Website security issue - Your_mortgage_payments.rar

[Phumfeinz]

Just had a file called Your_mortgage_payments.rar (It's a 4.7kb file) download automatically after clicking on one of the threads in the main forum, the Transfer Speculation Summer thread. Had a google and it seems like it's been a problem the last few days for various other forums, and seems to manifest itself in the adverts. Anyone else had this happen yet? I'm on Windows 7, using Chrome browser.

[Phumfeinz]

Just happened again, took a screenshot:

[Phumfeinz]

It's definitely linked to the Starlet Building advert, Has just happened three more times and every page had the same advert. Other adverts are fine.

[limpid]

I'll move this to the Site Issues forum.

Have you tried hovering over the little box in the top right of the advert? That usually gives you some options.

Unfortunately I can't really do much about this. The last few times it's occurred the ad was being injected outside of VillaTalk and was only occurring to users on a particular mobile network. Even if it is from a VT ad partner, by the time I've tracked down which network is sending this and got them to remove it, the advert is likely to already be fixed. Sorry for the inconvenience but this is the downside of advertising paying the bills.