Hi everyone,

Thank you for the reports of ads causing issues on FT.

First, please do follow the advice of those in this thread who have recommended reporting specific ads in the proper thread, with screen shots:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/techn...een-shots.html

Screen shots are generally the only way for us to identify an ad enough to get it blocked.

Second, as Prospero indicated, the promotion of technologies to circumvent ad displays is prohibited on FT. If you have any questions, please address them directly to me.

When you do report a bad ad, please indicate your geographical region, your device type and browser version. This can all help in resolving the issue you're experiencing.

Lastly, I highly recommend two things:

1. Do not use Internet Explorer
2. Do use Google Chrome (or Firefox)

Thank you for your patience!

Paul
Community Manager

odd. anyone else?

if already on page 2+, can manually change page number in url.

So.....
Tonight when I logged in I got tis message:
http://i61.tinypic.com/219w3z6.jpg

Typically that is a bad browser cookie. It's possible the cookie is associated in your browser with FT. Run your AV and clear your cache/cookies.

If you can screen shot the entire page when you see that, it might tell us if there is an issue with an ad.

That's a pity, I edited the pic to post it!
I routinely clear cache and cookies - every time I boot up and close down.
Since booting up this evening Flyertalk is the only website I have visited.

Edit : just completed a quick scan using Norton and nothing found

I too had an ad appear when using chrome on my HTC One and was opening a number of threads on the BAEC forum. The ad was stating my phone was infected.

I closed chrome, restarted phone and deleted cookies. No reoccurrence so far.

Ive had ads auto redirect me from ft before as well (most recent safari on iphone 4s). Curiously enough it happened again when i clicked on this very thread earlier today! Oddly it doesnt redirect to any seeming dodgy websites, often just the apple appstore. If it happens again i'll try to get screenshots as i have no idea which ad was the dodgy one. Good luck catching whoever is uploading them.

That's an exploit that Apple has yet to be willing to address. There's not much we have been able to do about that one.

Some companies do not allow people to add onto their work computers different internet access programmes. So they have to use IE or whatever their company allows.

Are FT still supporting the use of Flash considering today's complete blocking of Flash by Firefox (not pausing videos, not click to play, but completely blocked. Not old version, current version too). Flash has had and continues to have serious vulnerabilities on a continual basis - the below is a link to search results at the National Vulnerability Database right now for Flash - over 50 individual vulnerabilities, almost all of them with a severity score of 10.0.

https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/s...months&cves=on

Using Flash is a serious risk for users. I would urge FT to review their stance/policy/intransigence on the usage of Flash.

The latest version is 18.0.0.209 which Firefox is allowing this afternoon and is not mentioned (yet) in the NVD

So - I jut had this page:

http://i60.tinypic.com/2nsu9nm.jpg


change to this page:

http://i61.tinypic.com/zoj5lz.jpg

Doesn't anyone monitor these threads??

Yes, thank you for your inquiry. Can you clarify your technical issue, so that I can best assist you?

Thanks - the issue is in the previous post - Norton blocking a malicious web attack - which is a message I only ever get browsing Flyertalk BA