Porno Pop-ups

[gizmopup]

CAN ANYONE PLEASE HELP ME?
I am the deputy administrator on the Dalek World Forum and have recently been plagued with pop-up ads for porno sites, which I cannot back up out of (I have to leave the site and return to it ). The forum owner does not experience this and is at a loss what to do.
But now, another forum member has made a complaint to me, informing me that the same thing is happening to him, only whilst on the Proboards forum, so I now need to stop this happening.
So, I would be grateful if anyone could tell me how to sort this out?
Thank you very much.

[Former Member]

I would do a check to see if you have malware on your PC www.malwarebytes.com/antimalware/
is free program to check for malware

Also check that haven't got any addons extensions added that you are not aware of on your browser

is it on any particular page you get the pop up? 

Have you added anything new on your forum

it may be a rouge ad  you can always use the Link to report it ads.proboards.com/ad_debugger.html

[Craig]

Added to what steve posted. Run a check for malware, but also clear the cache and cookies in your browser. If you continue to get the popup, could you provide a link to the forum

[Rosefriend]

Aug 10, 2016 5:06:22 GMT -8 Craig said:

Added to what steve posted. Run a check for malware, but also clear the cache and cookies in your browser. If you continue to get the popup, could you provide a link to the forum :)

Hi Craig - just to add to this, I have had this happened 3 times, twice yesterday and once just a few minutes ago and I was in my messages....

I checked everything through yesterday but found nothing - see if I can find anything now..

gardenworld.proboards.com

Do you require a new thread?

[Craig]

Aug 10, 2016 5:18:12 GMT -8 Rosefriend said:

Aug 10, 2016 5:06:22 GMT -8 Craig said:

Added to what steve posted. Run a check for malware, but also clear the cache and cookies in your browser. If you continue to get the popup, could you provide a link to the forum

Hi Craig - just to add to this, I have had this happened 3 times, twice yesterday and once just a few minutes ago and I was in my messages....

I checked everything through yesterday but found nothing - see if I can find anything now..

gardenworld.proboards.com

Do you require a new thread?

No, that's fine

If you could report the ad that loaded prior [ on the page ] to the popup, that can be checked and removed.  You may also want to run a malware scan like steve mentioned above, just to check

ads.proboards.com/ad-report.html

[Rosefriend]

Aug 10, 2016 5:25:52 GMT -8 Craig said:

Aug 10, 2016 5:18:12 GMT -8 Rosefriend said:

Hi Craig - just to add to this, I have had this happened 3 times, twice yesterday and once just a few minutes ago and I was in my messages....

I checked everything through yesterday but found nothing - see if I can find anything now..

gardenworld.proboards.com

Do you require a new thread?

No, that's fine :)

If you could report the ad that loaded prior [ on the page ] to the popup, that can be checked and removed.  You may also want to run a malware scan like steve mentioned above, just to check :)

ads.proboards.com/ad-report.html

I haven't a clue which add was running as I was scrolling down a message and hit reply and it was there...hardcore porn - you can't get out - I had to close the window..

I am trying to get it to happen again and if so will report it...just about to run Malware...I don't have anything in my add-ons etc...

[gizmopup]

dalekplanet.freeforums.net/
Thanks to all who have replied.
craig - that's a link to our forum above, but we never know when they're going to pop up, very random.
@xsteveuk - I've got some of the offending web addresses from my colleague's history. Should I report them to that link you gave me?
all, we both did the usual malware tests, etc. and came back spotless.

[Former Member]

Aug 10, 2016 5:36:48 GMT -8 gizmopup said:

dalekplanet.freeforums.net/
Thanks to all who have replied.
craig - that's a link to our forum above, but we never know when they're going to pop up, very random.
@xsteveuk - I've got some of the offending web addresses from my colleague's history. Should I report them to that link you gave me?
all , we both did the usual malware tests, etc. and came back spotless.

If browsing your forum and you get the popup again use the ads.proboards.com/ad-report.html tool to report it

You could  try sending a report with the links - that may help too

Steve

[Craig]

Aug 10, 2016 5:33:33 GMT -8 Rosefriend said:

Aug 10, 2016 5:25:52 GMT -8 Craig said:

No, that's fine

If you could report the ad that loaded prior [ on the page ] to the popup, that can be checked and removed.  You may also want to run a malware scan like steve mentioned above, just to check

ads.proboards.com/ad-report.html

I haven't a clue which add was running as I was scrolling down a message and hit reply and it was there...hardcore porn - you can't get out - I had to close the window..

I am trying to get it to happen again and if so will report it...just about to run Malware...I don't have anything in my add-ons etc...

If it happens again, and you close out of the window, go immediately to ads.proboards.com/ad-report.html upon opening a new window, and report the most recent ad.

Also, clear the cache and cookies in your browser now, as it may be something stored in there triggering it.

[Rosefriend]

Aug 10, 2016 6:26:19 GMT -8 Craig said:

Aug 10, 2016 5:33:33 GMT -8 Rosefriend said:

I haven't a clue which add was running as I was scrolling down a message and hit reply and it was there...hardcore porn - you can't get out - I had to close the window..

I am trying to get it to happen again and if so will report it...just about to run Malware...I don't have anything in my add-ons etc...

If it happens again, and you close out of the window, go immediately to ads.proboards.com/ad-report.html upon opening a new window, and report the most recent ad.

Also, clear the cache and cookies in your browser now, as it may be something stored in there triggering it.

Ok Craig - many thanks, will do!!

[gizmopup]

Steve, Craig, Rose, thanks for all your comments, will do and have instructed my co-sufferer to do likewise!

[Craig]

Thanks

If there is a stray ad causing this, then we definitely want it to be removed, so the report would be more than helpful.

[Scott]

Yes please report using the ad report tool Craig referenced, so we can investigate all reports to remove the stray ad(s).

[gizmopup]

Will do, Scott! It's a case of catching them in the act now!
But, I can manually type you out 3 of the offending urls, if you could act on those?

[Michael]

Aug 10, 2016 8:56:13 GMT -8 gizmopup said:

Will do, Scott! It's a case of catching them in the act now!
But, I can manually type you out 3 of the offending urls, if you could act on those?

No, please use the ad report tool. If the popups/redirects are coming from our ads and not something on your computer then the destination location of where you end up is quite literally impossible to use to track down the advert that it is coming from.