https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Technical-Issues/Google-Ad-banner-serving-up-malware-from-dollarcreative-com/m-p/2217535#M3036 <P>@wizzkids,</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>You're not talking to eBay by posting in this forum. It is a public board, part of the <STRONG>eBay Community</STRONG> › <STRONG>Discussion Boards</STRONG> (in spite of also being under the <STRONG>Inside eBay</STRONG> and <STRONG>Technical Issues</STRONG> sub-forum headings).</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>To clarify, there is no forum whereby you're contacting eBay. This particular board is called <STRONG>Technical Issues</STRONG> but it's not a conduit to eBay IT. It's still part of the <STRONG>eBay Community discussion boards</STRONG>, and the responders are eBay member just as you are an eBay member.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Therefore... no one here can "stop serving up malware in Google Ad banners".</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>If your browser is being hijacked and redirected to another site, you should take steps to protect your computer. Have you good anti-virus software? Run a full scan. Try downloading a free edition of malwarebytes and run that. Clear cookies and cache, possibly history as well. Do a hard refresh (Ctrl-F5). If you're using IE, you should switch to using Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome as your browser, and make sure that you have AdBlock Plus (or similalr) add-on installed and active.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>(I should mention that the dollarcreative.com redirect is quite well-known and these browser redirects are occurring on a number of sites; it's not an eBay issue in itself, but rather the fact that Google adwords are being misused by hackers/scammers.)</P> Mon, 04 Feb 2019 12:28:41 GMT countessalmirena 2019-02-04T12:28:41Z https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Technical-Issues/Google-Ad-banner-serving-up-malware-from-dollarcreative-com/m-p/2217524#M3034 <P>I have just been attacked twice in two days by malware delivered in your Google Ad banner. My browser was hijacked and redirected to dollarcreative.com and then to a bunch of bogus security warnings and other **bleep**. Please stop serving up malware in Google Ad banners!!!</P> Mon, 04 Feb 2019 12:07:49 GMT https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Technical-Issues/Google-Ad-banner-serving-up-malware-from-dollarcreative-com/m-p/2217524#M3034 wizzkids 2019-02-04T12:07:49Z https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Technical-Issues/Google-Ad-banner-serving-up-malware-from-dollarcreative-com/m-p/2217533#M3035 <P>Members here are all buyers and sellers exactly like you and are in no way responsible</P> Mon, 04 Feb 2019 12:25:10 GMT https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Technical-Issues/Google-Ad-banner-serving-up-malware-from-dollarcreative-com/m-p/2217533#M3035 Anonymous 2019-02-04T12:25:10Z https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Technical-Issues/Google-Ad-banner-serving-up-malware-from-dollarcreative-com/m-p/2217535#M3036 <P>@wizzkids,</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>You're not talking to eBay by posting in this forum. It is a public board, part of the <STRONG>eBay Community</STRONG> › <STRONG>Discussion Boards</STRONG> (in spite of also being under the <STRONG>Inside eBay</STRONG> and <STRONG>Technical Issues</STRONG> sub-forum headings).</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>To clarify, there is no forum whereby you're contacting eBay. This particular board is called <STRONG>Technical Issues</STRONG> but it's not a conduit to eBay IT. It's still part of the <STRONG>eBay Community discussion boards</STRONG>, and the responders are eBay member just as you are an eBay member.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Therefore... no one here can "stop serving up malware in Google Ad banners".</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>If your browser is being hijacked and redirected to another site, you should take steps to protect your computer. Have you good anti-virus software? Run a full scan. Try downloading a free edition of malwarebytes and run that. Clear cookies and cache, possibly history as well. Do a hard refresh (Ctrl-F5). If you're using IE, you should switch to using Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome as your browser, and make sure that you have AdBlock Plus (or similalr) add-on installed and active.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>(I should mention that the dollarcreative.com redirect is quite well-known and these browser redirects are occurring on a number of sites; it's not an eBay issue in itself, but rather the fact that Google adwords are being misused by hackers/scammers.)</P> Mon, 04 Feb 2019 12:28:41 GMT https://community.ebay.com.au/t5/Technical-Issues/Google-Ad-banner-serving-up-malware-from-dollarcreative-com/m-p/2217535#M3036 countessalmirena 2019-02-04T12:28:41Z