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Have you been redirected to spam sites from Y/A recently?
It seems like there is something strange going on that started recently. Occasionally when I click on a question link my browser redirects to one of several off-site ad pages (and I never get to see the question).
I'm thinking there are some "naughty" advertisements over on the right --->
OK thanks Whizzz, after reading that thread it's clear. It's not a "virus" in its traditional sense (I mean, there is nothing wrong with my PC) - it's some evil coding in certain ads by yieldmanager. The support team is asking for people to send in the tracking cookies so they can find and eliminate the bad ads.
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- ?Lv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
Yes and it's been happening to others on here. There is a thread about it on the suggestion board, it is a redirect virus and will usually take you to china tv--- http://suggestions.yahoo.com/detail/?prop=answers&...
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Yes, that has been happening to me recently.
Edit: By the looks of Ïнιzzz's answer. That would explain a lot. Maybe the only people being effected are those who don't have protection against viruses. My computer use to, but it hasn't been working well lately.
Why do people have to ruin everything?
Ex:
I don't think that it is the advertisements; they change depending on what country you are under. Right now I am under the France Yahoo site, so the advertisements I see are all in French. I don't think those adds have anything to do with it, if that is what you mean.
- 1 decade ago
No, but when I do a yahoo search from the main yahoo page it does that to me - sends me to other websites totally unrelated. I don't know if I have a virus/trojan or if it is a fluke with yahoo.
