RTG Getting pop-ups, Audio, redirects, ads overlaying text, malware reports from ads please read this

Thanks @Bluepaul, its not specifically a Xenforo thing and is coming from the adverts - but forums have been targeted by the scammers (as you say, not just RTG. Speaking to other forum owners, many have been hit).

The problem is that we all sell our ad space through ad-exchanges and the ads basically go to the highest bidder but we have little control over what is actually displayed. It's always worse at holiday periods because the scammers realise that people aren't around to stop the rogue ads.

Forums, and particularly football forums tend to get much lower ad rates than most sites, so obviously its cheaper for the scammers to get ads on sites like these.
 


I keep getting redirected to "The Banana Song" on youtube. It can be any thread I click on, even just the main forum home page. W7 laptop, BT broadband, Google Chrome.
 
This still happens every time I'm on mobile internet.. Really annoying when 'hijacked'. I'm on vodafone by the way, but same happens on O2
 
The banana song has been getting worse for me. I actually just got redirected to it trying to get to this page!

It's happening on my phone now as well as laptop.

W7/Chrome/BT
Android/Chrome/Wifi and Tesco
 
Exact same but on Bell

I'll block mobile ad serving to AT&T and Bell, hardly a massive chunk of the ad revenue and I have no way of testing US networks. (Change normally takes about an hour to kick in)

If you could try the test pages linked here though that would be helpful as it should tell me which network they are coming from.
 
I'll block mobile ad serving to AT&T and Bell, hardly a massive chunk of the ad revenue and I have no way of testing US networks. (Change normally takes about an hour to kick in)

If you could try the test pages linked here though that would be helpful as it should tell me which network they are coming from.
All the tests were good. 5 took around a minute to load like. Tried it a few times and it always took a lot longer than the others

I was directed to
Congratulations!

This morning
 
I have been getting this audio redirect intermittently for months in chrome on my LG G6 phone with the forum:

Code:
https://www.facebook.com-amazon-gift.com/Gift-Card#

Just got again today.

Prolly happens a couple times a week.
 
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Since the update this site has been freezing (over 10 seconds at a time) and I just got a pop up too that looked like malware trying to run something on my computer.

Sort it out Roger marra I'm trying to see what happened to SBC on the plenty of fish thread and it keeps freezing, its doing my head in.
 

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