Your horrible forum keeps sending me to places I'd rather not go

[Guitar Woman]

NOTICE: IF YOUR COMPUTER IS RUNNING SLOWER THAN USUAL LATELY, IT MAY BE INFECTED WITH ADWARES, MALWARES, OR SPYWARES.

INTERNETSECURITYDELUXE CAN PERFORM A FREE SPYWARE CHECK IMMEDIATELY!

DOWNLOAD INTERNETSECURITYDELUXE NOW!

[MetalMilitia]

Adblock :rolleyes

[Fathom Zero]

Strangely, Opera doesn't give me any ads.

[Guitar Woman]

it's not an ad, I'm actually being redirected to a spam page by the site.

Am I the only one? Does this site hate me THAT MUCH? :(

[Girl Drink Drunk]

I haven't had any problems with that on my pc:)

[MetalMilitia]

You probably have malware on your system. Run an AVG scan.

[Dr. Boogie]

Seriously. I'm on the forums on this computer and my work PC, and neither one has ever redirected me anywhere.

[Kybo Ren]

it's not an ad, I'm actually being redirected to a spam page by the site.

Am I the only one? Does this site hate me THAT MUCH? :(
I also suffer from redirection. This site hates me, but that's okay. If I wanted to be loved I definately wouldn't come to I-MOCKERY.

Not my computer, so I'm off to download internet porn!

[Tadao]

Maybe it's because you download pirated software you little shit. Stop blaming it on the forums.

[Tadao]

That was aimed at GW, porn is just fine by me.

[Guitar Woman]

well, it only does it on this site, and anyone who has the appropriate half of their brain could put two and two together and assume that I-Mock is doing it.

I'll do what MM said and if problems persist I'll just get a new browser

[MetalMilitia]

Firefox 3 + adblock and you'll be fine.

[10,000 Volt Ghost]

That actually happened to me today at home and I have the new firefox. It had a red spam alert.

[Mockery]

If you guys keep experiencing this, please look into what ads are up at the top of the page at the time. Take a screenshot of it if possible. Because if it's happening while you're on the forums, there's only one ad at the top of the page at a time, and it could be some shitty ad that snuck in through Google's Adsense program (my ads default to Google when my primary ad network doesn't have any more ads to serve at the time). If we can narrow it down to what ad contains the redirect, we can make sure it gets eliminated from whoever is serving it.

That being said, I've yet to experience this problem and I'm on this site countless times a day.

[Guitar Woman]

the thing is, it usually redirects me before anything on the page loads, but I'll be sure to screencap it if I can.

[Sethomas]

Yeah, I've had the same thing happen to me exactly per GW's original post. I'm on what I assume is the newest version of FF.

[Kitsa]

I'm on the latest version of firefox and run scans all the time, and it's happened to me once. My window just inexplicably got hijacked to some sort of "WANT ANTI SPYWARE SOFTWARE? OKAY? YOU SAID YES, RIGHT? OKAY! HERE IT COMES!" that actually had a (probably fake) download bar. I couldn't get rid of it even with an end-task. I'll try to screencap if it does it again.

[MarioRPG]

That's odd that it's only happening to some of us. I don't suffer it, I use Adblock like MM.

[liquidstatik]

yuh, i used adblock plus, and this has never happened so idk TRY GETTING ADBLOCK PLUS GW >:

[Colonel Flagg]

My computer just informed me that it protected me from a malicious attempt at accessing my computer from a remote IP address. I can check the address in the log and post it if you think it might help.

[Fathom Zero]

Never happened to me on any browser. :( :)

[Mockery]

I disabled a bunch of ads from a network that might be the culprit, but since this has never happened to me I can't be sure if it will do the trick. Lemme know if any of you experience the problem again, and please try to get a screenshot of the problematic ad if possible.

[Pentegarn]

Worst I have ever experienced on this site is the occasional "10 millionth visiter" pop-up. All I had to do was use the series of adware/spyware removal programs I use and it stopped. Haven't seen the pop up in a couple of years though.

[Guitar Woman]

Rog, you must have gotten rid of whatever was causing this, because it hasn't happened to me since Saturday.

[Zomboid]

Oddly enough, it happens whenever I come into this thread.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v156/Lucifer40/spyware.jpg

And closing that one leads to this one opening up:


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v156/Lucifer40/spyware2.jpg

[AChimp]

You probably want to also check what ad banner is being shown at the top of the page. That message box in the first screenshot is originating from Javascript from a page at pc-on-internet.com (clearly not I-Mockery). The only place that this can really be occurring is in an iframe on the page, which is what I believe the ads are running in at the top of the forums.

