DigitalSpyWare Warning

Orry Verducci · Sat 23 Apr, 2005 21.42

I doubt the will get rid of the ads, it's how the get the money for the servers, vBulletin, ect.

Pete · Sat 23 Apr, 2005 21.43

yes but flash ads are particularly annoying

Chris · Sat 23 Apr, 2005 22.10

Orry Verducci wrote:I doubt the will get rid of the ads, it's how the get the money for the servers, vBulletin, ect.

The restricted sites method works for me - as I've said, I get no flash ads or any other sort of crap - only a white box - see pictures below.

Other than that, I get the occasional GIF ad, which I have no problems with.

I don't have a problem with the ads as such - so long as they don't affect the performance of my computer or do anything nasty or annoying to it, such as annoy me with puerile noises or pointless dizzying animations.

Although I think the BBC need to tighten their IT security policy - looking though the logs and specifically from the hits from the BBC's proxy servers, there appear to be some machines that have been installed with unwanted crapware - the "FunWebProducts" UA string indicated that some crapware like Smiley Central has been installed; this comes with the pain-in-the-arse to remove "MyWebSearch" which hijacks your IE settings.

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132.185.240.122 - - [19/Apr/2005:10:56:49 +0100] "GET /tvftemp/n24cd01.jpg HTTP/1.0" 200 64892 "http://www.tvforum.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=15327&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=24" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; FunWebProducts; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)"

Ant · Sat 23 Apr, 2005 22.13

A free programme called 'Adfree' blocks all adverts and you can replace the area with White, Black, Grey or also a picture of your choice.

marksi · Sun 24 Apr, 2005 23.13

I'm getting the same message on Digital Spy Forum pages this evening, and have found that something on some of those pages is trying to do redirect the browser to http://65.57.104.91/a/RealMedia/statsco.

Ant · Sun 24 Apr, 2005 23.15

marksi wrote:I'm getting the same message on Digital Spy Forum pages this evening, and have found that something on some of those pages is trying to do redirect the browser to http://65.57.104.91/a/RealMedia/statsco.

Same here. The DS staff are aware, and probably won't do a thing about it and accuse the members of doing it. :roll:

marksi · Sun 24 Apr, 2005 23.28

I have sent a message to James Welsh about it.

Ant · Sun 24 Apr, 2005 23.39

They already know about it but don't seem to have done anything.

Chris · Mon 25 Apr, 2005 00.13

Antz wrote:They already know about it but don't seem to have done anything.

Well, you know what DS are like nowadays - "use the contact centre", "please do not discuss banned members" *clang* *clang* etc. :roll:

They used to have a feedback forum where members could discuss the site, but in recent times they have pulled it in favour of their (IMO) ever so shite contact centre.

The feeling I get when using the contact centre is that I am contacting the members of some faceless organisation who doesn't give two flying shits about their customers/members, much like when I try and contact Dabs or eBuyer.