely isn't something Moz would put up.

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i dont get that too..adaware is also my solution and i also don't get the ad at the left side of neowin's main..it always shows a error page...

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