Important- Redirecting Ads

[WebmasterCorey]

We are aware of this. This is nothing we are doing on our side and we have notified Google Ads of the problem. There is a bad ad that managed to get into the network that is redirecting people to random sites. Some might be malicious so please do not download anything if you see a notification to do so.

We are working on this and hopefully will have an answer or a solution soon.

 

[WebmasterCorey]

I also want to add that we are not the only site affected by this. It's happening to others too.

 

[jliehr]

I also want to add that we are not the only site affected by this. It's happening to others too.

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/adsense/szfNNkPrkLI

Yep it is adwynne.com. You can test this by enabling (Ad review center) on your adsense account. The ad review center lets you see all of the ads that are being displayed on your site. If you set a filter to display adwynne.com ads, you will display those ads for a moment, and then you will be redirected (from your adsense account!) to the lemode-mgz website. So, click on Advertiser URLs, and enter adwynne.com into the blocked category. There may be other ads that are doing the same thing. In order to find those, just page through your ads until you get a redirect. Take note of the page number. Then go to that page again, but quickly press print screen before getting redirected. Open Paint, Photoshop, or some other service to look at the image. You will see 21 ads that are displayed on that page. You can then systematically set a filter in the ad review center to look at each individual ad. Eventually, one of your filters will result in a redirect, which means you have found the culprit. Ad the website to your block list, then let the rest of us know what the website is so we can do the same thing!

 

[squirk]

How fricking long should it take for Google to solve the problem? I know they're a small, technologically unsophisticated business with little in the way of resources, but still.....

 

[squirk]

Funny how one of the banner ads is now "Remove Redirect Virus"....

It took me literally six tries to get to the forums from wdwinfo.com without being redirected by an ad. By far, the worse redirect "episode" for me to date.

I appreciate this is nothing the DIS is doing, but the problem here is far worse than any other site I visit that's affected. At some point, you have to be held accountable for what's on your site.

I simply do not believe that a company with the resources and technological sophistication of Google cannot fix this problem with their own ad service. If I am right, are you guys not able to hold Google accountable for this protracted problem?

My guess is that the DIS has left the ads up for weeks because pulling them altogether, assuming you even could, would result in an unacceptable drop in revenue. Probably far cheaper to keep aggravating people and lose only a handful of visitors.

But seriously, the site is becoming unusable.

 

[Geoff_M]

In the last several days, on two occasions I got redirected to the web page for "OpenDownloadManager.com" wanting me to download their product... which is known malware. When I hit the "back button" on the browser the process will repeat a couple of times, until the DIS banner ads rotate to something else. I've checked and my PC is not infected, and it does not happen with other sites I frequent.

 

[bumbershoot]

This hasn't happened in days, but it just happened again as I went from Universal Resorts to Trip Reports.

Website directed to is: http://sponsor.adverstitial.com/vie...amp=748590&w=728&h=90&rnd=5917106040281639192