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Andres-Vander · 2011-01-10 12:12:43

I am using normal IE7, Windows XP, and I did not notice this anywhere else, but when I came to scratch today, there were literally a few dozen advertisements all over any given page.

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ihaveamac · 2011-01-10 12:32:53

Run a scan with any antivirus, antispyware, etc. app that you have.
Scratch has no offsite advertising.

Andres-Vander · 2011-01-10 12:39:24

ihaveamac wrote:
Run a scan with any antivirus, antispyware, etc. app that you have.
Scratch has no offsite advertising.

I have been, there's nothing. And I checked, Scratch.mit.edu is the only thing that does it.

ihaveamac · 2011-01-10 12:41:01

Andres-Vander wrote:
ihaveamac wrote:
Run a scan with any antivirus, antispyware, etc. app that you have.
Scratch has no offsite advertising.
I have been, there's nothing. And I checked, Scratch.mit.edu is the only thing that does it.

Scratch has no offsite advertising, so your computer must be infected.
Try scratch on another computer, if ads aren't on the other computer, your main might have malware.
See if Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware can detect anything, it has high detection rates.

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what-the · 2011-01-10 20:42:00

Delete your cookies and cache.
Scan your Computer for adware. If that doesn't work. Look at guides.

By looking at your picture this is what I found (Notice the IE pop ups)

Warning do this at your own risk. Try adware removal first.
http://spywareremovalguides.com/adware- … moval.html

I once got a redirect bug (Happens when website turns back an error like not found)and there was nothing on the internet about this. Everything said that you uninstall the program to turn it off but it didn't work. I eventually found out what caused it under network connections.

Andres-Vander · 2011-01-12 13:47:20

Okay on every computer I go to, on every browser, I am seeing these advertisements.

06dknibbs · 2011-01-12 17:22:40

If you can't find any virus's, did you download any add-ons such as a toolbar lately? A few of them try to trick you. They do the job they're supposed to do, but they also start turning common words such as "game" into pop-up advertisements like the one in your screenshots which = More money for the developers of the add-on.

Either way, it's a third-party creating these advertisements, not Scratch. If you can find the source then you should be able to solve the problem.

Jonathanpb · 2011-01-12 19:07:57

Andres-Vander wrote:
Okay on every computer I go to, on every browser, I am seeing these advertisements.

This is really puzzling me... Scratch has no advertising and will never have any, so this has to be something on your side... but on every computer and browser? How far apart are the computers? Are they in the same house or at other ends of a city?

ihaveamac · 2011-01-12 23:44:33

If they are in the same house, your NETWORK could be infected.
If they are on other ends of a city, then I don't know.

Shadowed1 · 2011-01-13 03:04:11

I know what happened!
I downloaded a program called 'Mighty Magoo' which is a games thing and probably you downloaded it too. So certain words appear highlighted and when you mouse over them, it comes up with an advertisement for some games.
To delete it, go to My Computer on the start menu and click Search. Type in 'Mighty Magoo' and it does a scan to see if there is any software in the computer contains that name.
Once it has completed the scan, there should be some items that are there. If you see a 'Mighty Magoo' folder on there, click on it. You can't drag the items into the recycle bin because the 'Mighty Magoo' application is in use (for the advertisements).
So click on the item that is named 'mmunstall' or something like that (it was a long time since I had this problem). It then uninstalls and it brings you to a website to say why you have deleted the software. Just say 'too many ads' and click next.
Then you're done!

If you can't solve it doing this, then I don't really know what to do. It worked for me, so...
If you can't, maybe your main network computer is infected.
If all else fails, try it one more time. Perhaps you spelled 'Mighty Magoo' wrong in the search or something like that.

scimonster · 2011-01-13 13:14:18

try logged out

Andres-Vander · 2011-01-14 15:21:15

Shadowed1 wrote:
I know what happened!
I downloaded a program called 'Mighty Magoo' which is a games thing and probably you downloaded it too. So certain words appear highlighted and when you mouse over them, it comes up with an advertisement for some games.
To delete it, go to My Computer on the start menu and click Search. Type in 'Mighty Magoo' and it does a scan to see if there is any software in the computer contains that name.
Once it has completed the scan, there should be some items that are there. If you see a 'Mighty Magoo' folder on there, click on it. You can't drag the items into the recycle bin because the 'Mighty Magoo' application is in use (for the advertisements).
So click on the item that is named 'mmunstall' or something like that (it was a long time since I had this problem). It then uninstalls and it brings you to a website to say why you have deleted the software. Just say 'too many ads' and click next.
Then you're done!

If you can't solve it doing this, then I don't really know what to do. It worked for me, so...
If you can't, maybe your main network computer is infected.
If all else fails, try it one more time. Perhaps you spelled 'Mighty Magoo' wrong in the search or something like that.

That Mighty Magoo thing is what pops up, but I can't find anything in any of the computers I use

SpaceManMike · 2011-01-15 08:44:04

I'm sure Scratch hasn't been hacked, but on a few websites I've trusted, whenever I move my mouse I get ads and popups.

EDIT: Most pop-ups are made of flash now. One of them could've downloaded malware to your computer, and then infected all of the computers on your network.

Last edited by SpaceManMike (2011-01-15 08:45:38)

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#1 2011-01-10 12:12:43

Ads on the forum and site?

#2 2011-01-10 12:32:53

Re: Ads on the forum and site?

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Re: Ads on the forum and site?

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#4 2011-01-10 12:41:01

Re: Ads on the forum and site?

Andres-Vander wrote:

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#5 2011-01-10 20:42:00

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Re: Ads on the forum and site?

Andres-Vander wrote:

#9 2011-01-12 23:44:33

Re: Ads on the forum and site?

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