Intrusive adds

[Daren Todd]

There have been a couple scammer adds popping up, taking up the whole screen and resembling malware.

 

[Mr. K]

Thanks for heads up! Will get these looked after.

 

[Daren Todd]

Thanks for heads up! Will get these looked after.

Thank you, they kept taking over the screen and pretty much hijacking the site

 

[pokey1416]

Happening here too. Everything from Xfinity to Walmart. Have to close OTT and reopen. Yikes!

 

[lynnmor]

Happening here too. Everything from Xfinity to Walmart. Have to close OTT and reopen. Yikes!

Whenever my browser has an update I lose the ad blocking, closing and reopening fixes that. I use FireFox and Ghostery.

 

[chim]

Ingsperday.space keeps popping up and I have to bail out to get rid of it

 

[DaveFromMi]

Looks dangerous.

 

[chim]

Looks dangerous.
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Yep Got that one also. So far I believe all of them have been on my Motorola cell phone.

 

[ShootinBlanks]

Here too. Using Chrome on iPhone for this site isn’t an option currently. Not nearly as bad using Safari.

 

[The Evil Twin]

Still getting hammered with it on mobile. Desktop seems ok. I can't get past viewing threads, much less replying.

 

[Trimley]

@The Evil Twin

Get the UBlock Origin add-on for your browser. I use it and see zero Ads or Pop-Up BS anywhere on the web. I use it on my phone, tablet and pc.

 

[The Evil Twin]

@The Evil Twin

Get the UBlock Origin add-on for your browser. I use it and see zero Ads or Pop-Up BS anywhere on the web. I use it on my phone, tablet and pc.

It's not that. It's URL redirect warnings. Probably a bit of malicious code in the forum. I know for a fact it's not my phones. Both give the warning, and it is only this domain that it happens on.

 

[Trimley]

It's not that. It's URL redirect warnings. Probably a bit of malicious code in the forum. I know for a fact it's not my phones. Both give the warning, and it is only this domain that it happens on.

Thats odd. I've got no re-directs since joining the forum on any of my devices or PC.

I have had several times where the server was slow, but that type of bottle-necking can be coming from my side as well.

 

[The Evil Twin]

Thats odd. I've got no re-directs since joining the forum on any of my devices or PC.

I have had several times where the server was slow, but that type of bottle-necking can be coming from my side as well.

It is weird. Very. At first, I thought I contacted a virus. Didn't find anything. Then, it happened on another phone. It is random, and not every time I'm on the forum. It also only jappens with the mobile view. Not with desktop view on either device.

 

[mikester]

Get yourself a firewall appliance with a transparent SSL proxy. Block those ads at the firewall using blacklists and they never get downloaded. Your internet will be faster and no ads in your browser or "apps".

I've been doing that since my hughesnet days when my internet was restricted with a 300MB download limit Fair Access Policy. At the time I discovered half my internet network traffic was due to SPAM and ad servers.

Write a letter to your congressman demanding that internet companies be held liable for the content being delivered on their services. The number one source of virus and malware and scammers on the internet is google because they get paid to deliver malware from scammers. Google, facebook etc all profit from crime because they get paid by scammers ripping people off.

 

[The Evil Twin]

They aren't ads. Traffic is being redirected from the forum IP. I've already traced the packets past the forum host. It's not internal to my network.

 

[mikester]

They aren't ads. Traffic is being redirected from the forum IP. I've already traced the packets past the forum host. It's not internal to my network.

If this problem is on your mobile your device has probably been hijacked. I hope you don't do any banking on your device.

FYI I've lately been seeing a lot of spammers on my website coming in through cellular IP addresses. This means those devices have been compromised and are being used/controlled through malware. Great idea, infect mobile devices because they are always on and users are actively blocked by cell phone vendors from seeing or controlling what their devices are doing on the network.

 

[The Evil Twin]

If this problem is on your mobile your device has probably been hijacked. I hope you don't do any banking on your device.

FYI I've lately been seeing a lot of spammers on my website coming in through cellular IP addresses. This means those devices have been compromised and are being used/controlled through malware. Great idea, infect mobile devices because they are always on and users are actively blocked by cell phone vendors from seeing or controlling what their devices are doing on the network.

Nope, definitely not malware on my devices. Im pretty darn well protected. I manage my own, and my company managed the other. Work phone only gets used for work related stuff (except double checking the redirect traffic from this site, and other random testing). I don't surf the web with it.
Hasn't happened in a couple days now.

 

[Daren Todd]

Nope, definitely not malware on my devices. Im pretty darn well protected. I manage my own, and my company managed the other. Work phone only gets used for work related stuff (except double checking the redirect traffic from this site, and other random testing). I don't surf the web with it.
Hasn't happened in a couple days now.

This was the only website that I was having the issue with as well with the McAfee and AT&T adds popping up.

Hence why I started the thread.

 

[The Evil Twin]

This was the only website that I was having the issue with as well with the McAfee and AT&T adds popping up.

Hence why I started the thread.

I noticed it at the same time you started it. Are you still having issues?