Hullo

Ebay is [shawshank redemption] "giving me 5hit" [/shawshank redemption] at the moment and I wondered if anyone could shed any light on it.

There seems to some kind of j script file which keeps diverting me away from pages on ebay I WANT to go to - to some business exchange main page.

While its transferring I see (for a second) the words "adfarm" and "mediaplex" and doing a FIND for it brings up this script file in the following directory. Its called "promo_popout_mediaplex[1]" by the way.

C:\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5/LPKWXJK6.

Now I've been into the temp internet file folder manually and there is NO folder called "content.ie5" which worries me quite a bit, because all the cr4p clearly exists in it. Also deleting the script file does nothing because it seemingly re-generates after a couple of minutes, somehow! :confused:

Anyone help with a possible solution to this weird problem? I'm using Win98 BTW.

:cheers:

edit: small update. I succeeded in deleting the content.ie5 folder. Then as soon as I typed in www.ebay.co.uk in IE, it did the redirect thing again, and doing a find showed that that content.ie5 folder was back again!

Download Ad-Ware 6.0 from www.lavasoft.de and run a full scan. Sounds like some spyware has hijacked your IE :thumbdwn:

Jason, might be worth downloading a couple of spyware detecting apps. I use Spybot and Ad-aware (just google for them), which are good at detecting spy/adware, which might be causing this. Alternatively, that are some javascript 'viruses' which can do dodgy stuff like that.

Jason,

As already suggested, go find BOTH Spybot & Ad-aware. Both are excellent but each one in isolation can miss stuff the other will pick up

Agreed, your IE has been hijacked. one of those progs should fix it.

Jason,

Your temp. internet files will hide a lot of things, so never trust what you see.

Try the spyware programs as suggested, or for a quick fix *try*:

Tools > Internet Options > Delete Cookies

Tools > Internet Options > Delete Files (Tick box and press OK)

Tools > Internet Options > Clear History

Worth a try, but no promises, many files are *hidden* so they can work silently in the background...

you could try not downloading as much gay porn / naked men / beastiality etc

then you get less embedded adverts....

Ian says if you write gay enough in a thread then the google adverts will reflect this...

gay

gay

gay

gay

see if this works?

and lay off the gay porn jason. its gay.

It didn't work, you anti gay agitator you.

They do say he who protests too much he is not gay, is in denial of being gay, really.

Personally some of my best friends are gay (not).

What's wrong with being gay anyway?

PS Jason - are you running some kind of popup blocker? The pages you mention sound like things that often do pop up on eBay pages anyway. Also you should have no problem seeing your content.ie folder if you enable the "show hidden files" option in folder options. HTH.

Where is Rooboy when i need him

They do say he who protests too much he is not gay' date=' is in denial of being gay, really.

Personally some of my best friends are gay (not).

What's wrong with being gay anyway?

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maybe im gay? maybe im not.... who knows I get my decree tomorrow so maybe i am embarking on a whole new world?

i have gay friends... hi Ian hi Rob.....

nothing wrong with being gay like so many things in life it is better to give than to recieve.... :eek:

Well - thanks for all the comments, but I think [little britain] "Alex and Rooboy are the only gays in the village!"[/little britain]

Adaware has got ebay working as it should now, despite some other glitches which killed my TCP/IP / proxy thingy, but that's now sussed and I'm back.

Thanks for the suggestions!

:cheers:

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A word of warning about Spybot. If you do a search for it you may find yourself directed to an imposter. The real thing is at http://www.safer-networking.org/ .

As for browser hijacks, download Mozilla Firefox. It's far less prone to problems like this than IE. The best things about it are the tabbed browsing and built in pop-up blocking.

Well - thanks for all the comments' date=' but I think [little britain'] "Alex and Rooboy are the only gays in the village!"[/little britain]

sorry i'm late, i'll come quicker next time.

All i can say is don't knock it untill you have tried it. (like Dr pepper, but a nicer taste )