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Thats no good. I'm running Chrome, but not seeing it - but it more than likely comes from an advertisement that has it included - which are geotargeted to your country. What's your country Brain? I will follow this up with our ad networks.

i just got this too.... i'm from USA.

I'm from the USA too. Houston, TX.

i also get it.

I've not seen it in videosift, but I found this thread by googling 'statctr' after getting the big red malware warning from several different sites, each time citing statctr.com.

I'm getting it as well, been popping up randomly the past few days.

Doesn't appear for me, but looking up "statcntr" on Google gives me several forum posts of people wondering about the same thing on other sites.

I'm also getting it, shockingly it seems to be justified. Whenever I load a new videosift page, it transfers me to a "computer security" website that tells me my computer needs to be scanned and then automatically downloads something called setup_2006-52.exe (thankfully I have a mac).

What the hell?

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Well, here's what I know:

I've contacted our ad networks to see if they had any info about it - neither claim any knowledge and say it's not part of their inventory.

I've used my VPN to become US-based and tried about 40 reloads with Chrome- but can't make it happen.

StatCntr.com seems to be triggering on BoingBoing and TweetMeme as well:
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=statcntr.com

Still looking into it- if anybody gets it and manages to snag the source code that is around it- we'd love to have a look.

Thanks

Yeah, I've reloaded videosift about 100 times and I can't get it to happen again. I only saw it that one day. If I ever see it again I'll track it down.

I don't know if this is related or not, but about 8 out of 10 pages that I open on VS will not load all of the way. They'll just hang there and I have to press the stop button before the page will respond to any mouse clicks.

I've noticed that it tends to happen on pages containing some new Flash-type ads that I haven't seen before.

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I don't think that's related. I get that sometimes too. Ad companies- and even our own, non-ad content - use Content Delivery Networks that replicate things like images, flash files and scripts across a network of servers around the globe- with the goal of directing you to the content that is geographically closest to your location. Sometimes those CDN servers have hiccups or down time.

We use a CDN for our images, CSS files and scripts at static1.videosift.com. Advertisers use something similar. Can you tell what content it's stuck on by looking at the status bar at the bottom of the browser?>> ^rougy:
I don't know if this is related or not, but about 8 out of 10 pages that I open on VS will not load all of the way. They'll just hang there and I have to press the stop button before the page will respond to any mouse clicks.
I've noticed that it tends to happen on pages containing some new Flash-type ads that I haven't seen before.

>> ^dag:
I don't think that's related. I get that sometimes too. Ad companies- and even our own, non-ad content - use Content Delivery Networks that replicate things like images, flash files and scripts across a network of servers around the globe- with the goal of directing you to the content that is geographically closest to your location. Sometimes those CDN servers have hiccups or down time.
We use a CDN for our images, CSS files and scripts at static1.videosift.com. Advertisers use something similar. Can you tell what content it's stuck on by looking at the status bar at the bottom of the browser?>> ^rougy:
I don't know if this is related or not, but about 8 out of 10 pages that I open on VS will not load all of the way. They'll just hang there and I have to press the stop button before the page will respond to any mouse clicks.
I've noticed that it tends to happen on pages containing some new Flash-type ads that I haven't seen before.



Thanks for the feedback.

I'm using Opera now, so I can't see which element is hanging up, but I'll play around with FF and see if anything shows up.

Well...of course the minute I mention it, it stops happening.

Found the element/origin panel in Opera, so I'll keep an eye out.