i assure you, we do take this seriously and you'd be very proud of our volunteer moderators who take companies and spam initiatives like this very seriously. They have shut down thousands of similar stuff. There is nothing better for me than find this stuff and shove it in the face of our ad agency because they know we don't like to be bothered with distraction.
Never hesitate to let us know of anything though there will be things that are more relevant to the Internet than just FlyerTalk.
I'm going to go check the kpremium thing, just to make sure.
Again, thanks for the heads up and the support of FlyerTalk.
Cheers,
Randy
Originally Posted by Deimos
Thanks Randy for your time in investigating this, I am happy to see that it is taken seriously. I think I have seen this happen in total around 5 or 6 times over the last couple of weeks so it is certainly not something which happens daily. I have also implemented my own "dirty hack" type workaround for a couple of my computers by making them resolve
www.errorsafe.com to an IP which will reject connections, so I won't be seeing it on those computers in the future. Anyway, the errorsafe people can be quite sneaky in the way they place their ads, you most likely won't see them actually placing an ad under the name errorsafe. A couple of examples that I found:
Here you can find a story of how they hid their ads on LiveJournal, and made sure they looked normal initially. Those ads were placed by kpremium.com.
Over in the
Geekzone forum they seem to have had the same problem recently, and their thoughts seem to be that it came through Google AdSense. I tend to think that may have been the case here as well as it was so random.