These constant videos are not letting me read the post

What are you talking about?

I'm getting annoyed at all the advertisements of this site.

What adverts? I only see one per page, which is of different Stardock games.

Adblock?

I get no videos on any of Galactic Civilizations III website except for the one that has the trailer??  There are banners of advertisements but no videos and they are not interfering at all with me on any computer I've used.

Sounds like you have some virus/spamware installed that tries to make you 'watch' videos and 'upgrade' the player. This site has no video ads at all.

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What? There's only the few ads in-between the forum posts for Elemental and Sins.

I would suggest you go to Control Panel> Uninstall a program (assuming you have windows 7) and uninstall any tooolbars and programs that you think are spamware. If you are not sure and don't want to uninstall stuff that you might need, ask a friend that might know or take it to a shop. I would also invest in a good antivirus such as avast or avira or whatever and update it and let it full scan your PC for viruses. If all this fails you might need to format your PC and reinstall windows. If you don't know how to do it, ask somebody who will! Or even pay for it. 

It might be painful, but later on you'll thank yourself as all the spam probably make you curse at your PC now!

Definitely something wrong here, I have disabled adblock, still no videos, same ads. I loaded in IE11, with no add-ons whatsoever and not logged in, and no videos, same ads. I've also loaded this up in both Safari and chrome on my iPad and no video ads. I'd agree with the others, you have some type of malware running on your PC. First rule... don't trust the big names in virus scanners, in my opinion both McAfee and Norton ARE malware themselves.

I have had trouble with "adware" and "browser hijackers" ever since I got my latest PC, which came with Windows 8. I contacted the supplier (Symantec) of my internet security program (Norton 360) and was told that these are not really viruses by definition, although they can exhibit characteristics of viruses. In my case, I encountered severe performance issues. They suggested that I try "Malwarebytes" from www.malwarebytes.org and include it as another layer of protection. There is a limited free version that Symantec recommended and a priced full version. They also advised me not to let it schedule automatic scans (it will interfere with virus scanners and severely impact PC performance), but to run the scans manually when not otherwise using the computer. I have been working with it for a few weeks now and have had considerable, but not complete, success getting rid of many adware and browser hijackers, and am continuing to work with it. I started out very tentatively, fearful that Malwarebytes might suggest something as adware that I needed.  So far, this has not happened to me. I also have deleted all of the cookies that my browser (Firefox) knew had been put on my computer and started a list Firefox supports for sites I trust to install cookies, and told Firefox to not allow any other cookies. I imagine I will be stuck doing this for some time, but the success I have had is encouraging.

I had similar issue recently too.

The Adware program makes the popups look like they are from the website your on, but they are not!

But the rest of us don't get any popups

The only ads I've ever encountered here are the ones for Stardock products in between posts (not animated).  What kinds of ads are you seeing?  If it's anything to do with naked people or double penetration, I don't thing it's Stardock.  This is a pretty wholesome company as far as I can tell and I don't think they would stand for anything like that.

The ads for games and stuff are annoying, but the comercials are worse. You also have these games that all you have to do is play to win. Lets not forget about my Macafee telling me that the site I'm going to to upgrade my player is bad I would like my computer to stop doing that. I also don't understand why sites can't use windows media player instead of having me download a player every where I go.

Uh, that is the problem in general... unfortunately the flash player from adobe has been breached many times and there are not so reputable sites out there having download a player that is a virus version of the player... A simple google search will lead you to some of these sites

http://forums.cnet.com/7723-6132_102-501780/adobe-flash-player-virus/

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/protect/forum/mse-protect_scanning/adobe-flash-player-virus/a76ceab1-46ac-4a4d-9b39-177ed605f73f

Whenever I encounter a site that says I need to update a particular player, I go directly to that players website and don't trust any links given by the other websites (even ones I trust). It is a general habit of mine when exploring the web.

Good luck removing any virus / malware you have on your computer...

Edit: I'm only assuming that it is a flash-player virus, it could be something else entirely but I do wish you luck in removing the unwanted software.

