Site Infection?

[CarolinaBeerGuy]

I’ve been getting random redirects to a site saying my iPhone may be infected when I click on the main board. This doesn’t happen every time, but it’s only happening on my iPhone (iPhone 8 running iOS 11.0.3) using Safari. Anyone else having this problem? I can provide links if needed.

 

[RIrooter09]

It's been happening to me as well. Only on mobile.

 

[DJnVa]

I had a few issues earlier today when I used my laptop--said site was down and sent me to a cached version.

 

[bostonbeerbelly]

Same here on mobile - been happening sporadically the past few days.

 

[DontTauntOrtizMe]

Me too. I have been getting these messages on mobile.

 

[bsj]

I don't get this via the app. Worth trying?

 

[Frito Tankona]

I get them as well

 

[Boston Brawler]

I received a few yesterday when on mobile. Doesn't happen with the app or desktop.

 

[Investor 11]

Same here. always a CloundFront redirection.

 

[InsideTheParker]

It happened to me once today on my laptop, at home. There was a message the gist of which was that it was not my computer, not my network, but originated with the website. It was brief, and next click brought it up.

 

[AlNipper49]

It's probably the server being cranky. I'll reboot.

 

[canderson]

Lots of timeouts this evening, Nip.

 

[CarolinaBeerGuy]

Just happened again. I’m not on Wi-Fi. Screenshot:

 

[SumnerH]

Just happened again. I’m not on Wi-Fi. Screenshot:

That looks like a scammy ad to me.

 

[TFP]

I've been getting that exact thing a lot on mobile. I just close out and re-load and it's fine.

Any way to figure out which ad is doing it? It's quite annoying.

 

[AlNipper49]

I think it is part scammy ad part server. I’ll reboot later

 

[AlNipper49]

I think ti was part a security agent that I had on the server. Changed things around a bit and rebooted. If things happen more than once for you can you report back here?

Thanks all!

 

[TFP]

I think ti was part a security agent that I had on the server. Changed things around a bit and rebooted. If things happen more than once for you can you report back here?

Thanks all!

Just happened to me twice on two different threads.

 

[CarolinaBeerGuy]

Still happening.

 

[SumnerH]

That's definitely an ad trying a phishing attack. Note that the URL is an amateurish phishing attempt: "app1e-secur1ty . com".

 

[Comfortably Lomb]

Same happening here. Frequently too.

 

[notfar]

Happening for me too.

 

[canderson]

Is it feasible to donate enough to have ads removed? I’d gladly help the cause if the ads are messing with everyone.

 

[luckiestman]

I don't get this via the app. Worth trying?

To second this, I don't get any problems with the Tapatalk app.

 

[AlNipper49]

Originally they were hidden for subscribers. About 1% of our traffic is from people logged in so we wanted a way to make the unwashed masses pay. Then we had huge issues with the subscription system and also got a new skin/software where it was more difficult to selectively hide things.

My guess is that google cleans up the bad ads being displayed, if it’s a bad ad we’re not the only one complaining (and I did). If you guys get a bad ad is there a way to identify what the actual ad is?

 

[SumnerH]

Yeah, if you could see what add is at the bottom of the page when it triggers that might help track it down. I just tried spoofing an iphone user-agent and refreshed the main board a few dozen times, but I couldn't get it to happen (I don't have an actual iphone to test with).

 

[Curtis Pride]

I think it's mainly a problem with iOS 11 and Safari. The pop -up may come from a site put a cookie on your phone and then prompts a site redirection. To fix it (mostly):

1. Quit Safari by double-pressing the home button and swiping Safari up. That stops Safari from running in the background.
2. Clear your website history by going to Settings -> Safari -> Clear History and Website Data and tapping "Clear History and Data."

That may solve the problem for now, but because the pop-ups are triggered by a file in the "Website Data" section of iOS I cannot guarantee that the problem will not recur.. Hope this helps.

 

[j44thor]

Same here. always a CloundFront redirection.

I'm getting the Cloudfront redirection on Android 7.0 once per day.
Pop up giving a $100 Amazon gift cert. Easy to get around but a lay person might get stuck.
It only happens on SOSH and only happens once per day.

 

[Jimbodandy]

I'm getting the Cloudfront redirection on Android 7.0 once per day.
Pop up giving a $100 Amazon gift cert. Easy to get around but a lay person might get stuck.
It only happens on SOSH and only happens once per day.

Same.

 

[Couperin47]

There is a posting in the Ridiculously Cute Animals thread that links to the site www.bite.ca. ESET reports:

Time;Scanner;Object type;Object;Threat;Action;User;Information;Hash;First seen here
11/16/2017 9:22:32 AM;HTTP filter;file;http://www.bite.ca;HTML/ScrInject.B trojan;connection terminated;UP\Jeff;Threat was detected upon access to web by the application: C:\Program Files\Pale Moon\palemoon.exe (571638FB5FB0042782409C8BC0977A27B0B5AD5F).;B940B20513E219D81654B6D9B9742E9B940FB794;

That link should be deleted.

 

[hoothehoo]

I think ti was part a security agent that I had on the server. Changed things around a bit and rebooted. If things happen more than once for you can you report back here?

Thanks all!

I just got one of those "congratulations you've won" ones in the BbtL forum.