I’ve been receiving messages from my friends using Blogger.com (blogspot) as their blogging platform. They all have the same but one big issue, the clutter of pop up ads. Indeed, these unwanted ads are annoying both to the visitors and the blog owner. On the part of the visitor, they might be inflicted by malwares, spywares, viruses and other harmful programs due to visiting these sites especially if they don’t have enough security measures such as anti-virus and anti-spyware. On the other hand, on the part of the blogger, it’s a double black-eye. First, he/she might be affected by the previously mentioned PC threats and second, it would result to loss of valuable readers.
I know this is a serious problem that needs to be addressed. It’s no longer a joke. This is the reason why I searched the internet to get at least a close hypothesis regarding the root of this trouble. I opened my private blog written in blogspot so that I would have accessed the resources of blogger.com such as group discussions and support desks. Fortunately, I found this post under the Login Issues of Blogger Help Group.
Here is the complete text of the post of a Blogger Employee:
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Fine bloggers, There has been a decent amount of chatter recently from people who are
concerned about losing access to their blogs due to a malware Terms of
Service violation. While this is admittedly an imperfect system at the
moment, please understand that all of these efforts are in place with
the best of intentions. Malware is a very serious issue and our standards have to err a bit on
the side of caution for the sake of securing our users and our
service. It’s nothing personal we promise.
That being said, and after putting a good amount of thought into the
issue, we think it is only fair to give everyone a chance to clean up
their blogs. So here is the plan that we have come up with:
Step 1: Locate and remove malware from your template
My guess is that many of you folks have either custom templates or
third party gadgets, and the malware is somewhere within that code
that you copy and pasted into your template. -Open up the Html editor from either the Template | Edit Html or
Layout | Edit Html tab. -Select ‘Expand Widgets Templates’ to show all of the code. -Now comes the tricky part of pulling out the nefarious code.
Oftentimes, it is located at the bottom of the page so starting from
the bottom is a good idea. Look for things like <script> and <iframe>
tags that link out to third party URLs, stat counters, as well as
third-party javascript elements. Remove these items from your template
and then make sure to save it afterwards.
Step 2: Submit your cleaned up URL into the appeal form below:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?key=pZHHZdeYKeHgXlmtdMIRfbw&…
Step 3: Within 48 hours we will review your submission and, if it is
free of malware, go ahead and restore your blog. I will post a list of
restored URLs every other day at the following link: http://groups.google.com/group/blogger-help/web/restored-urls-from-ma…
This list is also located within the ‘Resources’ Section of the
Blogger Help Group. If you do not see your link after 48 hours, then you can assume that
the malware was not removed. You may then repeat the process and re-
submit, if you wish. Thanks for hanging in there everyone, -Gatsby
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In can be noted on the post that a lot of malwares are attacking the blogger.com. As stipulated in Step 2, this could have been brought by third party codes (javascript and html codes) that we used to cut and paste on blog widgets. I recommend all of my fellow bloggers in blogger.com to give sufficient attention on this matter. Indeed, I will be sad to see your blog in the deleted lists due to these irritating popup ads.
Please, for the sake of our community in the blogosphere, spread this information.
Again, I sincerely appeal to all of you. If you really care for our blogspot friends, again, let’s spread the word..
Thanks,
Joliber
So nice of you to take some effort about all this pop ups attack, Joliber! I did removed all the 3rd party widgets like site counters, traffic feeds, popular pages and rank widgets. The unwanted pop ups indeed disappeared, hope it will be for good. Don’t worry I’ll help out in spreading the word, especially to those who are still bugged by these pop-ups…I will redirect them here to your site.
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Thanks Ate Ellaine.. All of us must spread the word.. The community that we have built should not be killed by these irresponsible malwares.. I support the blogger.com community and all my friends out there..
so that is where its coming from… I thought my kids downloaded something and this advertisements keeps popping up and its really pissing me off….
Thanks for sharing.
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Yeah, hope this can be resolved the quickly, it’s really making damage in the blogosphere..
so far i’m not affected by this
[but i’m using firefox with adblock, so i may not see this]
could u kindly check my site if there’s a prob.
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I don’t see the pop up ads to your blog Julia.. But i suggest you ask others too..
Hi there Joliber ^__^ Thanks for posting this
I’ll be checking out my blog and post this kind of entry as well 
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Hi Tessa, let’s spread the word to inform the blogspot community..
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that sounds scary! i havent noticed any unusual pop ups in my blog or other blogs I have visited, but I should be alert now and be careful too. thanks for sharing Joliber.
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Yeah, perhaps you don’t have related widgets or those that were attacked by malwares..
