Unwanted ads showing up

  • Resolved asadmahmud

    (@asadmahmud)


    7 years, 8 months ago

    On my Website funmag.uk a lot of spam ads are showing up all the time. I removed all sort of ads code from the site but the problem persists. It does not even let the reader read the article. its damaging my site badly. help to get rid of them. tried many spam and malware scanner plugins but to no avail. please help

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  • Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    This may be a plugin or theme conflict. Please attempt to disable all plugins, and use one of the default (Twenty*) themes. If the problem goes away, enable them one by one to identify the source of your troubles.

    If that doesn’t fix the issue, you may be hacked.

    Take a deep breath and carefully follow this guide. When you’re done, you may want to implement some (if not all) of the recommended security measures.

    If you’re unable to clean your site(s) successfully, there are reputable organizations that can clean your sites for you. Sucuri and Wordfence are a couple.

    Hacked is probably the most likely issue however, one other issue I experienced a while ago was a rogue browser extension. It inserted ads into pages from within the browser.

    Try viewing the site from another PC or browser – do the ads still show up? If so – you’ve been hacked – if not, then the problem is with your browser – it has a dodgy extension: https://www.howtogeek.com/213096/how-do-you-find-chrome-extensions-that-inject-ads-into-web-pages/

    Thread Starter asadmahmud

    (@asadmahmud)

    There was a script which i used to display horoscope that was causing the problem. Apparently it was showing horoscope but in fact it was causing the ads ti display.Resolved

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