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ditto i haven't been having any problems until i checked on the page again
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. on the brightside with something so large happening im sure its a fix that will happen sooner then later, in the meantime is there a way to stop the redirection through a plugin or setting of some kind i wonder?
 
calichicken said:
Yes, please let us know! It is still happening
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I just did an internet search -- there is a repeat of last week's malvertising attacks going on, which is what is setting off all the page redirection. It is google ads that are getting taken over. I am going to post two links (if this doesn't get hijacked while I'm doing it), but one way to stop it is supposedly to turn off flash player. I haven't tried it yet.

Meanwhile, it looks as though the redirection could be spreading viruses through the malvertising, but again, I don't know enough about this to say. Apparently the stuff last week was limited -- the viruses only got through to folks running older software.

Here's the links, there's more information in there.

http://gizmodo.com/turn-off-flash-to-avoid-malvertising-attacks-1640832181

https://blog.malwarebytes.org/malve...rk-abused-once-again-in-malvertising-attacks/
 
Garden Peas said:
I just did an internet search -- there is a repeat of last week's malvertising attacks going on, which is what is setting off all the page redirection. It is google ads that are getting taken over. I am going to post two links (if this doesn't get hijacked while I'm doing it), but one way to stop it is supposedly to turn off flash player. I haven't tried it yet.

Meanwhile, it looks as though the redirection could be spreading viruses through the malvertising, but again, I don't know enough about this to say. Apparently the stuff last week was limited -- the viruses only got through to folks running older software.

Here's the links, there's more information in there.

http://gizmodo.com/turn-off-flash-to-avoid-malvertising-attacks-1640832181

https://blog.malwarebytes.org/malve...rk-abused-once-again-in-malvertising-attacks/
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Well, I'm wrong... those articles were from September
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But it seems like it may be the same sort of thing... the Malwarebytes blog post explains the process pretty clearly.
 
I cannot use the BYC app on my iPhone at all due to this. It goes something like this: click on thread, page loads, AD. Back button, click thread again, read 3 words on page, AD. Back button, AD, back button, find thread again, AD. Repeat on endless loop. If I go through my browser instead, it's not nearly as bad. I can at least catch up on something without being interrupted as frequently.

Glad it isn't just me and I'm happy to hear that it's being worked on. :)
 
If you go into the settings on your web browser's firewall, you can tell it to not allow pages to be redirected or to notify you, but then it is a nuisance because there are times you need the pages to change...

Here's an article from January 8th about malvertising that apparently acts like what we've been seeing:

https://blog.malwarebytes.org/malve...ined-total-monthly-traffic-of-1-5bn-visitors/

Apparently something like this is also happening as "twitter spam"

https://blog.malwarebytes.org/fraud-scam/2015/01/fake-cnn-twitter-feeds-spam-weight-loss-links/

The weird thing I'm noticing is that it seems much more intense on certain BYC threads than on others... that's just plain weird.
 

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