It's kind of funny that they've done their page up to look like an actual Windows XP popup but you're running Vista :lol

I bet that it also redirects you if you click on Cancel, too.

Finding out the ad banner should provide enough clues for Rog to remove them from the rotation or complain to the network.

[Zomboid]

I always click cancel or just close the box and it always redirects me. I figure it's just spyware or something already on my computer though.

[Kitsa]

It just happened to me again on another site, different computer, and I barely had time to nab a screencap of the banner ad before getting redirected:

http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn199/kitsa_for_imockery/bannerad.jpg

[Sethomas]

I just had one with the "You are the 1 x 10^19th visitor" things at the top, nothing TOO obnoxious but it was shaking around like crazy AND it was making the Windows XP error noise about every six seconds. What I did for posterity is that I viewed the source code and saved it as a notepad file, in case anyone wants it.

[Mockery]

Thanks for the screenshots Zomboid and Kitsa, I filtered out any ads coming from pc-on-internet.com as that seems to be the offending site. I couldn't find the actual ads anywhere, so I'm assuming they're coming from Google, so I went ahead and put a block on that domain name. Hopefully that'll do the trick. Keep posting screenshots if you guys encounter any other problem ads.

Seth, I think the error noise ad you mentioned came from Google as well, because I couldn't find it through our primary ad networks. Google apparently needs to get their shit together :O

[Fathom Zero]

Having not clicked on anything whatsoever, the site redirected me to this:

http://72.51.42.7/t101915005/h.html

I advise you not to go near it. And if that's not the cagiest thing I've ever seen, I'll eat my hat. Also, it's got rotating ads, so you never see the same one. It wants my email.

Again, it could just be my computer, though.

[liquidstatik]

Having not clicked on anything whatsoever, the site redirected me to this:

http://72.51.42.7/t101915005/h.html

I advise you not to go near it.

You should have said that above the link, not below it. >:

[Fathom Zero]

Well, that was dumb of you.

[Guitar Woman]

well now I wanna know what it is, fuckface

[Fathom Zero]

CLICK IT TODAY!

[Kitsa]

Same thing just happened to me- had this forum in an inactive firefox tab, left for a moment (clicked NOTHING) and came back to find I'd been redirected to some nonsense shit about "do you like rising gas prices yes/no".

[Mockery]

Damn, it's still not happening to me. I need to know exactly what ad is causing it. Still amazes me that big networks allow shady ads like this to slip through. Real professional. :|

[Colonel Flagg]

Ditto here - "Are you fed up with rising gas prices?". Too bad I wasn't fast enough with my screen cap.

[Fathom Zero]

Nevermind, it just happened to me on another site. It's probably just me.

[AChimp]

You fags need to run the anti-spyware programs that they're advertising >:

[Hangie]

I'd brag about having a mac and this never happening to me, but it is probably impossible for that to be the reason.

[MLE]

http://76.74.248.79/u81129100k/h.html DO YOU LIKE RISING GLAS PRICSE CLICK HERE AND TELL US ALL ABOUT IT PLEASE OR WE WILL REDIRECT YOU HAHA JUST KIDDING.

[MLE]

Also, java popups for circuit city.

[Kitsa]

Another page hijack:

http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn199/kitsa_for_imockery/effthesponsor.jpg

[Colonel Flagg]

Yeah, I just got another one, to a cosmetic site.

Is I-Mock trying to tell me something? :eek

[Fathom Zero]

I'd be willing to bet it's not I-Mockery.

[Kitsa]

Sometimes banner ads can be downright funny. On another site, I got "BUY RAMONES TICKETS NOW!!!" Uhhhh....

[Seven Force]

NOTICE: IF YOUR COMPUTER IS RUNNING SLOWER THAN USUAL LATELY, IT MAY BE INFECTED WITH ADWARES, MALWARES, OR SPYWARES.

INTERNETSECURITYDELUXE CAN PERFORM A FREE SPYWARE CHECK IMMEDIATELY!

DOWNLOAD INTERNETSECURITYDELUXE NOW!
STOP DOWNLOADING ILLEGAL SHIT AND IT WONT HAPPEN TO YOU
:\

[liquidstatik]

OR DON'T DOWNLOAD ILLEGAL SHIT ALL STUPIDLIKE

[davinxtk]

am i the only ie user that finds it hilarious that firefox brags about being so much more secure than ie but half of these people complaining are using firefox?


or am i just the only person who still uses ie? :\

[Fathom Zero]

I use Opera :hat

[liquidstatik]

Opera looks cooler but FF has so many addons I couldn't do without. Adblock takes care of all this shit y'all are bitchin 'bout anwyayz.