# ad trojan horse warning **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [June 7, 2013, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ad-trojan-horse-warning/660392 "2013-06-07T16:24:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2013, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ad-trojan-horse-warning/660392/1 "2013-06-07T16:24:17Z")
I got an avast warning popup with the following details Infection Details URL: [http://optimized-by.rubiconproject.com/a/dk.html?defaulting\_ad](http://optimized-by.rubiconproject.com/a/dk.html?defaulting_ad) Process: C:\Program Files (x86)\Internet Explorer… Infection: HTML:Iframe-AMG [Trj] ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2013, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ad-trojan-horse-warning/660392/2 "2013-06-07T18:39:41Z")
I’ll report this. Unfortunately your link does not tell us anything except that you perhaps had a suspicious ad. Do you remember what you saw when you got to this page, if anything? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2013, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ad-trojan-horse-warning/660392/3 "2013-06-07T19:40:54Z")
I don’t like logging in when I’m on the work computer, so I get the pop-up ads when I visit the page. Recently there has been a pop-up ad that crashes the browser. Same one, maybe? ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2013, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ad-trojan-horse-warning/660392/4 "2013-06-07T19:48:14Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#): > > I’ll report this. > > Unfortunately your link does not tell us anything except that you perhaps had a suspicious ad. Do you remember what you saw when you got to this page, if anything? I was afraid of that, but figured I’d report it anyway. The work computer I’m on at the moment has ads enabled because I don’t like to mess with the configuration too much for a temporary computer. The ads on top change continuously and I didn’t know which particular one would have been going. It was not a pop-up ad. ---
**Author:** ![wedgehed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8edcca/32.png) [@wedgehed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wedgehed)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2013, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ad-trojan-horse-warning/660392/5 "2013-06-08T05:18:30Z")
Yeah, something screwy is going on here. Yesterday morning I got an Avast alert as soon as I got here & then IE crashed on me. I wish I could tell you more. ---
**Author:** ![doubleducky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eada6e/32.png) [@doubleducky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doubleducky)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2013, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ad-trojan-horse-warning/660392/6 "2013-06-08T12:25:18Z")
I found this site through a google search. Been here about 10 minutes or so, and IE has crashed 3 times. That’s not happened before. Something is amiss. Sorry this is the content of my first post. The content looks interesting, as does the community. I was exploring the 2013 subscription thread when I got the last crash, so I’ll go back to trying to find out about that. dd ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2013, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ad-trojan-horse-warning/660392/7 "2013-06-08T13:37:37Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#): > > Unfortunately your link does not tell us anything except that you perhaps had a suspicious ad. Do you remember what you saw when you got to this page, if anything? That’s the beauty of it! Nobody looks at ads, so the [del]scammers[/del] ad-makers can do anything they want, and no one will see them! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![wedgehed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8edcca/32.png) [@wedgehed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wedgehed)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2013, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ad-trojan-horse-warning/660392/8 "2013-06-08T14:30:51Z")
It just happened to me again. I grabbed a screenshot of the warning info. [Avast warning](http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y277/wedgehed/avastinfectiondetails_zpsd56b5d1b.jpg~original) ---
**Author:** ![ptr2void](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ptr2void/32/3406_2.png) [@ptr2void](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ptr2void)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2013, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ad-trojan-horse-warning/660392/9 "2013-06-08T17:18:39Z")
The domain in **wedgehed** ’s screenshot is owned by a Russian, which certainly (and unfortunately) adds to its illegitimacy. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2013, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ad-trojan-horse-warning/660392/10 "2013-06-11T02:33:59Z")
> [@wedgehed](#): > > It just happened to me again. I grabbed a screenshot of the warning info. > > [Avast warning](http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y277/wedgehed/avastinfectiondetails_zpsd56b5d1b.jpg~original) Sorry, I’m having a hard time loooking at this screenshot … can you send me a jpg directly? Maybe I’ll have more luck with that. I have forwarded all this upstairs. Sorry it happened to you. ---
**Author:** ![wedgehed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8edcca/32.png) [@wedgehed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wedgehed)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2013, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ad-trojan-horse-warning/660392/11 "2013-06-11T17:11:15Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#): > > Sorry, I’m having a hard time loooking at this screenshot … can you send me a jpg directly? Maybe I’ll have more luck with that. > > I have forwarded all this upstairs. > > Sorry it happened to you. Email sent.