Starting today, I’ve been seeing some weird behaviour from the ad banners here, including firing up Java but not actually doing anything, causing the “do you want to resubmit this form data?” when going back, and an attempt to run something with an unsigned certificate from “google-adservices.com”, which is clearly not associated with Google.
Anyone else seeing these, in case it’s just a local browser hijack?
Yes, I’m seeing a Certificate Trust message in Firefox from the dodgy google-wannabe site. I just keep hitting “No, don’t trust” and moving on. I’m not sure which ad banner is causing it.
That’s really weird, you’d think google would be above that kind of nonsense… although I guess google=doubleclick.net now and doubleclick isn’t above grinding up bleached baby bones to make flour for their daily bread.
I just had Java start up for no apparent reason and then a status bar notification from Google telling me that something tried to change my default search settings and it blocked it from happening.
I got the same thing, multiple stacked (10+) security permission request pop-ups from “Security CC LTC”. The only thing open was the new posts page from Qt3, with a blank ad banner.
There have been Java exploits that let an applet get native access to your system, though I think they were in older versions of the JRE so you should be fine if you’re up-to-date. It’s extra-suspicious that the Java appears to be going ahead and running for some of you, though; it’s been blocked by an untrusted certificate prompt for me.
I’m turning off in-browser Java anyway, just to be safe, as I don’t think I’m using it anywhere anyway.
Yep. Have been getting the same frequently today. Really annoying, as it spams the Firefox warning dialog constantly until you manage to reload the page so that some other ad appears.
This has been happening to me too but while my pages were minimized, not the selected window, etc. I assumed it was some sort of really transparent spyware and I’ve run Spybot S&D like 3 times now. Never connected it with Qt3’s banner ads.
According to this, it looks like this is happening all across google adsense. I would hope google fixes it soon. Until then, don’t accept the security warnings.
I can’t replicate it, even when refreshing a couple dozen times, so I dunno. Maybe your machine is trojaned.