Google Reports 5 Percent Of Users Infected By Ad Injectors

[Guest]

Google, working with researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, conducted a study that found 5 percent of users visiting Google sites were infected with Ad Injectors.

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[whiteodian]

I think I'm infected here on Tom's. Every time I move my mouse around on this page, annoying pop-ups appear all over the place and block the content of the article I am trying to read. They say AdChoices on them and are super obnoxious. I don't mind the right 1/3 of my screen having ads, but the pop-up ones drive me nuts. Also, on my phone, when I scroll the Tom's articles, I get to this point where the browser hardly moves at all until I scroll up past this annoying ad. I only have this issue on Tom's so I think the website must be infested.

 

[LightSwordM]

First, you should see if they are any malicious software installed on your computer. Second, if you do, use CCleaner to do the job for you(uninstalling them). Third, if there arent any, Tom Hardware is really infested!

 

[sykozis]

The last malware infection I got, came from ads on this site. The number of ads displayed is ridiculous. According to ABP, it's currently blocking 12 ads while Disconnect claims to be blocking an additional 5 ads. That's a total of 17 ads being blocked, just to make this post from the forum....and I still had an ad from Pagefair being displayed.

 

[Guest]

Kept getting this issue with extensions in Chrome on my Win7 laptop, even after deleting the files, running CC Cleaner, running extensions in developer mode, etc...

I ended up just deleting Chrome altogether and use Firefox and Comodo browsers now (only) and have ZERO issues with the laptop.

This issue has not affected/appeared in my Win8.1 desktop at all and use Chrome on it almost exclusively.

 

[pjmelect]

The easy way to get rid of these Ad injectors is to reset your browser, for Chrome follow these instructions.
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/reset-google-chrome-how-to,news-18821.html

 

[knowom]

First, you should see if they are any malicious software installed on your computer. Second, if you do, use CCleaner to do the job for you(uninstalling them). Third, if there arent any, Tom Hardware is really infested!

I always use the registry cleaner as well immediately after uninstalling a program with CCleaner.

Another thing regarding CCleaner it's also great for clearing web browser settings that try to force users into clicking on a link to install software which is rather handy.

 

[knowom]

How many of those Ad's did "Google" include of it's own? AdWords is just as much guilty of the same ad infection rate crime if not the biggest culprit of them all.

 

[Solandri]

The easy way to get rid of these Ad injectors is to reset your browser, for Chrome follow these instructions.
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/reset-google-chrome-how-to,news-18821.html

If you've signed into a Google profile with Chrome, resetting it isn't enough. Even reinstalling it isn't enough. Its config and extensions get sync'ed to the cloud, and will auto-infest Chrome when you reinstall it (or install it on a different computer) and sign in again.

You need to wipe your sync'ed profile in order to permanently eradicate the malware.

Completely uninstall and reinstall Chrome. Then, before you login to Chrome for the first time, disable sync of the item you think is causing the corruption.
Chrome -> Settings -> Advanced Sync Settings.

If you're unsure which item is causing the corruption, you'll have to figure it out through the process of elimination. If you're OK with losing all your sync'ed data, you can just disable everything, no need to find the culprit.

Now, login to Chrome and delete the sync'ed data from Google's Servers.
http://www.howtogeek.com/103655/how-to-delete-your-google-chrome-browser-sync-data/?PageSpeed=noscript

 

[buhusky]

This is easy to fix. Install Adblock Plus and also enable click-to-play in Chrome. Takes less than 60 seconds and inconvenience factor is very, very low

 

[qlum]

Usually adwcleaner does a great job of cleaning the mess but personally I am kind of supprised that its only 5% that is infected

 

[M0j0jojo]

I had this problem, couple of months ago. Even though i had ad block enables it randomly showed ads. I fixed it by uninstalling chrome and re-installing again.

 

[kittle]

Yet one more reason to run adBlock software on every PC I own.

I used to have the same problem on this site as @whiteodian until I installed some adBlock software. after that, the problem vanished.

 

[ubercake]

This just in... Ad-injection company "Reports 5 Percent Of Users Infected By Ad Injectors".

 

[slyphnier]

CCleaner wont remove malware...

beside adblockplus, people that paranoid can use "malwarebytes anti-exploit" for extra protection