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Unless CP has started serving up more ads, I think I have a virus or at the very least malware. For the last two days I've been seeing extra ads below the 'Last Updated' and 'All Rights Reserved' line normally the last thing at the bottom of the page. They are always one of two formats.
- Three banner ads stacked vertically.
- Four square ads aligned hoizontally.
The source for these ads is always cdn3.jsresource and each ad is inside its own iframe. This only happens on my home PC, never at work, on our tablets or on the wife's laptop.
I've tried the following in an attempt to detect anc remove whatever is causing the extra ads - Firebug shows there are over 200 extra calls happening when the ads appear.
- Kapersky, has been running for more than a year, nothing found.
- Malwarebytes, found one malware and removed, can't remember which.
- Spybot, found a few tracking cookies, but nothing major.
- Ad-Aware, found one biggie, END, and more low risk cookies, etc.
- HijackThis, I didn't notice anything odd except for an entry for Ask, which was pointing to a no longer existing location and a couple of BHO, all of which I had it fix.
At this point I have no other ideas on what to attempt except for possibly upgrading to Windows 10 and doing a backup and clean install. Seems a bit extreme to me, but I may not have any other choice.
If anyone has any ideas that I haven't thought of, I would be most appreciative.
"...JavaScript could teach Dyson how to suck." -- Nagy Vilmos
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What you can try is to create another user account on your computer, and test with that new account if you still have the problem.
If you don't, then just save your documents, delete your faulty user profile, and create a new one.
If you do, then I do not have any other idea than reinstalling your whole OS.
Good luck 
I never finish anyth
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phil.o wrote: reinstalling your whole OS.
Because of some ads?  Seems a tad extreme. Effective though, I'm sure. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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If the problem is OS-based, not profile-based, and the user cannot find the offensive bits, then yes, unfortunately, reinstalling the OS may be quicker than trying to find the problem.
In my work I'm often presented with this kind of issue; I prefer spending two hours reinstalling the OS rather than four hours searching in the registry and file system
I never finish anyth
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Do you get them on all browsers? If not, check your extensions.
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In addition to this check for any lingering files of those extensions or other settings. I once had malware that came with a piece of software I needed and it hijacked my browser. All searches were redirected to their search engine. I had used malwarebytes to remove it, went to search for the files and remove them, removed all extensions and in the end had to revert quite a few of my settings back to what they were.
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I does happen in all browsers, which I failed to mention. I've seen it in IE 11, Firefox, Chrome.
"...JavaScript could teach Dyson how to suck." -- Nagy Vilmos
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You could just allow the ads on CP.
This is how the site gets its money so it can offer you what it has to offer.
I'd rather be phishing!
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But if the ads are being injected by malware, or a crap ISP, then CodeProject won't get any revenue from them.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Go to BleepingComputer.com[^], click on Downloads and go to Page 5. Once there download TDSSKiller, Junkware Removal Tool and AdwCleaner.
Run them in that order and after the reboot see if anything is still there. If so remove any extension you don't know and you should be all good.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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I'll definitely give this a try tonight. During my searches I had seen a couple of hits for BleepingComputer, but as they were at least six years old hadn't really given it much weight.
The only extension I have added to Firefox is Firebug. And I've never installed extensions or add-ons in the other browsers, but I may have to disable or uninstall them anyway to get to the bottom of this. Besides, the virus itself may have install one.
"...JavaScript could teach Dyson how to suck." -- Nagy Vilmos
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Here's[^] another possibility, even if I don't really believe it, since your wifes computer isn't affected
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AdwCleaner then
Delete you temporary internet files - this is the big one as it will force your pc to fetch "clean" pages from cp and not the cache where the scripts be embedded.
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I used to get a fair bit of this sort of thing. When you've got everything cleared, I suggest adding Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit to your defensive arsenal. I've had no problems since I installed it.
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Looks like Github is down due to a network issue...
Dangit.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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How is that "red alert"? ...unless you need to check in/out some mission critical code changes, then it sucks to be you, or other people. 
