An advertiser has installed a script into our code to spoof that you have a malware problem. You don’t. Your computer is in no danger. We’ll find the script and kill it.
We are on top of the issue. It will be resolved.
Thank you for your patience.
An advertiser has installed a script into our code to spoof that you have a malware problem. You don’t. Your computer is in no danger. We’ll find the script and kill it.
We are on top of the issue. It will be resolved.
Thank you for your patience.
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Hey folks, want to protect yourself from “scripts”? Then use noscript from noscript.net. It’s what I use and it makes my web viewing experience better.
Endeavor to Persevere
And if everyone uses ad blocker your iOTW reading experience will be no more.
Your choice.
From the good guys—–>
Clicking on the ad or calling the # is a bad idea. They use multiple entry and exit windows to lock the user on that page and make the window difficult to close, which further deceives the user into thinking they have malware. They don’t. So long as users don’t click on the “ad” or call the phone # all is typically fine especially if they have an AV program installed.
Thanks being on top of this. It’s never happened here before. I thought I picked something up from another site. CRAZY how that stuff leeches on.
Let’s go back to no ads and an edit feature.
We can have no ads.
No site either.
Hey Fur. Those thingees that jump in and send me to the app/game store just started up again tonight. Is this what you’re talking about??
I’m on an iPhone so I don’t use any blocking except StartPage, which I’ve always used. ???
Thanks Fur for letting us know! I was afraid I accidentally clicked on something bad when I wasn’t looking. 🙂 Seems to be OK now.
I temporarily solved the problem by opening a second IE window.
I have nothing against the ads except that those full-page pop-ups are annoying. Can work around anything else.
Oops. Spoke too soon. Snuck in there again! Says I’m a winner and wants me to click on something. No! I won’t! 😉
I don’t like that you can’t click out of it. It freezes everything, and then the voice starts telling you to call that number… or else! You have to close your browser. There’s nothing else you can do.
back button, or esc back button.
ugh. Chrome sucks with this. Using Safari now and not seeing anything weird.
Nope, the pop ups will be on Safari, hunting some MJA very soon… 🙂
I have SPYBOT, Windows Defender, and Malwarebytes, My anti virus is AVAST.
No problems.
What Cate said applies to me.
So far so good. Regular ads, not the hijacky ones.
..Is hijacky an adverb? If it wasn’t, it is now.
I had the IT guys on full lockdown this afternoon!
On Chrome it seemed like your PC was permanently FUBAR
I want you guys to succeed so I eschew the ad blocker. But it’s only out of love, trust me.
Is this about that Chromium Browser? (Not Chrome but a fake.) Malwarebytes Anti Malware just ripped out 154 PUPs of that mess out of my PC. Have no idea how I got it. (I’m clean. No pr0n.) And Flash Player users on FF need to update right now.
A 1955 picture of Eleanor with long armpit hair just became my screen-saver. Now I know I’m in Hell, for sure. 👿
Hey, I got that same photo downloaded. WTF?
Is that Fala between her legs?
If it’s not malware then it must be a “legitimate” advertisement. If so, what makes these scum think that someone will actually do any business with them when they destroy everyone’s browsing experience? These people should be flogged publicly.
No sir, that’s not Fala…that’s Eleanor’s ‘malwear.’ 👿
I’m behind a couple heavy duty firewalls (after losing my C-drive to a web attack), and the settings are mostly made globally; it’s damn hard to obtain separate settings for different websites.
So some of the ads are likely being blocked on my end. And because of that, I try to donate to iOTWreport on a monthly basis. I hope others who don’t see the ads are doing likewise, to insure the future of this great website.
TY for reminding me.
Unruly has been unbelievably unbelievable.
The man is a total mensch. (No, I’m not Jewish.)
I use Ad Blocker, but I turn it off for iotw. I only use it on sites where the ads are obnoxiously intensive. Other than that, I get a kick out of the adware crap…
“WARNING! WE FOUND MALWARE.exe on your computer! Click here to have it removed…”
Ha!.. I’ve been running Linux since 2003.
Never had a problem with the text based browser called Lynx. It was first made in 1992 and has been a great tool. Easy on the eyes, no images.
Well…it’s still there. I just got spammed. Android phone
Kinda like the Braille browser, right?
Kill the script? I suggest killing the advertiser. Visiting has been a bittersweet journey as of late.
We’re getting there. The people we need to consult with are in California
This happened to me a couple of times recently while browsing IOTWR. All I do is bring up Task Manager, select the troublemaker task, and click “End task”. Problem solved.
Until the next occurrence, anyway…
🙂
So what does Fala have – “falwear”?
😉
This has been popping up at other websites. It must be some kind of recent exploit. No, you can’t close the webpage. Task manager is the way to go.
And no, adblock doesn’t prevent this one.
That’s cool….nobody’s leaving
Once you find the advertiser who is doing this, I would hope they will be banned from your site. I think this sort of thing will ultimately cost more than the ad revenue is worth, by driving viewers away.
IMHO, that is.
I don’t think people are understanding what this is all about.
iOTWreport does not make one dime on these ads. This is a hacking of the site. This is illegal activity. This was inserted into our code illegally and maliciously.
