I'm guessing they were hacked, looking at the cached page on Google:

I'm guessing they were hacked, looking at the cached page on Google:

 

Yup, that sure looks like a hack job to me...

******* Christ, talk about not having a sense of humor. Do you guys really take these things that serious? Did that silly joke really ruin your Sunday? AVSIM by far has the most sensitive members I have ever run in to since my Compuserve days. Just wow.

Hello,

 

I do have a sense of humour, but you really have to know a person very well to make that joke, and you certainly do not know me that well. This comment is not about being sensitive. Too often people do not observe etiquette when making joke and your joke was not general in nature. If you reread your joke again you would have noticed that it was personal and gratuituous. And to answer your question, yes, it upset me that instead just apologize for your mistake, you chose to be condescending.

You really should have described why you thought they were hacked in better detail. My first thought was exactly what Efrain said in his first reply. You would be surprised how many people complain of ad's at web sites/forums, only to have it explained that those ad's are based on browsing history.

Hello,

 

I do have a sense of humour, but you really have to know a person very well to make that joke, and you certainly do not know me that well. This comment is not about being sensitive. Too often people do not observe etiquette when making joke and your joke was not general in nature. If you reread your joke again you would have noticed that it was personal and gratuituous. And to answer your question, yes, it upset me that instead just apologize for your mistake, you chose to be condescending.

 

Now that I re-read the joke, I see why your feathers are being ruffled. It was my use of the word YOUR. I meant it as in general but I do see where you think I was directing as in YOUR habits. I certainly don't know what your habits and activities are and quite honestly, I couldn't care less, but I see your point. Should've word it differently so that it wasn't directly implicating you. Lesson learned I guess, but expect no apologies from me because I wasn't trying to offend you. Happy Sunday! ^_^

 

PS. I initially thought you were referring to those regular ads which are INDEED based on ONE'S browsing habits, but after seeing the pics posted, it obviously was a hack job.

 

You really should have described why you thought they were hacked in better detail. My first thought was exactly what Efrain said in his first reply. You would be surprised how many people complain of ad's at web sites/forums, only to have it explained that those ad's are based on browsing history.

 

You beat me to it... lol

I hope you have a really good anti virus system. You may have to try several different types. Symantec and McAfee have free programs to check your computer. Malwarebytes Anti-Malware is good as well. Good idea to run all 3.

Thats actually the worst thing he or anybody can ever do. Symantec/McAfee are the worst on the planet and Malwarebytes is a pointless app because there is 1 app that does more than all 3 of those put together, and does it exceptionally well... Also, running 3 apps all at once can cause conflicts..

 

Check out Avast.com

 

They have a free version too... Whatever you do, avoid the Symantecs/McAfee's at all costs, I have a constant stream of heavily infected computers all with those apps on, they are not worth the packaging the software comes in, same goes for AVG too, useless at what it does, and excellent at stopping lots of other things working properly.

 

Avast has a sandbox mode for anything thats trying to install, picks up malware too, and pre-loads pages, so if a page has been hacked, it simply aborts your conection and gives you a white page explaining whats happened and why, preventing you even getting the content anywhere on your screen or computer.

 

Cant speak highly enough of it..

 

Mine cost me, for 3 PC's, for 3 years, £90... Thats 1/3rd the retail cost of the others.... 6 years I have been a customer of Avast, and will never trust anything else..

Heck I use Avast to clean up customers computers :-) Put them onto Avast and they never ever have the same problem again.. Although they do tell me they recommended Avast to their friends..

 

Just thought that was worth mentioning.

To RCITGuy. My point was not to run all 3 programs at once or have them running constantly on onces computer but if a person did not have an anti viral program they can go onto the Symantec or McAfee site and have a free assessment of their computer done without downloading the actual program and then try something like Malware bytes. There are other programs as well which I didn't mention. These were just a representation. This was only a suggestion and not necessarily the worse thing a person can do because the programs are not resident on ones computer.

This was only a suggestion and not necessarily the worse thing a person can do because the programs are not resident on ones computer.

Fair enough mate... But because those online scanners are not resident on the computer, they can only do very little.

The free version of Avast will do far more than any of those online scanners.. It will let you do a boot time scan, so it loads and checks your drives outside of Windows, before Windows even loads, thus detecting anything that hides itself as a running windows process too :-)

 

Very few others, if not no other A/V's do that..