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Downloadfile.bin requests

  • 09-06-2025 06:38AM
    #1
    machiavellianme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,018 ✭✭✭✭


    For the past few days, I'm being inundated with requests to download a file called "downloadfile.bin" as I scroll through any page on boards.ie. I'm using the Firefox mobile browser and it only happens on this site.

    It doesn't seem to matter where I click on the page and pops up regularly, sometimes twice in 5 seconds, sometimes once a minute. To my knowledge, I'm not clicking on anything that requires a download.

    Can this be explained please and just what is in the file?

    Screenshot_20250608-143229.png

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  • #2
    Spear
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Help & Feedback Category Moderators Posts: 26,556 CMod ✭✭✭✭Spear


    That's not coming from boards.ie, it's one of the ads. Do you have the full URL for the file?



  • #3
    machiavellianme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,018 ✭✭✭✭machiavellianme


    How do I get that? Do I need to download it?

    All I get is the prompt. I don't see any url.

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  • #4
    machiavellianme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,018 ✭✭✭✭machiavellianme


    I reluctantly downloaded it and got this:

    https://onetag-sys.com/invocation/?key=284019b6-bf70-48e5-a0eb-ebd36c3d11f5&ad_type=banner

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  • #5
    Spear
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Help & Feedback Category Moderators Posts: 26,556 CMod ✭✭✭✭Spear


    That's a HTTP 204 response now, so the response has no content. It's most likely a configuration mistake on the ad side, @Boards.ie: Mike will need to block or report it to get it fixed.



  • #6
    Boards.ie: Mike
    Administrators, Boards.ie Employee, Boards Employee 2, Boards Employee 3 Posts: 1,604 ✭✭✭✭✭Boards.ie: Mike


    @Spear thank you for highlighting. I will report this right away.

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  • #7
    Boards.ie: Mike
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    @machiavellianme are you still seeing this pop up? Our third party ad host has removed one of their demand partners from the ad stack to review the issue.

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