Warnning! Dont use Adsterra! Malware infected network

[Skorpionn]

I placed Adsterra.com banner for my mobile visitors in my tube website.

It was very surprising since their CPM was much higher than exoclick, But they will redirect visitors randomly to their malware infected and fake antivirus page. They randomly open popunder, redirect or promote to install software for your visitors.

Running their ads will kill your website.


here are some of other members that have reported this

https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/someone-made-29000-from-adsterra.1312337/post-14154995https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/adsterra-review-and-other-suggestions.1312292/post-14190814https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/adsterra-review-and-other-suggestions.1312292/post-14156565https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/what-do-you-guys-think-about-adsterra.1261190/post-13568326


https://searchsecurity.techtarget.c...cted-to-malvertising-campaign-despite-denials

https://www.reddit.com/r/PPC/comments/e0yak6

https://www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comments/66ljnf

If you want to use them think twice as you will get banned by google and major web browsers, You will lose most of your visitors, Hopefully I found it soon before some major damage be done to my website

 

[GavinnN]

Hoo really !! FCK
I need to replace my ads by immediately.

 

[petr pytlík]

Thanks

 

[Kukoolcrivat]

Adsterra its sucks

 

[Aiden L]

Yeah adsterra is a shit network, just search adsterra malware and you will see a plethora of articles and reports experiencing the same thing you did.
Hope you find a adequate replacement soon.

 

[AdsterraNetwork]

Hey, everybody!

That’s some harsh words, but honest feedback, thank you for that

As for the compilation of negative experiences (most of which were resolved, but anyway), we are here to say this.

We value our clients and partners, so the Redirect and Malware issues are always our #1 priorities.

In recent years we implemented three-level traffic protection and are constantly working on improving our security system. But while we are improving the defense, frauds will always find new ways to get past it, that’s just how it works.

But we can do better with your help! If you contact us in any way about this kind of issues, then we can single out the frauds and malware-advertisers faster and more efficiently.

Just send us your login/email and we’ll see what we can do!

 

[Skorpionn]

Hey, everybody!

That’s some harsh words, but honest feedback, thank you for that

As for the compilation of negative experiences (most of which were resolved, but anyway), we are here to say this.

We value our clients and partners, so the Redirect and Malware issues are always our #1 priorities.

In recent years we implemented three-level traffic protection and are constantly working on improving our security system. But while we are improving the defense, frauds will always find new ways to get past it, that’s just how it works.

But we can do better with your help! If you contact us in any way about this kind of issues, then we can single out the frauds and malware-advertisers faster and more efficiently.

Just send us your login/email and we’ll see what we can do!

dude every single advertising code in your website is sending visitors to malware websites. You are part of this scam and you are fully aware of it. Your network is being use for spreading botnets, viruses, ransomware ....

Stop acting like you dont know whats going on.

every single click on mobile device will be promoted in downloading a virus or a fake tech support scam or installing randsomware on computer. There is no clean ad on your whole network. You dont have 1 clean advertiser.

 

[ziko12345]

dude every single advertising code in your website is sending visitors to malware websites. You are part of this scam and you are fully aware of it. Your network is being use for spreading botnets, viruses, ransomware ....

Stop acting like you dont know whats going on.

every single click on mobile device will be promoted in downloading a virus or a fake tech support scam or installing randsomware on computer. There is no clean ad on your whole network. You dont have 1 clean advertiser.

Yeah thats how they make money.

 

[justanotherblogger]

Hey, everybody!

That’s some harsh words, but honest feedback, thank you for that

As for the compilation of negative experiences (most of which were resolved, but anyway), we are here to say this.

We value our clients and partners, so the Redirect and Malware issues are always our #1 priorities.

In recent years we implemented three-level traffic protection and are constantly working on improving our security system. But while we are improving the defense, frauds will always find new ways to get past it, that’s just how it works.

But we can do better with your help! If you contact us in any way about this kind of issues, then we can single out the frauds and malware-advertisers faster and more efficiently.

Just send us your login/email and we’ll see what we can do!

@Skorpionn

I want everyone here to know that I personally took time out of my day and signed up for this account on this forum JUST to tell you that this EXACT (and I mean EXACT) thing happened to me within 24 hours of putting Adsterra ads on my WP site.

