Is anyone else seeing a vertical colum of moving/changing ads on the right side of the Avsim pages called HOT DEALS?  They cover about 1/4 width of the page on the right side.There is an arrow that you can click on and they move off to the right of the page, but then there is a left arrow that will bring them back in view. Each time you go to a different page in the forums, they appear again in full view. You have to click on the right arrow to get rid of them again. Very anoying. Or am I the only one seeing this? So far, I only see them on the Avsim site.

Never mind. I found a little box at the bottom of the colum with the gear sign and I clicked on it to reveal an OPt OUT box. It was then revealed to me that it was labled        " Enhanced Shopping Assistant". I must have picked it up in something I downloaded, but it was strange that it only appeared on the Avsim pages. It is gone now.

I don't see them and we have no title called Hot Deals.

 

Best regards,

You really have to be careful about installing software from the web, even from reputable sources.

Never click on the "typical" option,as some software has bundled  other applications inside the typical setup. if a notice about some unwanted software popups up, click "cancel" which should allow you proceed with the desired installation. Be aware there may be more than one unwanted program bundled. I've been caught out a few times and it takes a lot of work to remove some of this rubbish they add nowadays. 

get "ad bloc"  it's great, free and blocks all ads.  For you to see this and most of us don't....your pc is probably infected with a lot of malware/viruses.

Depending on your browser, I use three little utilities to keep ads at bay.

 

One is AdBlockPlus, the other is Greasemonkey,and the third is Ghostery. Greasemonkey stops all the Google-saturated ads, Ghostery blocks almost every ad

Had similar issues with ad-/mal-/bloatware polluting my AVSIM site (and some others). Freeware versions of Malwarebytes, Adwcleaner and Avast! removed them.

Yeh. Looks like it came with a supposeded update for Adobe Flash Player. I have now gotten rid of it. Strange that the only place I saw the ads was here on Avsim. Thanks for the advice.

Occasionally those updates will sneak something extra in on you.  I've had some adware junk appear before, but fortunately I use malawarebytes premium along with Microsoft Security Essentials to help nuke it.  A few months ago a popup started appearing at the worst time (I was in mid-flight) and crashing me out of the sim.  After a little sleuthing I gave it the boot for good.

 

 

update for Adobe Flash Player

That's why the latest Firefox blocks it by default and one has to allow permissions for any site with embedded Adobe Flash Player, the bane of the Internet.

 

Oliver

It's a pity I do not have at hand the security software article that reviewed anti-virus and malware tools, because MalwareBytes free version did not come out too well. But your Avast as the best of freeware anti-virus software on test.

As I said awhile back, for a FS computer the internet is the root of all evil. Every once in awhile on my laptop (not the FS computer) I find some sort of crap like that has found it's way in. I find Win 8.1 to be particularly vulnerable.

It would be really helpful when someone has a public report like this to make, to provide a screen shot with the initial post. That way, fellow users can confirm immediately whether they  are seeing the same, instead of speculating over the cause and folks scratching their heads over what their systems may have aboard to be concerned about.

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Oliver

It's a pity I do not have at hand the security software article that reviewed anti-virus and malware tools, because MalwareBytes free version did not come out too well. But your Avast as the best of freeware anti-virus software on test.

 

 

Thanks, Rick.

Avast! provides realtime protection even with the freeware version, Malwarebytes does not. So Avast! is my no. 1 24/7 protection right now, with MWB only doing the occasional extra scan.

probaby got an adware.

Wont help ad blocking it.

Oliver

 

Will PM re:a mutual friend of ours later

Unfortunately I have also started gettting these "pop up Ads" sometimes with music. It is not only AVSIM but several other places as well.  Some of these suckers are full page with music  It may have piggy backed on a software I didn't read close enough when installing. I use Mozilla Firefox and sometimes IE.  Tried virus scan, some of the free software for removal and checked program removal but no go. I was wondering if I do a windows restore a few days back that would fix it. Or maybe reinstalling Firefox and IE.

 

I do get these random "Ads" on both IE and MF. Because of this mess I may have little or no hairl left if and when I can reslove this.

 

Thanks for any hlep.