Ebay link snafu in forums

[Green Machine]

Does anyone else have a problem getting ebay links in posts to work? I use IE7 and have The latest version of Firefox.

When someone puts a link for something on Ebay in a thread for us to look at, it takes me to:

http://ads.shoppingads.com/pagead/l...977QQitemZ120399635977QQptZUSQ5fCarsQ5fTrucks

any ideas?

 

[98CobraStarLSC]

that link took me 2 a white gen II mark viii for sale on ebay..

So no problem here i guess.

 

[luxuryrules]

Hey it's that white Mark VIII from gloversville NY!

In all likelihood your hosts file has been hijacked. Scan your PC with Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware, Spyware Terminator, and whatever antivirus you have.

Then, edit the Hosts file in C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc by right clicking and Open With and pick Notepad. Delete all the entries at the bottom except for the 127.0.0.1 localhost one (the first entry). Save it, and you should be good to go.

 

[unity]

That "ads" insert pisses me off, it can mess some things up. Its a forum thing, just not sure why its there.

 

[kustomizingkid]

Ebay links give me quirky issues from time to time...

 

[turn_on68]

Ebay links give me quirky issues from time to time...

Anytime I copy a link from an eBay listing and paste it in here, it never works. This forum seems to cut off some of the end of the link?

 

[Frogman]

Cutting off some of the link, I think, is by design. That way, the forums don't show a link that could be 1/2 a page long.

And Green, I'm with Cobrastar. Link took me to the fleabay listing as well.

 

[kustomizingkid]

If you copy the link and chop the name down it works....

 

[Russo]

It's just a referral link to make a few cents for the guys who run the site.

 

[luxuryrules]

I've hit this site from, literally, dozens of machines, every conceivable browser, and several different OSes. Never had an ebay link take me anywhere except ebay.

Referral link makes sense, but I would be interested to know why it only hijack's Green's browser and not any of mine.. or Frog's... or CobraStar's. Joey, what's the story?

 

[Green Machine]

I ran a total system scan with Kaspersky, and another with ad aware. According to them im clean as a whistle. I also edited my host file.
Still, when i mouse over or click on any ebay link in the forums, i get the ads/shoppingads.com blah blah..... it does not take me to Ebay. its just ebay URL's. any other links posted work fine. i just dont know.