weird url problem

BOP

BOP

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Okay, so I'm on SMIBs online (SOMD), and I go to navigate back a page. I click...and nothing appears to happen. So, I click again to go back a page, and the browser moves back. I happened to look at the down arrow that shows you a list of pages you've been to, and I noticed several of the following:
https://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/page

And I'm not sure what else is in the string. Anyone know anything about this?
 
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ItalianScallion

Harley Rider
BOP said:
Okay, so I'm on SMIBs online (SOMD), and I go to navigate back a page. I click...and nothing appears to happen. So, I click again to go back a page, and the browser moves back. I happened to look at the down arrow that shows you a list of pages you've been to, and I noticed several of the following:
https://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/page

And I'm not sure what else is in the string. Anyone know anything about this?
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I had this happen a few times on here and it was adware. It seems to happen when I view the obituaries, mostly. I hear a lot of clicking.

You can do an anti virus scan but it's faster & easier to just click the "tools" down arrow, internet options, then delete cookies and browsing history and you're back to the normal one click.
 
BOP

BOP

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FireBrand said:
you done got dat ol' cyber syphillis from one of dem nasty websites :killingme
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That's why I only, er, accidently find myself on those nasty websites using one computer, not both.

I did some googling last night, and it's a problem that pops up and goes away every few years. It appears to be an attempted hijacking by doubleclick, but it's old software. Browsers nowadays won't let it happen, but I almost guarantee if you were to use a really old internet exploiter (I have a copy of 4.0 around here somewhere), you would get taken to another site.

I do find it curious that the url leads to a secure site, with an https leading the string.
 
Cheeky1

Cheeky1

Yae warsh wif' wutr
BOP said:
Okay, so I'm on SMIBs online (SOMD), and I go to navigate back a page. I click...and nothing appears to happen. So, I click again to go back a page, and the browser moves back. I happened to look at the down arrow that shows you a list of pages you've been to, and I noticed several of the following:
https://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/page

And I'm not sure what else is in the string. Anyone know anything about this?
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Sometimes I need to click the back button once and twice to navigate to the previous page.

It is the advertisements. For each click, one advertisement turns into a:

The page cannot be found
The page you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.


:shrug:
 
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