Very alarming ha, very well done Joliber. Keep it up.
nhick
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Yes nhick, it’s very alarming indeed..
Great! you provide the solution to everyone! I will let my friends know if they are face the same problem.. Gracias~
Thanks Kang Yong. We have to tell everybody about this..
hmmmm, nice info Joliber,
Thanks Gusher.. Hope this one helps the blogspot community..
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Hi Joliber, thank you for responding on this matter. It is really my concern to take out the pop ups in my blog. I followed the instructions you’ve posted here and I didn’t see any or encoded in my template. The only time I edited my html was when i tried the “Read More” or Expandable Post feature in my blog but that has been deleted already. I also tried deleting my Adsense and some logos I have posted recently. Unfortunately may pop ups pa rin :(… If you’ll visit my site you’ll notice that sometimes may pop ups, sometimes naman wala.
Hello Ate Lorie,
As per Ate Ellaine, she removed ger rank widgets (the pop up ads were consequently disappeared..) I see a rankwidget on your blog on the bottom of left side bar..
Try to remove that and let see what happens..
P.S. Don’t worry about the expandable post “Read More” code.. It doen’t produce the pop up ads..
Let me know if there are still problems..
i hope you supply us more of your useful infos.
kudos to joliber!
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Thanks Rara, I’ll do my best to share as much information as I can.. As long as you guys are there, I will remain in the blogosphere..
I appreciate it Rara..
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Hi, it’s so nice of you to share this info to us fellow bloggers. I was attacked with all of these pop-ups week ago, fortunately I found the problems and had cleaned my blog as well as my pc. So far no pop-ups appearing. I did submit my url in your list. I hope it’s clean. I cannot go online as I’m on vacation but I’m thankful to Scotty’s Princess for taking time leaving a message in my cbox about this link. I really really appreciate your effort. Take care. :]
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Hi twinks, thanks too for dropping by.. Hopefully the blogspot community will be able to kill these malwares..
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stopping by to say hello blog hopping in other words
take care
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Thanks for visiting Michael..
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visit my blog if you still have problems with pop ups. it will help you to fix the problem ok
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It’snice to hear that you took an initiative about this.. This is really a good news in the blogspot community..
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Hi Joliber, I took your advise and i’m not sure kung may pop ups pa rin. So far wala na akong nakikita pero minsan kasi wala e tapos minsan meron. if you’ll visit my blog pls inform me kng may pop ups pa rin. Thanks!
Hi Ate Lorie, your blog has no pop-up ads anymore.. I’m so happy about that..
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hi again Joliber. hope you are enjoying your Sunday.
btw, I notice at the end of each comment, there’s a ‘last blog spot title’–> that’s so cool! How do you do that? is it possible with blogger?? in fact, can I customise the comment window at all in blogger?
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Hello Farah, that what wordpress call “CommentLuv” plugin wherein your last post will be visible..
In blogger? I still don’t know yet but it must be possible since it’s all about scripting..Or this something that must be raised by bloggers to blogger.com.
Comments box in blogger.com can be customized.. COnsider searching about Haloscan..
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thanks! i’ll do this with my blogspot account, i hope i can resolve it asap. ^_^
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You’re welcome.. Hope you can do it immediately..
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Great Post Little Bro…. it would will surely help… Am a victim of such virus, am getting crazy how to remove it for the past 3 days. Am just so thankful to Twinks and Ellaine for being patient to teach me how to remove it. Waaaaaaah, i deleted all my widgets that contains such virus and I’m afraid to get one for it might pop up again…. sigh!(^,^).
By the way, how are you?
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I’m fine ate Bing.. I’m so happy that you were able to remove the widget that caused the virus.. Moving forward, be careful about selecting widgets..
hi joliber. i took your advise and looked for the or sa expanded widget. wala akong nakitang ganun. hindi ko na alam gagawin ko kung papaano maaalis ang mga pop ups.
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Hello Ate Liza, I don’t see them anymore but in case you still see them on your PC just let me know and I’ll try my best to help you..
thanx for the info. i love this feature wordpress has, in fact, a lot that wordpress offers! i will try to check it out for any scripts which could do the same in blogger, though I doubt if there’s any- haven’t seen any blogspot having this feature in their comment box yet.
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Who knows you’ll be the first to make it and be a super star in the blogosphere because of it? I’ll wait for that Farah..
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Great post
I experienced this too and was very glad that a friend of mine informed me after she noticed the messy pop ups. I deleted that third party widget already and my blog seem to be working fine now.
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I’m happy to hear that Precious..
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