advertisements on blog site

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  grandoldmovies · Member · Dec 8, 2012 at 3:00 pm

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  Advertisements are suddenly appearing on my blog site, both on the blog page and on the back-end pages. I did not sign up for this, nor did I receive any notice from WordPress about placing ads on my site. Is this being done by a WordPress, or has my blog site become infected by an outside source? Has anyone else experience this?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  notawoodpecker · Member · Dec 8, 2012 at 3:01 pm

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  What type of ads are you seeing and where are they located?

  You may have a contaminated browser add-on, toolbar or extension.

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  grandoldmovies · Member · Dec 8, 2012 at 3:14 pm

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  They’re ads for all kinds of products and always appear on the top of the pages (with a disclaimer ‘ad not by this site’). Do you know how I can decontaminate the browser (googlechrome)? thanks!

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  timethief · Member · Dec 8, 2012 at 4:31 pm

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  re: ads not by this site
  Disable all your browser add-ons and then enable them one at a time to locate the culprit add-on so you can uninstall it. Not all of these are easy to unintsall but that one may be.

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  richardbaker06 · Member · Dec 15, 2012 at 6:22 am

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  What type of ads are you seeing and where are they located?

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Dec 15, 2012 at 7:10 am

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  @richardbaker06
  Please remember that these forums are not here to promote your blog: if you have helpful and useful information, then you are welcome to post but repeating a question which another volunteer has asked, and yet another volunteer has given advice about is not very worthwhile.