Reporting the Proboads banners for abuse!

[kas]

In the past some of the ads on this forum has been the kind that break these rules:

• Ads which automatically play audio
  
• Ads that automatically expand to larger than their normal size
  
• Any and all popup ads
  
• Ads which attempt to install software/malware on your computer

According to the Proboards Support Forums you report those by using the CTRL+ALT+R keys all at once on the page that is showing the offending banner ad.

Also take a screenshot using these directions and upload them to imgur.com/ and post the link here. You will need that same image link for your report.

How to take a screenshot of a full screen:

• On your keyboard should be the PrtScn key. If you are on the page with the offending advertisement, click this key.
  
  
  
  
• Now open up your Paint program (Windows has one) and click on new and then paste the image from the clip board and then hit save and save it to your desktop so you can find it easily (or to My Pictures if that is easier).
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Upload the image from your desktop to imgur.com/ or www.imageshack.us/ or tinypic.com/
  

This helps all of us.

Thank you.

- Kas

[kas]

Here is a video on how to do it in both Windows and Macs:

www.howcast.com/videos/273723

[kas]

There have been a lot of untrustworthy banner advertisements so I just want to remind everyone that I do not endorse, nor approve of or have any control over which banner ads are shown and advertised here. It is annoying and I worry about people clicking on them but all I can do is warn you not to do it.

I came across a post where a man is posting about this on this own proboards:

brantkidney.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=gotopost&board=spamedu&thread=210&post=651



and a picture of the links it brought him to for each:

imgur.com/QT3CC.jpg

i.imgur.com/qP8Cd.jpg

and more that were caught I guess before by him?? Not sure:

imgur.com/gTiIL.gif

imgur.com/dncuV.png

imgur.com/fIKJ1.jpg