Maleware Warning: Do not use Trafficbroker
 

To warn all fellow webmasters: A couple of day ago I installed IM ads and Pop Under ads from Trafficbroker on 5 of my wordpress blogs and today I received an email from Google that my websites are being blocked because of maleware.:mad:

What happened when Google visited this site?

Of the 5 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 2 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 2011-08-23, and the last time suspicious content was found on this site was on 2011-08-23.

Malicious software includes 2 trojan(s). Successful infection resulted in an average of 9 new process(es) on the target machine.

Malicious software is hosted on 2 domain(s), including kennymccormick3.in/, m29m.in/.

2 domain(s) appear to be functioning as intermediaries for distributing malware to visitors of this site, including trafficbroker.com/, m29m.in/.


Please bump this thread and let as many people as you can so they wont suffer like me

I had the same shit with black label ads one time, sucks.

Maleware?

Is that some kind of homosexual computer virus?

Yes, and those were my highest traffic blogs :mad:

Maleware pulled.

Google is pretty fast at fixing it once you get the offending code off and submit for review through webmaster tools. :2 cents:

If ad networks allow the use of third party ads, this unfortunately will happen from time to time.

Trafficbroker got hot with this a few months back as well I believe.

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dis sucks dude.. i was going to use traffic-broker but i will avoid it now..

anyway, did they pay you?

I have already submitted it but I am more worried about future listing of those blogs on Google........will they be able to get their rank back? or will it have a permanent effect on SEO of those blogs?

You should only take iframes and such from advertisers you trust and have a track record with. Traffic brokering 101...

I got this message on August 6 via email:
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Dear publisher,

Trafficbroker.com is experiencing a massive DDOS / hacking attempts in the past few days.

Unfortunately , due to the high scale of the attack, we prefer to recommend you to remove TB ad codes for the time being until we will fully take control of the situation and update you.
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but My sites were infected two times (june+august) on this summer by TB. stay away

Agreed David. At Black Label Ads we run absolutely everything we receive through our Trust and Safety department and we specifically look for anything suspicious (like the problem described above). When we are the ones hosting the ads we are 99.9999% right, but if it is a third party served ad they absolutely can slip something in unbeknownst to us at some point after launch. It's definitely unfortunate. Any time we catch a violator engaged in this type of behavior we give them the immediate boot from the network and ban them from returning. People try all the time, but a fraction of one percent do make it through. :(

Just thought I'd share. We work hard everyday to make this a non-issue. :2 cents:

I'll ping you via ICQ this afternoon if you don't mind. I want to find out specifically what happened in your case.

Thanks,
-Chi.

:1orglaugh:thumbsup

Thanks for the heads up, really appreciate that one.

yea man you are right. Trafficbroker is mentioned here many times, so I thought it must be a good ad network :(

if you need new network for popunders, go with pro players, ts will take care of you

shit happens... juicy ads has an ad that was doing some lame shit too

Thanks, I needed that. Sorry about your eye though. :winkwink:

Was this the "Radio Ads" issue?
Pretty sure I pulled that ad off the network a few days ago.

Just curious, was it a banner ad? As far as I know juicy ad don't have popunder or IM

They will be fine once it gets fixed. :2 cents:

That fact that traffic broker emailed people suggesting that they pull traffic broker ads for now suggests that TB is a stand up company who will take care of it.

Hi all,

As adultwebmestar mentioned, TrafficBroker experienced a massive DDOS and several hacking attempts on August 6. As a result we have sent out e-mails to all of our publishers to remove all TrafficBroker.com ads until further notice. Furthermore, we have postponed all new registrations and no new accounts are being approved and allowed in the system.

Since then we have been taking ample steps towards preventing this from happening in the future. We have been and still are undergoing massive system updates aimed at preventing this exact type of situation. As you can imagine we could have patched things up quickly and asked you to put the ads back again. We haven't done that.
We understand that you rely on the loyalty of your bookmarkers and we, in turn, rely on your loyalty. We want to do our best to gain and keep that loyalty and for the past month that meant that we had to take a hard hit revenue wise. It wasn't cheap and it wasn't easy to turn down publishers and advertisers alike and we are investing a lot in securing the system.

As the people from black label have mentioned also, it is impossible to prevent this 100% of the times and we have had the misfortune of falling into the 0.1% of those situations when an ill-intended person managed to slip malware past our noses. That person will never be allowed to use TrafficBroker again and for the rest who might try we are implementing these new measures.

For the webmasters who have been using TrafficBroker.com ads since our announcement on Aug 6. We believe that we have the good fortune to be working with seasoned publishers who have the ability to decide for themselves what risks are acceptable for them. We have issued our recommendation and asked everybody to take the ads down, but TrafficBroker pays very well so I can understand why for some webmasters the risks outweighed the benefits. We do not and cannot control their actions. However, we will be paying for all traffic sent to us in this period.

We are still committing all our resources towards a resolution to this problem and believe me, we will be the first to let all our publishers know when to put the ads back up.

@TB Adriana

I don't like the static of Trafficbroker because it does not give us information about impression/hits a website gets, so it makes it look shady.

It is very easy to claim to be #1 Adult Ad Network but it is very difficult to be one.

They told everyone to pull ads 20 days ago.
You come complaining now?

Hardly shady with an advanced warning dont you think? If you dont like them dont use them..

Either not everyone got/read the emails or they chose to ignore them. There's a couple of sites I've seen since yesterday that are flagged the same.

This can happen with most of brokers...