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[brightlywoven]

Is anyone else getting nasty ads from LJ that take over your browser pretending to 'look for malware'? I've had to force quit the program twice today and it's seriously irritating.

ETA: from other data points, it seems this is the effect of me subcoming to the ads account (so I could have more than 6 icons!) without coughing up for a paid account. My sincere apologies to anyone whose browser is being suspended in animation by these evil ads!

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[emily-shore.livejournal.com]

Not me. But then I have a paid account, so that may make a difference.

Data point 2

[overconvergent.livejournal.com]

Ditto, and ditto.

[tigerfort.livejournal.com]

Yes, although I've only seen them on your journal so far! (And you're not the only person I know with an ad-displaying account...)

Assuming that you're using a sensible browser (that is, not MSIE), you should be able to block them; they claim to come from malware-scan.com. I haven't seen one since adding *.malware-scan.com/* to my adblock filter list, but that might just be a happy coincidence of timing - I'll let you know if one does get through.

[alitalf.livejournal.com]

Me neither, and I also have a paid account. Would it be worth changing the settings to block popups, or is it not a popup that is causing the problems?

[tigerfort.livejournal.com]

It's not a pop-up; it hijacks the open window in a very annoying way (shrinking it down to dialogue-box size and stealing away the tabs, toolbars and even the window tools). However, adblock does seem to have dealt with it adequately, so that should be OK.

Separately: I have a free-no-ads account, but that doesn't completely solve the problem; if you're looking at the journal page for someone with a 'plus' ad-based account (rather than reading stuff on your flist) then you can still get hit with the nasty stuff. OTOH, having killed Ffox without touching the window after it was hijacked, it doesn't appear to have done any harm.

[half-of-monty.livejournal.com]

Have you got adblock plus installed? If not, get it! Bye bye ads.

[dr-biscuit.livejournal.com]

What is this masterpiece?

[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

Very much worth getting hold of - I don't have the URL to hand but a quick Google search should take you there. It does mean you end up with a lot of gaps on some news sites, for example, but better than some unwanted animation trying to sell you a car.

[half-of-monty.livejournal.com]

Yes, google for it, install it, and remember to also subscribe to lists of ad sites to block (the installation process takes you through this). Bye bye irritating bandwith-wasting banner ads, for good! And I don't agree that it looks bad on news sites - many are just left with a very small gap labelled "advertisement" where there was an annoying animation breaking up the text - much better to have got rid of them!

[sir-rosealot.livejournal.com]

No, but I have the basic free account that doesn't come with any ads.

[deepbluemermaid.livejournal.com]

I have a plus account but this hasn't happened to me yet. I have Adblock Plus and the Firefox add-on NoScript installed, which between them take care of quite a bit.