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Posted this in Bug Reports but realized I might find help faster here...

We are experiencing a major issue with unwanted ads popping up inside posts.

They were not placed by the poster.

When I try editing a post to view the content, there is no code to indicate an ad being pulled in. After entering edit mode and clicking Change Post, the offending ad disappears.

Our users are getting really annoyed (they think we are adding yet more advertising, we aren't).

Anyone have any ideas?

For an example of the intrusive ads, see this thread...
http://www.pianoworld.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/1746999

Bottom of second post shows an ad for Berklee Music (we didn't post that).



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So are they all Flash ads?
Do they only appear in posts that have images embeded?

I'm wondering if that's a clue...?

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They appear to be Google DoubleClick ads.
Our members are getting all wound up about the "New Ads".

I can't figure out how they got in there, or how to stop them.
Any ideas/help would be much appreciated.


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The ads are coming from this code:

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<script src=http://www.pianoworld.com/images/pianoworld.js>

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Thanks ScriptKeeper, you're absolutely correct, much appreciated.

Someone on the AdSense boards discovered the same thing, I didn't see it.

Now I need to figure out where my security hole is that let it get there in the first place. Scary.
I thought it might be a security hole in the UBB, but it appears to be worse as it's in the main site.




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