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Old 03-January-2009, 01:35 AM
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The past few months My Virus scanner kept picking up some malware, and I eventualy tracked one of them down as coming from one of the sites that the google ad server was presenting when clicking on the ads up top of the forums.

Because of this, I completely blocked traffic from google's ad server and the site that malware was coming from with my firewall.

I know the ad server helps to keep the cost down here so Please PM me if this will be a problem.
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I find IE transports a lot in too, I had a lot of problems with MALWARE. This problem was soon sorted out when I downloaded an anti malware onto my PC.
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Fraser has previously stated that blocking the ads is OK.
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Some Ads on BAUT are getting to be a bit over the top:

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