We lose money, big money, every time this happens.
We lose traffic (understandably) which effects our good advertisers, and we pay through the ass to have the problem fixed.
It pains me to think that people feel I’m putting this crap on the site to turn a buck.
The opposite is true.
I pay to get it off the site.
This is an ongoing battle, one that is almost daily, to keep these types of ads off the site.
Another thing I don’t think people understand is that GOOGLE does not care one whit about this problem because THEY DO make money on this.
The only ads that EVER are supposed to be on the site are Lanista (the banner, side bar and footer ad) and Ad Supply (2 pop UNDERS per day per IP address, and the floater ad in the lower right, and the ad you’ll see when you access comments.)
That’s it.
Every time you see any other type of ad it’s because the site has been attacked and I have to take hours, sometimes days, following up on it.
I’m at the end of my rope, frankly.
OK, that clarifies things. When you referred to a script that had been inserted by some bad advertisers, I thought you meant that one of your advertisers had slipped something into one of their ads that they weren’t supposed to. What it really meant is that some hackers somehow inserted a script illegally on your site. Got it now.
🙂
wow… i have never thought it was anything else but illegal action. and if anybody that comes here thinks otherwise….fuck them.
your truth, integrity, and insight are above reproach…..along with your fellow contributor.
these hackers need to go to the top of the 100 list (1,000)
google is a communist plot to take over the world….i never (yes, never is a big word) but I never use google…..my search engine is duckduckgo.com…..they don’t track you
The buttholes who pull this crap ought to be forced to listen to Ono’s Revolution #9 24×7 for the rest of their misbegotten nasty lives.
Not that it does you much good, BFH, but you have my sympathy.
Many thanks!
I don’t getz interwebz … and Jill don’t let me read the telephone or watch the newspaper …
Don’t you worry yore purty little plugged head about a thing, darlin’.
I don’t mind Revolution #9 because it’s varied, eerie and kind of interesting. The one that’ll make hardened criminals squeal for mercy is, “Don’t Worry, Kyoko, Mummy’s Only Looking For A Hand In The Snow”.
YouTube it… if you dare!
OK, I can see that. I think it is painfully awful, but de gustibus non est disputandum.
If you were the bad guy (heaven forbid!), you’d get that 1968 super hit Yummy Yummy Yummy (I’ve Got Love in my Tummy) recorded by Ohio Express. 24×7. Forever.
Heh. I use Linux. I have no idea what such a script might encounter when it shows up on my machine.
I do know it makes no progress. I’m good with that.
I hope you resolved it by killing the advertiser. Who has that much free time on their hands?
That would be “hijackly.”
just don’t kill them right off…..days/weeks of excrutiating torture seems to be fitting, first
…and we’re just the people who could do that too!
Your efforts are much appreciated, Fur.
I think I read they are in Cali. I have a blow torch and a pair of pliers.
I clicked on all the ads in celebration.
No “pipe-hittin’ nigga”?
I could definitely go Medieval on their asses.
Who are the a holes behind this attack? Give us a name, I will never support them.
It has not been resolved. There are still malicious outbounds happening.
Lucianne and the Weasel disagree with me, but this is happening to all the “right wing” sites, including The Peoples Cube. for some reason Drudge is immune. I suspect he is wealthy enough to keep it from happening by hiring top notch IT.
It is not happening on other sites that use the same advertisers you use.
Another issue related to this is an inserted script that causes a memory hole rendering the site useless over time. That seems to be resolved at the moment.
I can stroll over to Huffinglue or the Dirty Kossacks with no issues.
Crap, as I am typing this, the memory hole started, interrupting my ability to type this post.
Signing off before it is lost.
It was a company called appnexus, delivered through another called pubmatic.
This is also what is so malicious. They weave through various chains to make it difficult to find the culprit.
It took us nearly 24 hours.
I do want to say that it was Ad Supply who helped us.
Those guys are fantastic.
They had no reason whatsoever to listen to my cryin’, because they had nothing to do with it.
Shout out to ADAM at Ad Supply.
This guy is a mental superman and did us a real favor, a favor requested by MIKE at Ad Supply.
They saved us.
The real conspiracy (disparity is the proper word) is that lefty sites do not rely so much on traditional ad revenue to subsist. They seem to be funded by some behind the scenes angel.
So, right-wing sites, like ours, become more vulnerable to living or dying by their ad revenue. We have an exploitable vulnerability.
The other thing is, when some right-wing angel happens to surface to shower dough, they go to the least talented, the least compelling, the least interesting middle-of -the-road milquetoast nothing burgers to fund.
Could have been worse.
Walmart or the Post Office may have gotten wind of recent Fur rants…
As always…don’t ban me! 🙂
GREAT. THANKS to AdSupply
[ did I really say that? ]
Now who’s responsible for third party bullshit adobe flash updater??
Laura Ingraham??
I can’t stand java and flash.
You can update and go to another site and something won’t work and they say you don’t have the latest version of flash or java.
I JUST FRIGGIN UPDATEDDDDDDDDDDD!!!!!!!
To whom might you be referring?
Salem Communications (home of HotAir.com and Twitchy.com), and RedState come to mind.