[Closed] Admin: Malicious Advert

Reported.

Not an issue. 😉

[quote=CountZero said]Not an issue.

Burn him!

😉

Its been happening for a while:

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/android-pop-ups-from-ads-on-this-site

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I get a lot Lovelinks pop up on my android tab and then opens play store. 🙄

Please email us privately so we can keep it quiet.

If that were the case we'd delete any reference to problems but yet we don't.

If that were the case we'd delete any reference to problems but yet we don't.

Admirable.

And a advert to the right for free malware removal. See how the world goes round.

I reported this to the mods earlier in the week. They are usually pretty quick at removing these ads.

allthepies - Member
CountZero said » Not an issue.
Burn him!

Bump

Getting fedup of it now. Constantly occurring on both android phone and tablet.

Any suggestions yet?

virus in your device(s)?

not an issue here.

Don't think so... can never be 100% though

I've been looking into this a bit more and have a few observations,
We only use the major ad networks Google, Microsoft, AOL and Switch. They are very conscious of ad malware and I would be surprised if they were distributing this code.
We have hundreds of thousands of Android users on the site and it is the same few who report recurring problems.
I use the site on my Android Nexus 7 and HTC One S regularly and have never encountered a problem.
All this leads me to believe the problem may be with the users devices. Google does not vet the quality of apps distributed via the Google Play store so the odds are that some of our users may have installed a dodgy app at some stage. Equally, Android devices are vulnerable to viruses and other malware. It is recommended that you should run anti virus package on your device.

Ultimately as I have been unable to replicate the problem I can't see how I can help further. If you have any further information that would help me identify the cause of the problem I would be happy to investigate further.

We are keeping the ad networks informed of the concerns in case they are the source..

It's on the device but only happens when browsing Singletrack?

Chinny reckon

I had the same thing happen last night on an android phone.

[i]It's on the device but only happens when browsing Singletrack?[/i]

I'm with patrick - if it weren't the device there would be an awful lot more people complaining about this across a range of platforms and devices.

And why only on Android devices - the ad serving systems that stw use are largely OS agnostic.

no idea if there's a malwarebytes equivalent for android and I've not needed it on my Sony but if I were affected I'd assume it wa sme and not stw.

My laptop keeps blocking a popup today; this is only occurring on STW.

have you run malwarebytes etc?

unless the code to launch the pop-up is delivered by stw or it's ad partners it's not really down to them is it?

Merely commenting that I am getting this on a windows system and only with STW. Seems likely to me that a popup that only appears on STW and not on the 100's of other sites I browse may be something to do with STW.

Patrick- do you make allowances for the difference between premier users reporting issues and the lowly proles?

Afternoon,
Flashed to downgrade back to 4.3 Jellybean.
Only re-installed a few apps after reading the latest reviews on Play store,
Still having the issue.
For what that's worth! 🙂

lowly proles?

I got a similar dodgy pop up while browsing on an Android phone, suggesting a virus had been detected and inviting me to clean it. No "Cancel" option, only an "OK", so clearly a scam. I just used the back button to cancel the window.
As reported by others, I have only experienced this on the STW site.

Been experiencing this for about last week, and only on STW. No apps downloaded recently. Running a Desire S with Gingerbread & Avast installed

I only let P lapse because I never rceived a free gift!

Patrick- do you make allowances for the difference between premier users reporting issues and the lowly proles?

Happened a couple of times to me during the last week on Android. Only on STW, not had it on any other site.

cp: do you have ads on or off?

Hi Patrick,
I didn't & I'm not too fussed, I was just having a dig at Stoner - I know you're good at sorting out missed free gifts and didn't mean to imply any fault on your part 🙂

patricksingletrack - Singletrack Webby
cp: do you have ads on or off?

I have them off.

I'll run AVG or something on the phone this afternoon, just to be sure.

Cheers cp, that suggests it may not be ad networks.

Surely if the adverts are tailored to your browsing habits (which everyone always says is the case) then you would expect only some users to be served the "dodgy" ones, no?

I'm getting the same messages. Android KitKat 4.4

I have both AVG and malwarebytes running on android. I get the popups fairly frequently on both phone and tablet.

Not all the ads are targeted. Some are targeted at demographics, some using geographical data, some using past browsing data. We are treating this seriously and are looking under the hood and examining everything we can think of. But the suggestion that it's happened to a user with ads turned off is causing some head scratching here.
If anyone has any more technical details they can pass on to us, browser data, version etc then all of that will help us. The more details the better for us. And if you can post it directly to us at tech@singletrackworld.com that will be really helpful.

This is not happening on my kindle fire or htc one. You guys sure you haven't installed a file by accident that's searching itself to your most used sites?

You do know what the solution is don't you?....

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Or as a test turn off your wi fi, then load up singletrack from cached memory and see if it still pops up

[quote=Mark ]Not all the ads are targeted. Some are targeted at demographics, some using geographical data, some using past browsing data. We are treating this seriously and are looking under the hood and examining everything we can think of. But the suggestion that it's happened to a user with ads turned off is causing some head scratching here.
FWIW, I've only had it once and I'm pretty sure that was before I'd logged on to STW.

I've just browsed the site using silk chrome and explorer, no issues some of you guys need to clean your devices up!

Which browser are you all using?

Seems bloody weird to me that it's [i]only [/i]STW and [i]only [/i]certain people affected. I might give it a battering during lunch.