Note from Erick: It’s apparently one of the randomly cycled ads. Please note which ads are displayed when the message shows up so we can purge it. We use an inhouse ad system that then pulls in filler ads from tribal fusion when we don’t have a complete stack of in house ads. One of the filler ads is causing the problem, but I can’t tell which one.
Am I the only one that is redirected (using IE) to the below URL when initially logging into RedState?
http://pcsecurityscanner.com/2009/1/en/_freescan.php?nu=77024209
Not cool.
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Just tried it using IE..no problem noted! nt
From ME to You (Diary) Saturday, January 3rd at 1:10PM EST (link)I have experienced it twice in the last copule of days. nt
Steve Maley (Diary) Saturday, January 3rd at 1:18PM EST (link)The blogger formerly known as ‘Vladimir’.
Freudian slip. nt
Steve Maley (Diary) Saturday, January 3rd at 1:19PM EST (link)The blogger formerly known as ‘Vladimir’.
I've seen the same thing a couple of times. I use FF...nt.
NightTwister (Diary) Saturday, January 3rd at 1:41PM EST (link)The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. – Winston Churchill
Hammer, it happened to me once the other day, too.
janis (Diary) Saturday, January 3rd at 1:42PM EST (link)Maybe it’s Tommy Christopher’s last gasp attempt to get into RedState.
heh,
cookcountyconservative (Diary) Saturday, January 3rd at 8:58PM EST (link)I listened to that idiot for about 5 minutes last night. I don’t think he could tell the difference between a spoon and a ladle, much less pull off something like that.
I wonder..
Jason Gillman (Diary) Saturday, January 3rd at 1:48PM EST (link)It is VERY CERTAINLY malicious code.. as you cannot close from the bottom, and must use task manager.
Caution on the ADS allowed on the site maybe Moe?
Yes I encountered a redirect once several days ago
civil truth (Diary) Saturday, January 3rd at 1:58PM EST (link)It happened when RedState was starting to load – and may have happened in conjunction with an inadvertent random mouse click. The program appeared to be scanning my hard drive (or was pretending to), and the program did not close in the usual manner when I attempted to close the window. Can’t remember if closing IE worked or if I had to use a bigger hammer.
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http://www.gmsplace.com/
My Dad's computer got this virus a couple of months ago.
Steve Maley (Diary) Saturday, January 3rd at 2:34PM EST (link)If the window pops open for you, any click – including a click on the normal “close window” box – runs the virus program.
Yes, it cleverly mimics popular anti-virus software, and at one point will even mimic “the blue screen of death”.
And, for the record, my browser is Firefox, and I’ve recently seen the redirect on both my Mac desktop & my Windows Vista laptop. Both times associated with RedState. I safely shut it down (I think) by closing the active browser window.
The blogger formerly known as ‘Vladimir’.
That redirect happened to me yrsterday.....
JadedByPolitics (Diary) Saturday, January 3rd at 2:35PM EST (link)same thing with the “pretend” scanning…..si whats up?
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DON'T GO THERE!!!!
davo119 Saturday, January 3rd at 2:34PM EST (link)I was stuck for several days with continuous page redirection. I was given a copy of Norton Internet Secutity 2009 and a couple of days later it was gone.
Is this it:
http://www.symantec.com/security_response/writeup.jsp?docid=2008-082521-2037-99&tabid=2
Never give in! Never! Never! Never!
Happened to me 3 times already
aesthete (Diary) Saturday, January 3rd at 2:47PM EST (link)Hopefully, it will be disabled, or whatever you guys have to do to stop it from popping up, soon.
The act of defending any of the cardinal virtues has today all the exhilaration of a vice – G.K. Chesterton
My guess
Thrhheggeegwc Jjtkylkfofud (Diary) Saturday, January 3rd at 3:42PM EST (link)Malicious code inside one the ads. Do NOT buy anything from that site that you get redirected to.
It happened on firefox on my mac
GregInFla (Diary) Saturday, January 3rd at 3:49PM EST (link)So I just laughed it off. But it made all firefox windows really small, and opened in a new window, with no firefox menus displayed. I just quite firefox and restarted. I did not know it was from redstate.com at the time, because my home page is actually three firefox tabs: dealmac.com, redstate.com, and jihadwatch.org. I guess redstate.com was the culprit.
– A true evolutionist would let endangered species die off. Think about it.
– The sign outside the courthouse said no signs allowed. So I took it down.
– Atlas Shrugged is now on the non-fiction aisle at Amazon.
It's the Vundo trojan horse
Josh Painter (Diary) Saturday, January 3rd at 4:18PM EST (link)Read all about it:
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1378708
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I got a warning from Norton anti-virus
Beaglescout (Diary) Saturday, January 3rd at 4:35PM EST (link)and it blocked Redstate until I cleared it up. So I never got to see the site.
“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.”
Happend to me on the 1st, I think.
RJD (Diary) Saturday, January 3rd at 8:04PM EST (link)Only that one time, so far. Windows Vista, Firefox 3.0.5.
Opened the page and was redirected along with a pop up ad. Didn’t have time to see anything else on the page.
There have been a huge number of DOS attacks, hacks and infections on Israel-based, pro-Israel web and blog sites.
Kenny Solomon (Diary) Saturday, January 3rd at 8:26PM EST (link)I haven’t had a problem here.
Jihadwatch, Ynet News and by some accounts over 1,000 sites have been hit so far.
When IsraelPundit got hit, they traced the image of the Palestinian flag that was uploaded and found it went to a WordPress blog.
Whatever may have happened here could have been part of that series of attacks.
Hey Erick the redirect I got was just by hitting the link to Redstate....
JadedByPolitics (Diary) Saturday, January 3rd at 9:20PM EST (link)so it was not associated with any of your ads….good luck in finding the pesky little devil and doing away with it. Twitter as well has Direct Messages coming that say look at this blog about you that is screwing around with people’s computers as well!
I am fortunate in having a top tier network guy who has my computer protected to the hilt because its attached to our server here and as such must be like Ft Knox
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all I did was hit refresh on already open FP window...
JLenardDetroit (Diary) Saturday, January 3rd at 9:25PM EST (link)clickonadvertising.cn cookie attempted to hit (immediately followed by the phony scanner site cookie) while redirecting me…. couldn’t see what ads were present, transitioned too fast and I just had time to block the cookies and nuke the window….
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mine went to antivirus.com
Beaglescout (Diary) Monday, January 5th at 7:36AM EST (link)where it tried to install an “antivirus” program.
“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.”
It's happened to me twice using Firefox on PC
Lammo (Diary) Sunday, January 4th at 2:14AM EST (link)If I recall correctly it was when I clicked the link to log in.
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Happened to me twice, it likes to resize my main Firefox window to max size (n/t)
Finrod (Diary) Sunday, January 4th at 3:01PM EST (link).
Let’s get down to brass tacks here. How much for the ape?
Happened to me once.
itrytobenice (Diary) Sunday, January 4th at 9:11PM EST (link)Looked like it was scanning, and I got it shut down (can’t remember how) but it didn’t get alerted by my anti-virus software.
I don’t know if that means I got it shut down in time or if my software is weak.
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It just happened to me again. I got the "page reset"
janis (Diary) Monday, January 5th at 8:09AM EST (link)message with “gotoyourclicks.com” as the redirect.
A correction and more info:
janis (Diary) Monday, January 5th at 8:58AM EST (link)It’s gotoyourclicks.cn 78.46.101.234,80