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[Dryden]

Then Mili's videos should have included Allison Stokke, Trey McNeil and edfinancial.

[OCBucksFan]

Gotten attempts at pop ups twice today, just giving you the heads up.

[Steve19]

Guys, I keep seeing advertisements on BP for General Motors South Africa. Are you seeing these? Is it possible that the thread on the car companies brings BP advertising revenue? If so, what does that say about the threads we should start?

[IronBuckI]

Not sure if this is ad related, but it's happened twice over the past couple of days, and only when I'm on BP.

I open up a thread and ie attempts to open up adobe reader. I get Remote access attempt warning on ie, and a pop-up bubble from ESET Smart Security.

ie warning.

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[Deety]

Originally Posted by Steve19

Guys, I keep seeing advertisements on BP for General Motors South Africa. Are you seeing these? Is it possible that the thread on the car companies brings BP advertising revenue? If so, what does that say about the threads we should start?

Some of the networks - Google, at least - can use keywords to match content, sometimes with humorous results. In other cases, they would be targeting by location, so that may also just be what's running for your area. We'll be doing the same with in-house ads, so you probably won't see anything we run for Columbus businesses unless you want me to add South Africa for that hometown flavor.

Originally Posted by IronBuckI

Not sure if this is ad related, but it's happened twice over the past couple of days, and only when I'm on BP.

I open up a thread and ie attempts to open up adobe reader. I get Remote access attempt warning on ie, and a pop-up bubble from ESET Smart Security.

ie warning.

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Security Log

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Checked the log info against what I could here and nothing appears amiss. With the ad network security and the iframes to corral the ads, it's most likely a coincidence that it's happening while on BP, but let's see if anyone else has seen anything similar.

Also, was it in the same or different threads? If it happens again, anything you see in the status bar, and a page source if you can grab one, would help with further checking.

[MililaniBuckeye]

OK, vent time. I fully know that BP needs ads to keep up and running, but Jiminy [censored]ing Cricket, does every mother [censored]ing ad have to be a God-damned animation or Flash Video? [censored]. [censored]. [censored]. I'm on cable modem (speed is no real issue), but unfortunately am stupid enough to use IE 7 and the browser just locks until all ads are loaded...can't scroll, links won't work, nothing until everything is loaded. I even just had a Lysol ad video take up so much bandwidth loading that Windows Media Player locked up while playing an MP3 until the ad finished loading. These mother [censored]ers had better be paying C-Dog plenty for this [censored]...

[Gatorubet]

I'm just excited that Hot Russian chicks want to meet me...

[Deety]

Bump for testing.

If you see an ad in the top banner other than Spring Drive, please post about it. If you have any popups (shouldn't be the case), post that, too. Thanks.

[Deety]

Bump again. We're testing another network, so now just reports of popups or excessive animation are needed.