Tank_Guy#3
Lion of Lehistan
Probably a stupid question, but are we not allowed to use Adblock on CFC?
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Invasive new ads
- Thread starter cephalo
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Probably a stupid question, but are we not allowed to use Adblock on CFC?
CCRunner
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You are, but some of us don't like to because it stops TF from getting ad revenue from our site usage.
LucyDuke
staring at the clock
You can use whatever you want whereever you want. Tubes is magic. I feel bad because of what CCRunner said, but I just can't have some of this stuff.
ParadigmShifter
Random Nonsense Generator
Seems better now not seen a broken ad for a while.
GenghisK
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Anyway I find those ads much less annoying than having to bear stupid posters spamming the funny pic thread with sh*ts every 2 or 3 replies. A glance at that thread and you'll understand 
Gary Childress
Student for and of life
Well I apologize to the community but I've had so many problems with malicious, invasive ads on CFC that I just installed Firefox with Adblock. Hopefully it will do the trick. I will not support a website which houses malicious ads. Sorry.
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Do whatever you feel you need to protect your computer and yourself. No need to apologize or feel bad about it at all.
I will continue to talk to Telefragged and let you guys know when UGO have addressed the issue.
I will continue to talk to Telefragged and let you guys know when UGO have addressed the issue.
As I've mentioned before, if you install any modern browser and keep it up to date, the ads cannot do anything malicious.
Maimonides
Emperor
I've also been getting "infinitely loading" ads the last 3 days. One time, I had to reboot because it locked IE up so badly. The most recent time, a few hours ago, I was redirected to a site promising free iPhones (not in a new window-a complete redirect away from CFC). During that instance, Norton recognized & blocked 2 malicious programs.
It's getting hard to visit CFC.
It's getting hard to visit CFC.
Gary Childress
Student for and of life
I've also been getting "infinitely loading" ads the last 3 days. One time, I had to reboot because it locked IE up so badly. The most recent time, a few hours ago, I was redirected to a site promising free iPhones (not in a new window-a complete redirect away from CFC). During that instance, Norton recognized & blocked 2 malicious programs.
It's getting hard to visit CFC.
Maimonides, try installing Mozilla Firefox web browser and install "Adblock" on it. It should make a world of difference. I just did so and have not had any more problems with ads or malware so far. Knock on wood, it seems to have solved the problems I was having.
cephalo
Deity
Yeah, this situation is getting worse for IE. I'm starting to get full blown viruses from here. There seems to be a new version of the one that brings up that scareware fake 'virus protection' software no matter what you do with your browser. McAfee(at home) and AVG(at work) aren't detecting the bad files. There's one in particular called 'iehelper.dll' that's a known malware component that isn't being caught in scans.
I'm going to have to stop using IE altogether.
I'm going to have to stop using IE altogether.
Maimonides
Emperor
For the record, it hasn't happened since my last post in this thread. Hopefully, that's the end of it.
What version of IE are you running?
cephalo
Deity
I'm using IE 7.
Update to IE 8.