They suck you in via fake reviews like this: https://www.trustpilot.com/review/adsterra.com

Or blog articles like this: https://animeeverything.online/the-highest-paying-ad-network-for-anime-blogs-adsterra-review/

And then you are amazed but the higher CPM.

Then, the next day Google sends you an email like this saying all your Google Ads are stopped because you have malware on your site. If I had enough money to sue this company, I would.



I sent their customer support a message immediately and they've been giving me the run around for 2 weeks (literally) saying their dev team is looking into it.

This is 100% a scam, don't trust them. They'll say whatever they can to try to keep their malware codes on your site for as long as possible.

DONT TRUST ADSTERRA

 

[tazmxx]

Hello,

I registered just to say that everything in this thread is true. I signed up for Adsterra, created a banner, put the code on my site and wanted to check it. First surprise is that the ad server returned HTTP 403 error. Weird. Thought it's a temporary issue but turns out they meticuously block all VPN and Tor access (I normally connect using a VPN). Okay, fair enough. Checked through a residental connection and it didn't even show the banner, just instantly redirected me to a malware website every time. I had to shut it down after 5 minutes.

Conclusion: this is a malware distribution network, not an ad network. Stay away at all costs.

NB their ad serving code is garbage. It's not asynchonous and stalls the entire site until the ad is loaded, but I guess it's not a concern when you don't really care about serving ads.
NB2 they block Tor and VPN access most likely to prevent security researchers from obtaining the malware samples and analyzing them rather than to avoid fraudulent traffic.

 

[destroi]

Hello,

I registered just to say that everything in this thread is true. I signed up for Adsterra, created a banner, put the code on my site and wanted to check it. First surprise is that the ad server returned HTTP 403 error. Weird. Thought it's a temporary issue but turns out they meticuously block all VPN and Tor access (I normally connect using a VPN). Okay, fair enough. Checked through a residental connection and it didn't even show the banner, just instantly redirected me to a malware website every time. I had to shut it down after 5 minutes.

Conclusion: this is a malware distribution network, not an ad network. Stay away at all costs.

NB their ad serving code is garbage. It's not asynchonous and stalls the entire site until the ad is loaded, but I guess it's not a concern when you don't really care about serving ads.
NB2 they block Tor and VPN access most likely to prevent security researchers from obtaining the malware samples and analyzing them rather than to avoid fraudulent traffic.

higher CPM but malware adverts, stay away from that shit network. I have seen many people getting website blacklisted on google because of adsterra.

 

[Reyzkr22]

Adsterra always in my heart

 

[ariel1324]

Use it well.! Social bars only. no POPUPS

 

[Ominee]

Use it well.! Social bars only. no POPUPS
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What's your traffic source, have been struggling to get traffic to my site, have even used paid traffic, please help a brother

 

[ratarussa]

I just started with adsterra and I only put banners and even so it redirects to other websites that is when I enter from my ip everything is normal but if I enter from another you realize

 

[borson]

I agree, I used Adsterra once and their ads are very shady.

 

[Doctor Sleep]

Hey, everybody!

That’s some harsh words, but honest feedback, thank you for that

As for the compilation of negative experiences (most of which were resolved, but anyway), we are here to say this.

We value our clients and partners, so the Redirect and Malware issues are always our #1 priorities.

In recent years we implemented three-level traffic protection and are constantly working on improving our security system. But while we are improving the defense, frauds will always find new ways to get past it, that’s just how it works.

But we can do better with your help! If you contact us in any way about this kind of issues, then we can single out the frauds and malware-advertisers faster and more efficiently.

Just send us your login/email and we’ll see what we can do!

Why are you lying?
Do you have a little shame?
Me and also my friend got this same problem 5 years ago, before we stopped working with you.

 

[Conjecting]

Thanks for the heads up!

 

[olegnaxd]

I'm interested in this thread, I want to see the new adsterra message saying they know nothing about this situation!

*I'm goin to get pop corn*

 

[Kevinpro]

Yes, I also agree with your post. In 2021 I used this Adsterra network, but I didn't know what was happening with my blog and how I got $ $ $$$ without clicking. One person contacted me about my blog, and he told me that when I open your blog, there is automatically opened one page filled with the virus; please remove these small ads banners. I have removed those shitty ads. Then I again move to Adsense, and I get good revenue than adsterra network.

I thought that adsterra was better than Adsense, but I was wrong.