# The SDMB is serving up malware again **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [June 21, 2010, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-is-serving-up-malware-again/543949 "2010-06-21T02:40:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![Terry\_Kennedy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c57346/32.png) [@Terry\_Kennedy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terry_Kennedy)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-is-serving-up-malware-again/543949/1 "2010-06-21T02:40:32Z")
I’ve been tolerating the broken ad-serving code that prevents the browser “back” from working some of the time, but this is a **much** more serious problem. On clicking “back” a second time (IE 8), the browser closed except for a single small menu box which said my computer was infected, and that I should run VSCAN7, with only an “Ok” button. Task Manager reported 2 instances of IE running and I killed them both. The particular malware link that was being served was [http://f2f183769.anti](http://f2f183769.anti)\*-\*[Elementor Hosting | This site is private](http://spysoftware.com/stream1/cacnpr/ffnhcqdnhn/fcllaqhnrf.html) (link broken to protect the obtunded). If this is like the last few times, that is an ephemeral link that will vanish in a few hours. Why does this problem keep happening here (and only here)? I am a frequent user and/or contributor to at least another 20 vBulletin-based boards, and have **never** had that problem anywhere but here. “Advice” of the form “so, don’t do that”, like “purchase a subscription” or “switch to some-browser-nobody-ever-heard-of” isn’t going to be listened to, so please save the electrons.\* By the way, when I tried to reproduce the “back doesn’t work” problem to tell you what that URL is, I wasn’t able to duplicate it, but I did get some annoying audio ads. They just go “Ap!” or something like that and cut off, presumably because I navigated off the page they were infesting while they were still loading. If the answer is “don’t let the door hit ya on the way out”, that’s fine - but The Management should be clear about that, and not do the “you’re the only one that ever reported that”, or “we had a problem but we fixed it”, or “provide some impossible information and we’ll look into it”. This is a _big_ site, and while you get ad dollars from the ad-serving companies, they are getting _more_ from the companies that are paying them. So a threat to switch to a different ad-serving company should induce them to look at it from their end. - For those that have access to post stats, you’ll see that I answer questions, not ask them. I doubt as a casual individual user I’m worth much to keep around, but I could go to one of the sites that pays people for their answers. For everyone who makes a stink about this problem, there are probably many more who don’t complain. Edit: I just managed to get the “broken back button” problem to trigger. It is [http://www.tumri](http://www.tumri)\*.\*net/ads/mti/5658?ATL\_C… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sdmb-is-serving-up-malware-again/543949)._