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Three of us have all tried going onto the forums at SQ; all of us have had Virus Protection go crazy and our IE's froze.

Be careful... I don't know what's going on there, but doesn't seem like anything good.

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From:

tunxeh.livejournal.com

After seeing this, I took a look at the forums and found a message from Zsenya that SQ has started taking Google ads. My suspicion is that one of the ads is your culprit. Since you probably are wary of going to the forums to see the message, here it is:

y'all may have noticed some Google ads popping up on our forums this morning. As much as I hate to do it, this is an experiment to see if we can't get our server costs down a little bit.

There are a number of ways to support the Sugar Quill's operating costs, which are $200/month in order to handle the large amount of data transfer involved in hosting so many forums and such a large story archive. If you are a regular supporter of the Sugar Quill - THANK YOU! It is through kind donations that we are able to keep running and we really appreciate it.

You can read about the different ways on our Support page. Every little bit helps. Our hope is that those Google ads will help reduce this $200 amount.

But please note that the Sugar Quilld does not officially endorse the companies/organizations that appear on the ads.

Thank you for understanding.

Enjoy the site!
Zsenya

From:

author-by-night.livejournal.com

Yeah, but I've been to plenty of sites with google ads, and they don't cause this...

I'm not blaming Zsenya, I just worry someone put a virus on her site. But you could be right.

From:

barbara-the-w.livejournal.com

There's an http//:z.... site that tries to come up. I think that's the culprit. It's loading before the SQ site.

Probably a backdoor virus coming in through an ad link.

From:

tunxeh.livejournal.com

I've been to plenty of sites with google ads, and they don't cause this.

Maybe those other sites have stricter policies about what formats of ads they allow?