Lately I’ve been getting redirects to the virus warming redirect pages. Back button doesn’t work and I’ve had had to exit the browser to get rid of it. Happens on both my Android tablet and phone. Screenshot of browsing history showing address of pages below.
I’m not clicking on any ads on the page, simply being on a SDMB post and reading it leads to the redirects.
Same thing for me. I can’t even go back to get to the page I was on - it just redirects to the offending site over and over again. I have to kill the tab and start over.
Oops. Yeah, I meant kill the tab, not exit the browser. I can usually go back to the page I was reading with no more problems. But this has happened maybe 6 or 7 times in the last two days.
YES. It’s happening several times a day for me on my phone.
Yes. It’s been getting very bad.
Something really needs to be done.
If the redirects are similar to those illustrated on this page then it’s malware. There are instructions there for removing the malware from Android phones and I’m sure there are similar instructions out there for other phones. (NB I haven’t tried this myself so best advice may be to compare different sites for malware removal.)
No, they aren’t similar to those apart from having scary looking virus warnings. That article describes push ads that appear in the notification bar. These redirects only happen when a tab is open on a Dope page, and only in that tab. They never happen if there is no SD tab open. They look just like the fake virus ads that a lot of dodgy sites pop up to try to trick you into downloading malware.
Not even remotely. These are malicious redirects from a page, not from the android system or malicious apps.
Of course I was redirected by hitting this thread.
As was i. But I’ve been getting them for a few days now. It is…not fun.
This something that needs to be addressed by the site administration. Since I got the original hijack I turned on my VPN while I surfed around the site. In 20 minutes the VPN tracked over 400 attempted ad trackers. Ridiculous.
I have had at least 5 hijack attempts today. It’s maddening.
Oh, good. It’s not just me, then. I hope this gets fixed soon.
Ok, it was a good run, but I just got redirected again just like before. Android.
I got hit by the redirect last night for the first time in a few weeks.
I got this several times yesterday.
Thank goodness I’m old school and browse from a heavily protected PC.
If I live to be 1000, I am never going to have brain implants, no matter how “secure” they supposedly are.
Thanks for the heads up. Exploration begins anew.
Just got it again on chrome on android.
Happened just now. Android.
