# Something on the SDMB is blowing up my virus scanner
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-on-the-sdmb-is-blowing-up-my-virus-scanner/576942
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**Created:** [April 2, 2011, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-on-the-sdmb-is-blowing-up-my-virus-scanner/576942 "2011-04-02T14:04:41Z")
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### Author:  [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2011, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-on-the-sdmb-is-blowing-up-my-virus-scanner/576942/1 "2011-04-02T14:04:41Z")
Every time I click a link today, my virus scanner keeps warning me that it has blocked the below URL (broken for obvious reasons):
[http://http.cdnlayer.com/drivingrevenue/DR\_v4.js](http://http.cdnlayer.com/drivingrevenue/DR_v4.js)
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### Author:  [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2011, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-on-the-sdmb-is-blowing-up-my-virus-scanner/576942/2 "2011-04-03T14:21:37Z")
So…nothing from the admins about this?
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### Author:  [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)
#### Post date: [April 3, 2011, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-on-the-sdmb-is-blowing-up-my-virus-scanner/576942/3 "2011-04-03T20:18:16Z")
Interesting. I don’t have a particularly good answer for you because I am not techy enough, but I just checked Adblock Plus. That exact script is currently being blocked by Adblock Plus on my machine (along with scripts from [edge.quantserve.com](http://edge.quantserve.com), [insight-s3.exelator.com](http://insight-s3.exelator.com), [tap-cnd.rubiconproject.com](http://tap-cnd.rubiconproject.com), and www .google-analytics.com). Hmm…
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### Author:  [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2011, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-on-the-sdmb-is-blowing-up-my-virus-scanner/576942/4 "2011-04-04T00:53:30Z")
Found on Google, possibly useless, but maybe not: A reply from [another message board where this popped up](http://www.nestreetriders.com/forum/site-info-suggestions/64157-malicious-url.html):
> [@Admin of New England Street Riders forum](#):
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> We do use Driving Revenue code on this site, it just appends an affiliate code to any qualifying outbound links. It’s been on the site for over a year and it’s been the same code all along so I think it’s just a false positive.
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### Author:  [@chacoguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chacoguy)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2011, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-on-the-sdmb-is-blowing-up-my-virus-scanner/576942/5 "2011-04-04T01:29:59Z")
> [@Lord\_Ashtar](#):
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> So…nothing from the admins about this?
It’s fiiiiine.
You’ll be fine. 🙂
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### Author:  [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2011, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-on-the-sdmb-is-blowing-up-my-virus-scanner/576942/6 "2011-04-04T02:51:59Z")
Driving Revenue is part of the ad package – this is probably a misapplied link/malformed coding on the ad side.
[http://www.drivingrevenue.com/](http://www.drivingrevenue.com/)
Just the same, I’ll report this up to Jerry.
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### Author:  [@Gleena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gleena)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2011, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-on-the-sdmb-is-blowing-up-my-virus-scanner/576942/7 "2011-04-04T03:05:58Z")
It’s pinging my work virus check, too, just FYI.
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### Author:  [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2011, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-on-the-sdmb-is-blowing-up-my-virus-scanner/576942/8 "2011-04-04T03:07:39Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#):
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> Just the same, I’ll report this up to Jerry.
Thank you.
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### Author:  [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2011, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-on-the-sdmb-is-blowing-up-my-virus-scanner/576942/9 "2011-04-04T23:50:03Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#):
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> Driving Revenue is part of the ad package – this is probably a misapplied link/malformed coding on the ad side.
>
> [http://www.drivingrevenue.com/](http://www.drivingrevenue.com/)
>
> Just the same, I’ll report this up to Jerry.
So why is that script as well as the others I mentioned showing up in Adblock even for members (who don’t get ads)?