unwanted and unauthorized ads on website!, There are unauthorized ads on my website Options

[jworld2]

Hey I wasn't sure if this was supposed to go here or in the markup section.

My website - jworld2.sitesled.com, and I think all the other html pages hosted on my server account have unauthorized ads placed on them. If you click the link you can see it. It is the only ad on the site.

Viewing the page source, I found some html that I did not put there-

<BR><BR>
<BR><BR>
<CENTER>
<script language='JavaScript' type='text/javascript' src='http://www.wecounthits.com/process/adengine/adx.js'></script>
<script language='JavaScript' type='text/javascript'>
<!--
if (!document.phpAds_used) document.phpAds_used = ',';
phpAds_random = new String (Math.random()); phpAds_random = phpAds_random.substring(2,11);

document.write ("<" + "script language='JavaScript' type='text/javascript' src='");
document.write ("http://www.wecounthits.com/process/adengine/adjs.php?n=" + phpAds_random);
document.write ("&what=zone:44");
document.write ("&exclude=" + document.phpAds_used);
if (document.referrer)
document.write ("&referer=" + escape(document.referrer));
document.write ("'><" + "/script>");
//-->
</script><noscript><a href='http://www.wecounthits.com/process/adengine/adclick.php?n=aa7be145' target='_blank'><img src='http://www.wecounthits.com/process/adengine/adview.php?what=zone:44&n=aa7be145' border='0' alt=''></a></noscript>
</CENTER>


I tested this code and figured out that it is indeed this that created the ads on my site. Right clicking on the ad and going to properties, in the address section, I found a url that resembled this- http://b1.adbrite.com/iads/22644.gif. I say it only resembled that because the ads are not always the same and the url may be slightly different. But the url always says "adbrite" in it. I searched about adbrite and it seems to be a professional ad placing service.

You can see the url for wecounthits.com. I went to that site and it is a statcounting site that says it does not put ads on people's sites. I put in the url http://www.wecounthits.com/process/adengine from above. If you click on that link, you go to a page that says welcome to phpAdsNew, which I found out is now Openads. That is as far as I got into finding the source of the ads.

I may just be going nowhere here, but I was hoping that somebody knows anymore about this. It may just be the work of hackers. I was also hoping that there would be a way to get rid of the ads without having to upload all of the html files over again. Thank you for your patience and help!

[Christian J]

Hey I wasn't sure if this was supposed to go here or in the markup section.

I moved it to General Web Design.

My website - jworld2.sitesled.com, and I think all the other html pages hosted on my server account have unauthorized ads placed on them. If you click the link you can see it. It is the only ad on the site.

Sooner or later most free hosts put ads on their member sites, regardless of earlier promises. That may or may not be the case here (I notice they still claim not inserting ads: http://www.sitesled.com/process/faq/faqman...&toc=faq#q9 ).

You can see the url for wecounthits.com. I went to that site and it is a statcounting site that says it does not put ads on people's sites.

They do seem to be affiliated with your web host in some way, and they do make ads: http://www.wecounthits.com/shop/index.php?...amp;productId=2

It may just be the work of hackers.

I once saw an infected web server, that served ads without the server owner wanting it, but in this case that seems unlikely.

I was also hoping that there would be a way to get rid of the ads without having to upload all of the html files over again.

If your web host adds them automatically it will not help to upload clean versions of the files. Much better to get a proper (paid) web host.

Side-note: you should make smaller images for the thumbnails, rather than using big files like this one on the home page (774KB): http://jworld2.sitesled.com/images/theearth6.jpg

[pandy]

So have you asked your host? In fact, you don't even have to ask, just read their forum.
http://www.sitesled.com/forums/viewforum.p...a85120c39208f01
Or their email.
http://www.sitesled.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=7275

[jworld2]

okay, so apparently sitesled is now putting ads on people's sites. They really should have told people first. And also not put the ads right in the way.

[pandy]

Isn't that what the email was for? The ad on your site doesn't look like a footer though.