If you get hit by malware on the SDMB

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Hi

I have had the redirect to a porn site twice now, a few weeks apart. Happened while reading the SDMB on my ipad, scrolling through thread titles. Not sure which forum though. I think it was IMHO, but frankly I was so taken aback (the first time it happened I was supervising my daughter tidying her room and didn’t want her to see the screen!) I didn’t note which forum.

Only part of the screen I was touching was the far left, if that helps any.

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Here’s something I’ve been running into for a while:

While browsing a forum, I’ll click on a thread, read it, then hit my back button. Nothing happens.
When I look at the previous page dropdown, it’s filled with one address 20 or 30 times, as though I went that particular address repeatedly.

the address is http://ad.doubleclick.net/N622/adj/stra

Is this malware on the Dope, on me, or is it some part of the ad system that the Dope has and just goes haywire on occasion?

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Yeah, it’s some sort of malfunction.

Some think it’s an intentional hijack of the back button rather than some miscoding or other error on someone’s part somewhere that causes this but we can’t tell for sure.

Sorry that this happened to you.

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There have been a lot of people complaining about surprise porn redirects while using iOS on a wide variety of websites. Just google ‘iPad porn redirects’ and you’ll see. It’s not just on Straightdope. I haven’t seen any solutions yet though and I’m not sure Apple is aware yet in any meaningful way.

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Any report yet on if this suspected hijack is related to the other hijack I reported where the atlassolutions malware will go out every 5-10 minutes and connect to 10-15 other sites when a browser is open?

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I just tried to perform a search and got the following Google Chrome malware warning:

I’m running Chrome (obviously) on Windows 7. Location is UK.

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I have reported your issue. Anyone else seen this?

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Yup, same here. Location currently The Netherlands.

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I got a warning from Google Chrome today about that, once this evening.

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It’s apparently a hack at Netseer and has nothing to do with the Straight Dope.

http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_22515730/malware-warning-citing-netseer-blocks-google-chrome-users

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Got a “StraightDope is running a survey” pop-up and followed it partway thru (with a rarely used e-mail address) till it started asking questions about my checking account. Time 12:22PM EST, Date 2/22/2013. Location is Bloomfield, NJ.

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For about 2 weeks now, when I’m in Cafe Society a security waring pops up but it’s not from my computer, it’s from a website and won’t let me close it

It says Warning! Microsoft Security Essentials has detected the followng:
(then it lists various trojans, malware, ect) then it says “you must click here”
I never do, I close out the screen

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This is using a HTC One V Android Cellphone:

For about two weeks now, when I try to browse the dope, about 30% of the time when I enter a thread I automatically get redirected to porn sites and app downloads. Two links I managed to save:

http://cdn.mcextjmp.com/feed/out/1960_l_1_1984805993_5243cbc3c37e9

DO NOT FOLLOW THESE LINKS.

I’m pretty sure these are from the banner ads you run in threads. I hope the URLS can assist in finding the culprit.

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What ads are visible when this occurs? Who is the advertiser?

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As the redirects are almost instantaneous, it’s hard to see the banners. I’ll try and get a better look next time.

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Several times recently when reading the SDMB on an iPhone, I’ve been redirected to a particular game in the app store. “Empire: Four Kingdoms” by Goodgame Studios. The redirect happens when I’m sitting looking at a page, definitely not the result of tapping on something.

If I switch back to Safari, there’s a banner visible at the top for the same game. I captured the banner link, which hopefully will help identify the culprit:

http://mob.tictacti.com/dynamic.player?adka=1008&offer_id=48097&subid=6ZEgbiFJlWpWa0R_0T2-sjUxdAmD2k75JZ61PBtyZh-yrJRZDve4CKbqDWw8SBEBfptU6nCD9ET_VwXLeR8n8psfFQr6rPghqk3qEdSEYIFGxiFC4jvSIY1aI2C5zROQuZtS6-NdoPo2orGfI0Wml9FqSFaAiKzntI-Lg9xMqmbq4CB7n0yfZBx0q9JOtOA0n3lgdhiSyio2UFLqo10ZvrDTR3ub9AHAaftEBxiiT2siJdo-FCMBx26cz7Kk6sa_nO4O_prqdS_Zkoq7NaCZ_KFtSHD1eCTGrKLnDMjXauQF9qwRc09pwIzwMGkl9oSUH6-ZGL-7fjtZmGVBXtXQnOISzEqNaE5_IMdX8ejIx98qh-4Ro3WpcURNMBZN77iyWrxK33DCBSd1ndqbhqT-

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The redirecting ads for android phones are still active. I’ve been unable to capture the ad that did it, but it tried to send me to http://lovelinks.us/gray/mobo/m

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Reported.

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Sun Times getting all classy on me now. Only happens on SDMB, only from the main forums page. Broken Link broken (I Think…)

http://www.aliexpress.com/ premium/ sex-toys.html?src=nb&af=nb_292732&tp1=65039787&cn={site}&isdl=y&alpsm=true

added: got redirected on submission of this too.

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I’m pretty sure that’s not supposed to be there. I’ll let the folks above me know about it.