Odd DDRFreak occurance

Desoulman · Trick Member Joined: 25 Apr 2002 Location: Vermont :(

I notice that somtimes, when I am browsing the DDRFreak message boards, a page will begin to load up, but in less then a second, a new page lodas intead of the regular page. The page that pops up in its place is some smileys4ever.com or something stupid like that, and has a bunch of smileys on it advertising their huge number of smileys. I use mozilla 5.0, and have all pop-ups disabled.

If it happens again, I will come back and list the URL it brings me to. (this has happened to me over half a doze times)

EDIT: I just got it again. I end up at the URL
http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZNxdm414

Also, if I hit back, it will go to the page I clicked the link on, not the page I wanted to go to.
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J Dogg · Administrator Joined: 16 Jan 2002 Location: Sunnyvale, CA

Maybe you have some kind of spyware on your computer?
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Desoulman · Trick Member Joined: 25 Apr 2002 Location: Vermont :(

Perhaps. I explored their website a bit, and they had an uninstall file, which I ran, and hopefully that will be the end of it.
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VxJasonxV · Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2005 3:39 pm Post subject:

You may also want to run Spybot S&D ( safer-networking.org ).
and Ad-Aware ( lavasoftusa.com ).
Just to be safe.

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Crap, it just happened to me >_<.
And I'm on Firefox!!
DeSoulMan, could you provide details about that uninstaller and such? I'm going to go track down the banner and page it occured on.

P.S. It was a thread in Console Games. I open all unread threads though, so I have no idea which one it was

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Every once in a while I get a net reset error.
The page is http://jgen1.cjt1.net
It's not loading, but I'm curious if it's the source of the problem.
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Edible Bondage Tape · Trick Member Joined: 26 Jan 2002 Location: Kerri

i too get this add on (and only on) ddrfreak and i keep my system up to date with spywareblaster spybot and adaware

and last time i had the popup i ran both spybot and adaware (checked up updates first) and came away clean
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Desoulman · Trick Member Joined: 25 Apr 2002 Location: Vermont :(

The thread I get it on is seemingly random. I got it once in just one of the forums, and not in a particulary thread. The installer I found was on the website that pops up.
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Legendary Luke · Trick Member Joined: 07 Oct 2004

I have firefox, I have got 0 popups or anything like that. I suggest you get it.
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Edible Bondage Tape · Trick Member Joined: 26 Jan 2002 Location: Kerri

J Dogg · Administrator Joined: 16 Jan 2002 Location: Sunnyvale, CA

Is it associated with any ad on the top?
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VxJasonxV · Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2005 1:03 am Post subject:

We can't tell, because it physically changes your page entirely.
It's not a pop-up. It's like it sends a Location: header that somehow breaks out of it's iframe... I'm not entirely sure though, because I can't be.

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It hasn't occured tonight at home. The first occurance to me was at work.
Haven't seen it since.
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Edible Bondage Tape · Trick Member Joined: 26 Jan 2002 Location: Kerri

ive seen it twice so i cant yet guage how often it shows up for me but i do a LOT of forum crawling here so ill seei tagian sooner or later
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IguanaGrrl · Staff Member Joined: 17 Jan 2002 Location: Sacramento, CA

I've had it happen to me once, but it was before this was regarded as a possible banner issue. I'll see if I can figure it out if I get it again.
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Desoulman · Trick Member Joined: 25 Apr 2002 Location: Vermont :(

MPB3.Radio · Trick Member Joined: 05 Dec 2002 Location: P-Town

Reenee · Trick Member Joined: 21 Nov 2003

Hey guys, I've had it happen to me too, but I'm on a Mac.

And you know how much spyware THAT has.

evn · Staff Member Joined: 23 Jan 2002 Location: Calgary AB

^ If it happens again and you're using Safari, bring up the Activity Window (Window -> Activity or CMD+Option+A).

Look under the DDR Freak :: ***** list, you should see a sub list of items like that starts with "www.ddrfreak.com/lib/". Inside of that is all the information loaded by the ad's iFrame - if you can get the URI from that then we'd know exactly what ad it was.
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Mitternacht · Trick Member Joined: 25 Feb 2002

... I know this thread is few days old, but now I'm getting it alot, and it's becomeing VERY annoying....

Anyone figured it out, yet?

Edit: I don't think it matters what banner is on the page... It keeps doing it....

Whomever thought this was a good advertiseing idea had to have been smokeing something......
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Edible Bondage Tape · Trick Member Joined: 26 Jan 2002 Location: Kerri

http://a.as-us.falkag.net/dat/dlv/aslframe.html?dat=6098&xl=468&yl=60&wrd=[KeyWord]&prf=

that was waht was in the banner location when i go the banner (for the 3rd time)
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It happened to me a couple of times when I used firefox as well, but I use Opera now and it hasn't happened yet.

Reenee · Trick Member Joined: 21 Nov 2003