Anyone else suffering from excessive adverts on CC

[terrierjohn]

Has anyone else noticed a sudden increase in messy adverts popping up all over the place and new pages opening on CC, or is it just my PC thats acting up???

[KaththeTaff]

I haven't noticed anything different. DH suggests you adjust your ad blocker (it doesn't mean much to me, but that's what he said!)

[richleeds]

No change here either.

[Presto2]

No problem here either.

[dorsetlad]

I don't see any adverts as I have Adblock installed.

 

Brian

[terrierjohn]

I don't see any adverts as I have Adblock installed.

 

Brian

Thanks for the tip Brian, that has improved things. However I must have some sort of virus on the laptop since I am still getting frustrating new tabs opening via "sizlsearch" when I open up threads, but my Norton AV does not seem able to find and get rid of it.

[dorsetlad]

Terrierjohn, go here:- http://malwaretips.com/blogs/sizlsearch-virus-removal/

It will tell you how to remove it. I just did a google search on sizlsearch, and it found loads of info on removing it depending on your operating system.

 

Brian

[richleeds]

Thanks for the tip Brian, that has improved things. However I must have some sort of virus on the laptop since I am still getting frustrating new tabs opening via "sizlsearch" when I open up threads, but my Norton AV does not seem able to find and get rid of it.

 

 

You've probably been looking at some dodgy sites.

 

 

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[dorsetlad]

The installation of Malwarebytes would also probably keep your system safe from such downloads.

 

Brian

[terrierjohn]

Thanks again Brian malwarebytes found several files with embedded sizlsearch "pups" in them, however Norton's root checker found nothing, I am beginning to wonder why I continue to pay them?

Anyway I am now an advert free zone, which begs the question why would advertisers want to use such invasive style adverts when I was quite happy to put up with the fairly benign ones, and in fact they could sometimes be useful in finding special offers.

[dorsetlad]

Glad you got sorted John. Never liked Norton myself, I use Bitdefender which is free and very effective. If you research it, it gets very good performance reviews. Safe computing to all.

 

Brian

[terrierjohn]

Further update, my laptop is now running about like a spring chicken, response times excellent, no keyboard lag and Firefox no longer freezing regularly, as yet. :)

This I assume is down to Flashplayer no longer being so heavily used to run the adverts, in the past when things got bad I regularly needed to stop flashplayer in order to breathe life back into the laptop, why I did not use adblock before I will never know.;)