# SDMB thread took me to a porn site?? ! **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 21, 2004, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-thread-took-me-to-a-porn-site/225522 "2004-01-21T23:39:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![flapcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7993a0/32.png) [@flapcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flapcats)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2004, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-thread-took-me-to-a-porn-site/225522/1 "2004-01-21T23:39:14Z")
The thread titled ‘How come we always kill more of them than they of us?’ (or thereabouts) took me to a site with ‘Hardcore european, Japanese’ movies for sale. I won’t post the link because that’s not allowed, but I KNOW I’ve never been to that site so it’s not Explorer being daft or a history glitch. What’s going on? ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2004, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-thread-took-me-to-a-porn-site/225522/2 "2004-01-21T23:46:06Z")
You might have some variety of browser-hijacking scumware. Try running Adaware and Spybot, after making sure each is fully updated. I tried the thread you idicate, and it worked normally for me. ---
**Author:** ![LordVor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/90ced4/32.png) [@LordVor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LordVor)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2004, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-thread-took-me-to-a-porn-site/225522/3 "2004-01-21T23:50:22Z")
While that’s a possibility QED, the board was down for about 20 minutes around the time of the OP. It may have been somebody hacking the SMDB, and I would like to hear if that’s the case. -lv ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2004, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-thread-took-me-to-a-porn-site/225522/4 "2004-01-21T23:56:11Z")
I got the “Database Error” page sporadically, however when the board was working, it behaved normally. I’m not discounting the hacking theory, but everything worked fine for me, otherwise. In any case, running some anitspyware software can’t hurt. ---
**Author:** ![Nanoda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Nanoda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nanoda)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2004, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-thread-took-me-to-a-porn-site/225522/5 "2004-01-22T00:01:30Z")
If the board was _never_ down, I might believe that, but… 😉 20$ (US even!) says **flapcats** browser’s been locally hijacked. ---
**Author:** ![flapcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7993a0/32.png) [@flapcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flapcats)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2004, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-thread-took-me-to-a-porn-site/225522/6 "2004-01-22T00:01:34Z")
I don’t think it was the thread ([http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=235968](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=235968)) beacuse it’s working now. I’m running adaware 6.181, pc-cillin and zonealarm - adaware is about half way into its scan and has picked up 26 tracking cookies, though I don’t think they can create false links (can they?). They’re gone now. It’s really odd as I’ve not had anything like this happen before. hmmmm. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ccd318/32.png) [@John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Kentzel-Griffin)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2004, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-thread-took-me-to-a-porn-site/225522/7 "2004-01-22T00:10:11Z")
I doubt it was the board. Since this is not a General Question with a factual answer, but a question About This Message Board, I’ll move this to ATMB for you. **DrMatrix** - GQ Moderator ---
**Author:** ![kniz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@kniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kniz)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2004, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-thread-took-me-to-a-porn-site/225522/8 "2004-01-25T23:42:37Z")
😃 [sup] **If you told us what porn site, we could investigate this more thouroughly.** [/sup] ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2004, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-thread-took-me-to-a-porn-site/225522/9 "2004-01-26T01:03:04Z")
I’ve had this happen to me a few times too. When it’s happened, I’ve right-clicked the link that did it, went to properties, and the Web Address listed is actually a porn re-direct. :eek: I just run adaware and that cleans things up. Happy ---
**Author:** ![zoogirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b9bd4f/32.png) [@zoogirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoogirl)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2004, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-thread-took-me-to-a-porn-site/225522/10 "2004-01-26T03:26:34Z")
It’s happened to me twice this afternoon and the only way I can exit is to shut the whole @#$%^! computer off! I’m getting really annoyed. It’s particularly nasty porn, too… very explicit right on the front page. Good thing the kids were out of the room. ---
**Author:** ![Nanoda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Nanoda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nanoda)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2004, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-thread-took-me-to-a-porn-site/225522/11 "2004-01-26T07:01:52Z")
[Adaware](http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/), [Spybot, [url=http://mozilla.org/]Mozilla](http://security.kolla.de/). 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Nanoda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Nanoda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nanoda)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2004, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-thread-took-me-to-a-porn-site/225522/12 "2004-01-26T07:03:15Z")
[Adaware](http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/), [Spybot](http://security.kolla.de/), [Mozilla](http://mozilla.org/), Preview button. :smack: