I made a post about them a while back, but apparently it went ignored because I still get emailed several times a day about them. The short of it is, I have hired people to rebuild the site, and they are doing what they can to solve it.
If you want to help me get rid of them, this is what my tech guys sent me on the matter;
“To be short, can you get a copy of the source code (or just a saved page) when the spam pops in, we cannot for the life of us get it down here and from what Matt and I can tell, it’s insertion at a higher level than your website.”
It’s a problem that randomly pops up and goes away and only a handful of people see. I myself have never come across the spam links in any browser or system, but if you see them you can help me out by getting a copy of the source code.
Thanks!
I’ve never seen ads on your site, and I follow all updates through RSS.
I do know some malware manifests itself that way though, instead of making popups by themselves they make popups come up from webbrowsers. In that case there is nothing you can do, it’s on the visitors’ side
They’re not popups, they’re simple Project Wonderful jpgs.
Alicia appears to be referring to these spam links. I’ve seen a similar effect, where malware inserts spam links and ads straight into the code of sites visited by its victims. The worst I saw also redirected every Google search link to pages full of more spam links and malware.
The point is, if this were on your end it should be showing up for every user every time. If your tech guys can’t find anything I wouldn’t lose much sleep over it. Your readers just need to get better antivirus.
I resent that remark.
Also buy penis drugs and stuff.
I was reading the archives today, and ran into the spam. I was reading http://thepunchlineismachismo.com/archives/838 and the source is on pastebin at http://pastebin.com/vHDHjDrJ
It seems the spam is part of the page’s text, located after “widget-foot” and its 3 ancestors are closed, and before “div class=”post-838”
Here’s another one, on http://thepunchlineismachismo.com/archives/953; page source at http://pastebin.com/hR6zrLUZ.
I see the links in neither case.
But… I NEVER LEARNED HOW TO READ!
Wait. Are we supposed to see Project Wonderful ads at all or not? I just saw two on the home page, one under the current comic (Garrus being a brony) and one at the bottom above the donate button. If that’s normal, I’ll just carry on. If not, I did a “View Source” and have it saved if you want it.
Project wonderful ads are supposed to be there, the spam ads are some SEO crap for like, viagra and shit like that.
Ok, great. It looks like I’m just seeing what I’m supposed to be seeing then. :) (I didn’t see anything wrong with the Project Wonderful ads so I was curious as to why they would be a problem…)
I see these pretty frequently–I’ll try to remember to grab a copy of the source code next time! I don’t know if it helps or not but I’ve tried turning AdBlock on and off to see if that does anything to it but it doesn’t have any effect on the spam. (I usually keep it off here!)
I will remember this protocol in the future. My apologies if I was a bother.
I follow the feed and website, and i don’t think i’ve ever seen spam like this.
If only a small number of readers experience this, maybe it’s just malware on their computers? Do they experience it with other websites too, or just this one?
Well my friend,
I don’t agree with the problem “malware on local machine”. I’m running Kaspersky (I know it is not a 100% proof of a clean machine) and got these links too.
HTML-code: http://pastebin.com/mXr1myp3
and my code was generated at 22-33 GMT not 23-33 GMT
Well crap. I guess i have to admit i was wrong then, because i lashed out quite a bit @ people for being techno-illiterate and most likely the problem was on their end. I have great respect for kaspersky and they seem to be decent on the customer service end even. So, if you got the spam maybe i was wrong.
The thing that blew my mind is that im running practically unprotected, using an older IE which we all know malware is tailored for because of joe sixpack not knowing anything, and i STILL have not gotten it even ONCE. I wouldn’t even know what it looked like except someone posted a screenshot link once.
I still find it hard to believe due to my own experience, but i guess people are actually getting it. My only saving grace is that i schedule spybot and ad-aware to run overnight cleanups when im asleep. I guess that really pays off because
i don’t get any issues just surfing. Now windows itself ……. whole nother bag of potatoes. Just so i don’t seem so self centered on this, i suggest people use both spybot search and destroy, and ad-aware. why not? they’re both free downloads and can be automated to run whenever you want.
Are the Scribol ads intentional as well, or are they being injected?
They’re supposed to be there.
That little speech sounds like something out of metal gear solid…
http://pastebin.com/zqL986DR
Do you email the htm file to someone? o.o
Ah, someone emailed me the code and I sent it along to the techfolk, shold be cleared up ASAP.
Well, in case you need another one, just showed up today
http://pastebin.com/9FCtDGt7
Just ran into the spam links too. Figured I’d post the code as well just to be safe.
http://pastebin.com/2vzGfseb
Is this entire arc an excuse to make that Glampire pun?
http://pastebin.com/te3D4SVv
line 218. hnnng
Here’s a paste bin of spam links on your comic from last week.
http://pastebin.com/zxWz3uLP
http://thepunchlineismachismo.com/archives/1055
That comic.
the sourcecode with the spam I hope you can see it (first time using pastebin)
http://pastebin.com/UTVyKgNf
http://pastebin.com/91y2nmR9
I’m sorry, but this just happened to me for the first time, on the home page. Though it looks like it is still following right after the legitimate ad spot. The link above has the spam code in it.
I’m afraid I just got hit with it too.
http://pastebin.com/khB1jmsi
Er, I ran into them today, as well. Here’s a link to the source code:
http://pastebin.com/488gs45P
got one myself: homepage, most recent comic. At the moment, whenever I go to the homepage they show up, for any other page they do not. http://pastebin.com/NpgSVvp4
http://pastebin.com/ZSbdUm7d
and : http://i.imgur.com/4m3K6.png
It looks like the ads are piggybacking off of something that isn’t the ad, since if you try to block the ads with the adblocker extension in chrome it’ll just hide the entire column, comic and all.
Here’s another:
http://pastebin.com/xFWcwYzD
Here’s another example
http://pastebin.com/XJsGVqUj
http://i.imgur.com/QgDbf.png
hate to be the bearer of bad news, but just saw another one of these pop up today:
http://pastebin.com/U5XJVwEh
shows up on the homepage under the latest comic. Firefox 11.0, Windows 7