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Old 06-10-2008, 05:35 AM   · #1
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Google Poker Ad Banner ?

Is anybody else getting a very annoying skyscraper banner down the right hand side of their screen whenever they try and use Google ? Is it Google doing this or has my browser been hijacked ? It's very annoying.

It seems it's also changed my homepage to Google with a banner ad. Very disturbing !

It looks like it's some sort of homepage hijacker set up to look like Google but with a poker ad. which probably does nasty things if you click on it.


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Old 06-10-2008, 07:35 AM   · #2
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Old 06-10-2008, 09:05 AM   · #3
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Originally Posted by advaita
Is anybody else getting a very annoying skyscraper banner down the right hand side of their screen whenever they try and use Google ? Is it Google doing this or has my browser been hijacked ? It's very annoying.

It seems it's also changed my homepage to Google with a banner ad. Very disturbing !

It looks like it's some sort of homepage hijacker set up to look like Google but with a poker ad. which probably does nasty things if you click on it.



I don't have a banner on my google but what is more interesting is they shut down my advertising for my sites that related to Poker.
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Old 06-11-2008, 08:55 AM   · #4
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It seems that somehow my homepage was hijacked and sent to a place that looked exactly like Gogle apart from the poker banner - after a lot of messing around I did a 'restore system' to one week back in time and got rid of it.
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Make sure you run Ad-Aware from time to time and set ActiveX to prompt before installing to prevent your browser being hijacked again.
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