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That's what this support person I got a reply from said. This glitch took down pretty much the entire site for several hours as they tried to fix it.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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I know there has been plenty of griping about Microsoft's Windows 10, but it finally sunk in to me the other day that there is a real departure here: Windows 10 privacy statement clearly states (or so I've read, not wanting to install that software on anything I own) that Microsoft will have access to all of a user's data on the host computer, e.g., folders, documents, etc., and will use it more or less as they see fit (to "help" the customer, to help MS tune their speech to text, to help law enforcement or friendly governments---all too friendly governments). I don't think this has been past practice for Microsoft or any operating system provider. Yes, Google, for example, routinely uses data that passes through its various services, but I for one have always made a distinction between what I choose to do in a cloud environment (email, cloud store) vs. my own private computer. I suspect most computer users, technical or otherwise, have had a similar paradigm, i.e., my computer is relatively private and the operating system which is necessary to use the computer (and in Microsoft's case has been granted a monopoly literally by government acquiescence to it constructing illegal barriers to entry in that market, e.g., poisoning the Java code base back when) has not been accessing my data and sending it to other places for agendas not my own (yes, I know malware and government surveillance software may do that, but the idea is that this is the exception, not the rule, or was). I personally am going to stick with earlier Windows versions to the bitter end and begin using Linux in parallel now, but I wonder if the public generally should be clearly informed that there has been a paradigm shift at Microsoft, who now view their OS as a service more or less free as Google services and with the same open door to their use of any and all user data associated with that service. I should add that I don't believe the future will be all cloud serviced devices. The whole point of the personal computer revolution (where I began) was to empower the individual and decentralize computing, not to set up a massive client server model. To begin such a massive centralizing effort in today's world is foolhardy when our infrastructure is incredibly fragile, the preference for individual and private computing aside.
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Ancient Zygote wrote: Windows 10 privacy statement clearly states ... that Microsoft will have access to all of a user's data on the host computer, e.g., folders, documents, etc., and will use it more or less as they see fit
Really? Where? I can't see anything obvious in the Microsoft Privacy Statement[^] or the Windows 10 privacy FAQ[^].
Even on Reddit[^], they accept that the single reference to accessing private folders refers only to content stored in OneDrive, not files stored on your local computer - as confirmed by MS support[^].
As an aside, you might want to invest in a new keyboard; one where the "Return" key isn't broken! 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Quote: As an aside, you might want to invest in a new keyboard; one where the "Return" key isn't broken!
Hear! Hear!
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon
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....
Additionally, your typed and handwritten words are collected to provide you a personalized user dictionary, help you type and write on your device with better character recognition, and provide you with text suggestions as you type or write. Typing data includes a sample of characters and words you type, which we scrub to remove IDs, IP addresses, and other potential identifiers. It also includes associated performance data, such as changes you manually make to text as well as words you've added to the dictionary.
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I understand this as everything you type will be saved for later use for your "dictionary"... and of course for perhaps other things as well?
Who the f*** is General Failure, and why is he reading my harddisk?
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So, in short everything your smartphone has been doing since the day you bought it and, more importantly, only if you opt to use a connected MS account to log in with. Hardly a paradigm shift of Earth-shaking proportions, now is it?
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Well, that is actually my point, i.e., I'm of the school that views a computer as a different environment than a smartphone. It is in fact an Earth-shaking paradigm shift to quietly turn every Windows OS user into a smartphone equivalent paradigm. Again, that's ok to offer the product and ok if you like it, I just think it needs to be made very clear to the public what is happening (which will be difficult apparently).
As for this behavior being invoked only following MS account sign in, I believe Microsoft intends that the Windows 10 user account is in fact a Microsoft account in that respect, whether linked to a previous MS online account or not. If you wade through the circular sequence of privacy statements you can reach from one of the earlier replies above you can pretty much gather that the intent is for you to logon to a cloud based service in Windows 10, an array of services really.
I assume the next objection (other than, "so what") will be why don't you just disable the services that are more invasive. I don't believe that is possible. MS has taken the design view that the OS is everything, as contrasted with a Linux/Unix view that an OS is a core of functionality between you and the machine and you run well-behaved modules on it, separately developed and maintained, etc. I know MS has been talking about needing to be intimately connected with the silicon, but I don't think that is a good idea for an OS generally, much less for a cloud service OS.
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No, you're making huge assumptions which bear little resemblance to the truth. You can use a local sign-in (I know because I do) which has no connection at all with any MS account. You can disable Cortana and other data exchange services including the cloud storage. The only exchange which you cannot opt-out of is the performance and update data which is completely anonymised and, in any case, is not new in W10.
The OS certainly allows you the option of operating your desktop or tablet as a mobile device similar to your phone but it does not require it and millions of us are happily using it as a simple, local OS in exactly the same way that we did W7 and those that went before that.
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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