com/ufad.php

What is this?

[novice]

Searching on Google I noticed that there are a lot of results like (domain.com/ufad.php). These listings all go to one site with a single banner ad on the top. None of the domain.com/ufad.php appear to be related to domain.com. This also hold true for domain.net/ufad.php and domain.org/ ufad.php.A google search for (com/ufad.php)shows almost 10,000 results. What is this?

[edited by: WebGuerrilla at 7:29 pm (utc) on Feb. 5, 2003]

[Macguru]

I believe it is simply some banner add those sites are using.

[toadhall]

I agree with Big Mac...

It looks like a work around for banner ad placement to avoid the use of hosts files to divert the banner servers. The ufad.php probably contains a remote include() function to place the banner ad from the remote server. This way in order to block the banner ad with the host file you'd have to block the site you wish to reach. Or at least that's what they hope you'll think.

Your work around - view the source of the banner ad and copy the full domain that appears in the img src; add it to your hosts file.

[webmasterworld.com ]

T

[Macguru]

>>Big Mac...

Have you been talking to my GF recently? ;)

Thanks for the details toadhall. Very good explanation. It's now up to the GoogleGuys to remove this pollution from the index.