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Now since this morning, I don't see anymore the big 728px adsense ad on my site, they are all furiously replaced with amazon ads of the same format. When I mouse over I notice the link is a direct link to amazon. It appears to do it from my computer only, again, as I asked a friend to check from his, and he correctly see the google ads.
Clearing the cache won't help. Is there a ghost in my machine that don't want me to see google ads on my own site?
I don't want these amazon ads and have not a single clue as to why this is hapening?
Did anyone experienced similar problem?
Brakkar
...I assume you didn't set up Amazon links as a default ad block.
I didn't set anything special about amazon... it's been over a year that I have this code in my page.
I sent an email to adsense see if they are aware of this but it is so WEIRD!
Brakkar
Could this be a kind of unknown spyware that will replace google ads? I'm so annoyed by this.
Cordially,
Brakkar
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If many people are affected, this could be a huge gain loss for all webmasters using adsense.
It is quite similar to what I have, but not the same, as my ads clearly don't look as google ads.
I have kaspersky anti hacker, anti virus, I just run ad-aware and didn't found anything particular, still i'm infected...
Brakkar
I have the amazon link url, I will contact them...
With the recent Adwords fiasco, perhaps Amazon is one of the few customers Google has left?
Can't tell if you are joking or not. Seems unlikely. All the uproar over in the AdWords area could be generated by a very small percentage of advertisers, with the vast majority unaffected. If the situation was half as dire as some of the complainers make it out to be, Google would have rolled back the changes.
What's happened to him has to be malware on HIS computer.
Not sure if the "-20" is part of the code, but in any case it shouldn't be hard for someone with a clue at Amazon to see what's happening.
BTW, did you try doing a ctrl-alt-del and looking to see if anything was running that shouldn't be? Usually you need Google to track down what a lot of the active programs are for, but if you can find the rogue executable there's a good chance you can track it down and delete it from your HD.
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I think thats the affiliate ID. I've seen '-20' appended to them before.
I still don't know what is in my computer, but it is pretty damn efficient, and neither spybot, ad-aware detect anything.
After I send them some screens, they clearly identified that these ads i'm seing were not part of the google adsense program, that i'm the only user in the world affected by this, and that I should clear my HD.
So I'm still stuck... since neither ad aware, spybot, and kaspersky detect any spyware...
Brakkar
Use a Tool which show which process are running on your computer(windows task manager will not help)
other thing could be your ISP which is doing this.
other thing could be your ISP which is doing this.
That's an investigation i'm going to conduct.
Do you know which utility I could use to see which process are running since there is nothing suspicious in windows task manager?
Thanks,
Brakkar
