-- POPUPS -- please read

[MarkG]

Ras, this site provides a "package". You can deny it or accept it. You making your own kind of "deals" does not change the fact of your abuse of the service.

Btw, CJ cookies(actually, all cookies) are NOT spyware

[MarkG]

Originally posted by Exile
There were 2 new malware progs/files there.

did you get a popup when you visited the site? what other ads did you see? what programs/files did you find?

please be precise when accusing our site of infecting your computer with anything. thank you.

[Frozzy]

Originally posted by MarkG
Ras, this site provides a "package". You can deny it or accept it. You making your own kind of "deals" does not change the fact of your abuse of the service.

Btw, CJ cookies(actually, all cookies) are NOT spyware

Technically, Markos is correct here...

[MarkG]

We're introducing banners from a new provider. Popups should remain "silent". If you get a popup please note here the page, the content/url of the popup and the content/url of any other ad you saw on the page that spawned it

Please be sure that you were only browsing Apolyton at the time that you got a popup and that you're spyware(which when installed on your computer can spawn popups while you're browsing any site) free, using Adaware and/or Spybot.

thank you!

[Tuberski]

Originally posted by MarkG
did you get a popup when you visited the site? what other ads did you see? what programs/files did you find?

please be precise when accusing our site of infecting your computer with anything. thank you.

He's been accusing you for 2 days, we got your back.



ACK!

[Asmodean]

for this Mark. Nice initiative.

Any ideas what/who caused the pop-up/Gator hell??

Was it one of your ad-providers? A third party provider that had "hitched a free ride"? or something else entirely??

Asmodean

[Rasbelin]

Originally posted by MarkG
Ras, this site provides a "package". You can deny it or accept it. You making your own kind of "deals" does not change the fact of your abuse of the service.

List me then among all those who get banned quite frequently for actually abusing your service. I'm sure that I'm such a criminal person like them, so I must belong there. Yeah, right.

Btw, CJ cookies(actually, all cookies) are NOT spyware

Ad-aware and Spybot S&D have both listed the Comission Junction cookie as a malicious tracker cookie, which you get from this site too when clicking the word "vBulletin" at the bottom of the page, so that any referal earnings from Jelsoft could be directed to you via Comission Junction.

[MarkG]

I'm sure that I'm such a criminal person like them

at least they are only making the site less friendly to everyone else. you're making it less likely to exist....

Ad-aware and Spybot S&D have both listed the Comission Junction cookie as a malicious tracker cookie

please let me know how exactly it's malicious and how it damages your computer

[MarkG]

Originally posted by Asmodean
for this Mark. Nice initiative.

Any ideas what/who caused the pop-up/Gator hell??

i havent goten into the process of enabling one by one our older providers.

ad networks dont care that much about accepting gator-like ads in their business and will most of the time not give you an option to not show them yourself. so we'll have to drop them entirely

we're currently testing a new provider and will see about testing popups next week

[DrSpike]

Nice developments.

[Case]

...and there was me fearing that those ads were legit and had originally been aproved by 'poly management

I'm glad to see that they weren't - gambling and Britney Spears sit awkwardly with the high-brow content on the rest of the site

[Asmodean]

Originally posted by MarkG
ad networks dont care that much about accepting gator-like ads in their business and will most of the time not give you an option to not show them yourself. so we'll have to drop them entirely

Which truly sucks

But still, thumbs up to the Apolyton team for taking action on this

Asmodean

[Ben Kenobi]

I don't know if this helps or not, but when I go on apolyton here is what I see in my cookies folder.

I cleaned up all my cookies.

Logging onto Apolyton, I get two cookies:

1. anyuser@apolyton.net

2. anyuser@qksrv[2]

Clicking on the Apolyton community, and trying to post a message I get this additional cookie.

3. anyuser@bfast[2]

here are the screenshots.

http://apolyton.net/upload/files/Ben%20Kenobi/gator2.bmp

http://apolyton.net/upload/files/Ben%20Kenobi/gator1.bmp

Now, checking my temporary internet files, this is what I see. A file called parasite?

http://apolyton.net/upload/files/Ben%20Kenobi/gator3.bmp

Clicking on the properties of the file,

[vovan]

Originally posted by Ben Kenobi
Now, checking my temporary internet files, this is what I see. A file called parasite?

Would that be Apolyton's script for checking whether your machine has any parasites? The one that put warnings on the front page if you do? Open it with notepad and see what's inside. Though don't double-click it to execute, in case it is, indeed, a parasite, though I'd think parasite-writers would be a little smarter than that.

[MarkG]

yeap, the parasite file is parasite.js, the javascript file that is run on our front page and checks for parasites...

the cookies that you got do not harm your computer, like all cookies