Full-page ads are really obnoxious.

[Celestein]

good lord troll much friend? Honestly Jaxel runs a perfectly good site, and you coming onto here insulting him trying to tell him how to run his site makes you look like a raging douche. If you have so many great ideas as to how run a site, go make your own otherwise shut up and be a member that doesnt constantly bitch. Otherwise leave :) also try not to troll my comment buddy boy ;)

In all technically, you "trolled" yourself by responding to someone you deemed to be a troll. Since the purpose of a troll is to get a response...any...response...should you be correct, I already won. So GG.

There are actually viruses out there that hijack ads on websites and replace them with their own malicious ads. Maybe he already has one of these viruses and because of it, he's starting to get inappropriate stuff.

In all seriousness, I'm fully aware of the possibility of that, but discounted it because:

#1. I experienced it on two different computers, my office one (Linux/Firefox/full lockdown-noscript etc), and home (OSX/Firefox/full lockdown-noscript etc). The chance of getting an identical Linux and an OSX virus within such a small window of time is pretty minuscule, especially when you account that the only browsing history I share between them is this and another forum I check at work. So if I did, there's a high chance I was infected here anyways...

#2. I'm reporting as virus free, the thing I noticed is it would direct to a normal looking ad and then I'd get a no-script warning about it attempting to launch a script, and one time an .exe. I know in the long-run that means little, as we all know anti-virus isn't very effective. Though in Linux and OSX there isn't the same capacity to hide secret files like Windows has, so I'm fairly confident.

The reality is most the people reporting "I've had no issues" here are computer illiterate to begin with, and you should know that. They would get infected and never know a damn thing about whether they did or didn't, that's the entire reason these things spread so easily.

It's fairly common for attack websites to buy ad-space, it's cheap and effective, that's why it's important as the manager of advertisement here for you to monitor potential threats.