Strange.  I'm using Firefox on Win 8.1 with the Adblock filter and have never seen any videos on this site.

I must have the adblocker off how do I turn it on.

I've used Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Firefox on this site (without the ad blocker) and still do not see any videos of any kind using any of these browsers on the forums. I suspect you have some adware on your computer that needs to be removed.

The only ads we run on our forums are simple image banners for our own products, which link to our own sites, like this:

No flash, no videos, no whack-a-mole games. If you are seeing any of those, and particularly if they are telling you to update flash at some random website that your virus scanner blocks, you most very likely have malware on your machine as others have noted. An ad blocker will not fix this. You need to get that malware off.

Blocking the ads isnt the solution

The solution is WHY are they there.

You should at the bare minimum run a Spybot S&D and a full and deep virus scan. I suspect the level of infection cause the CDC to quarantine everythign within 50 miles.

If you still can't find something, then the virus is DEEP in your system. You ill have to save off all your userfiles and nuke the OS from orbit via a format.

I'm trying malware, spybot, and adware blocker lets see what will happen thanks for your advice. If anyone has any other advice please specify. The reason I stopped putting this stuff on my system is because a software developer I know told me the problem with my computer is this. She also read a suggestion to do this off the internet I guess this means she's wrong. I haven't seen videos yet even though I just finished.

In response to the comment the problem is not on the forums. I jbiw that even though it sometimes appear to be that doesn't mean it is, but by posting this I know for sure it is not Stardock. Thanks for your advice I'm implementing it. Gope it works.

Yeah. You should be careful what you put on your computer. The general rule of thumb is, no amount of internet security will protect you if you make a habit of downloading programs from porn sites. A lot of this nasty stuff have many different ways of getting bundled with free software, even on websites that were once reputable (some websites that offer a lot of free software now bundle a whole bunch of unwanted stuff with stuff people want now).

Other helpful advice is: You should not trust emails from banks asking for your account information (I would bet money they are from someone else). Same for bank emails saying there is a problem with your account and were "kind enough" to include a link where to go to fix things (hint: its not the bank's website the links goes to). You should never buy stuff from spam email (Its hard to believe that there are still people who think the spammers are actually willing to sell you stuff, instead of stealing your credit card number and using it for all its worth). You should often check where links go if you don't know if you can trust them (you should be able to hover the cursor, or mouse pointer, over the link to have the actual address show up somewhere on your screen).

There are many nice people on the internet. Unfortunately, the few not nice people are tricky and have ways of getting tools that let them do things that was not possible a many decades ago, on a scale that was not possible many decades ago.

I use a gift card to but things over the internet. I did in 2010 get an email where this African had to get rid of 7 million dollars right away I decided not to give them my bank account number so they could transfer the money. The advice I have been getting seems to work, but if people have other ideas I want to hear them. I know at one time you did not have to read the install information. Now you do. What happen to the idiot proof system windows used to be.

If memory serves, some software (probably Malwarebytes and Spybot) has one issue between: Spybot modifies your host file, to create blocks on harmful links, while Malwarebytes AntiMalware consider that file to be altered and "fixes" it.

Other than that, all I can recommend is to try complete scan with everything you got, from Microsoft Security Essentials to those things other people mentioned.

Another thing to remember, quite often, security programs may not mix well (keyword, "may"). Some security programs put hooks into the operating system. Any two such security programs can, and usually will, cause severe performance penalties if installed together. And some such security programs require special procedures to uninstall them completely.

Different security programs check for different things. Such as: Norton and McAfee check for true Viruses, Trojans, etc. Malwarebytes checkes for adware, browser hijackers, etc. But Norton 360 and Malwarebytes can not co-exist on your PC for long, due to the performance penalties that build up over a few days. (In this case, I have discovered that merely uninstalling Malwarebytes is enough to recoup the lost performance.)

My experience is from Norton 360 and Malwarebytes, but I am sure others can relate experiences with other combinations.