Does your browser get hijacked while browsing DigitalPoint forums?

A toast is what the msn messenger windows you see coming up when someone comes online are.

Allthough I find it very strange that after reading this thread yesterday I came across exactly what you were talking about. I was looking for something on google and instead of getting the page i was expecting I got the same page you did. Annoyingly I had avast turned of at that point because the on access protection was slowing down my browser and I'd turned it off for gaming. Those are normally the only times i turn it off.

It look more like a webpage that looked like the windows explorer menu to me obviously meant to be deceitful imo, i'll download ad-aware and run a scan later today just incase. I suggest you do the same

 

Thanks for the advice, but I did not download any adware. I have disabled this in my browser. See this post for better info on what happened to me. Banner Ads Hijack.

The internet itself becomes more annoying each day. Pretty soon I hope to see safety hubs that only the elite-spamfree-noncommercial shall be allowed to surf!

 

ad-aware is a malware/adware scanning program, me finks you got a bit confused as to the meaning of ad-aware

 

Yep. Perhaps confused on adware, but, I more than fink the ads were attempting to hijack through browser by installing junk on pc, I'm certain of it! Adware, malware, whatever - it's garbage none of us want.

So.. I've put the info I gathered into that blog to share.

My point is that attempts were made to install the software (?) to my PC, but my PC/Browser settings did not allow it, thankfully.

At any rate, I've given all I can on this subject, hopefully it will help some people.

 

You may want to download this: http://www.lavasoft.com/ it may help clear the junk from your pc.

Another tip is you could try a system restore if its messed anything up, allthough you may need to re-install any programs since the date you decide to restore your pc to.

 

You might have installed software with adware, sitepoint doesn't use pop-ups

 

but aren't we talking about digitalpoint here?

 

Yes sorry, my fault.

Double fault because sitepoint has pop-ups

 

its a virus which tries to confuse you to order something from them - another virus.

Best option is to reinstall your system and protect it with firewall/antivirus programs

 

this happens to me, only on DP.
I have to "stop" loading the page before it will stop.

 

Doesn't happen to me anymore...

What confuses me is that, DP ads are to show only adsense, but sometimes, the banner on the top-right, shows ClickSor ads...which may contain this adware, anyone know why clicksor ads are shown?