NS just redirected me to spam

Troy.

Troy.

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So, I tried to go to this link from My Threads (https://www.newschoolers.com/forum/thread/807452/Marker-Kingpin-). Briefly loaded the thread, then sent me to this website, which made hella dialogs and I had to force quit Chrome to get out of it. Is that on my computer, or somehow on NS's end?

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It might be on your end.. I have a similar thing going on on this computer where if I don't have adblock enabled on NS then it keeps wanting to redirect me to other sites or refreshing the page. I've done all sorts of scans and what not and can't find anything, but I'd assume more people would be complaining of it if it wasn't me. plus it's been going on for a long time (haven't checked if it's still happening recently though)
 
13391523:VinnieF said:
It might be on your end.. I have a similar thing going on on this computer where if I don't have adblock enabled on NS then it keeps wanting to redirect me to other sites or refreshing the page. I've done all sorts of scans and what not and can't find anything, but I'd assume more people would be complaining of it if it wasn't me. plus it's been going on for a long time (haven't checked if it's still happening recently though)
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Huh... thats really weird.
 
topic:Troy. said:
So, I tried to go to this link from My Threads (https://www.newschoolers.com/forum/thread/807452/Marker-Kingpin-). Briefly loaded the thread, then sent me to this website, which made hella dialogs and I had to force quit Chrome to get out of it. Is that on my computer, or somehow on NS's end?

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Literally the exact same thing happened to me. The NS homepage was the only tab I had open, and it lead to the exact same site with no escape beside force quit.
 
13392813:Troy. said:
ITS STILL HAPPENING. DOUG IM SCARED.
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We're here to help!

If anyone sees it please try to get screen grabs, as well as remember what you saw before it happened / what page you were on.
 
13393022:Mr.Bishop said:
We're here to help!

If anyone sees it please try to get screen grabs, as well as remember what you saw before it happened / what page you were on.
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I just got this when going into post what's on your mind. MAKE IT STOP

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13393022:Mr.Bishop said:
We're here to help!

If anyone sees it please try to get screen grabs, as well as remember what you saw before it happened / what page you were on.
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it's been happening on both my laptops too, but I turned on adblock and it doesn't happen anymore if that helps.
 
13393156:nutz. said:
it's been happening on both my laptops too, but I turned on adblock and it doesn't happen anymore if that helps.
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Possibly one of the advertisers put something sneaky in one of their ads?
 
13393151:.Rybak. said:
like this.

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There's lots of things that do tracking, those are all the advertising systems, 3rd party data solutions and various RTB market tools we use. Its actually pretty nutty how much tracking is out there if you actually look at what is going on under the hood.

13393162:Troy. said:
Possibly one of the advertisers put something sneaky in one of their ads?
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Its not one of the direct advertisers, this has been tracked down to be seeming to come from the Google Ad Exchange. Its actually an internet wide problem, just particularly badly affecting us right now.

The biggest thing you guys could get for us is look for what ad displays right before this happens. That will give us a clue.
 
13393490:STAUSS said:
happening to me too. it happens when i click an NS link from facebook.
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This for me too. Happened like two days ago when I clicked on a link from NS on Facebook to watch a video. And just now happened again. It's one of those spam things that makes you not able to exit until you press okay on whatever the little pop up box says. Sorry, not good description. But will try to screenshot if it happens again.
 
13394302:twoodwardo said:
This for me too. Happened like two days ago when I clicked on a link from NS on Facebook to watch a video. And just now happened again. It's one of those spam things that makes you not able to exit until you press okay on whatever the little pop up box says. Sorry, not good description. But will try to screenshot if it happens again.
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Any chance you saw the ad that popped up right before it happened? Did the page start to load and then it pulled you away?
 
13394331:Mr.Bishop said:
Any chance you saw the ad that popped up right before it happened? Did the page start to load and then it pulled you away?
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This is usually what happens, the page partially loads then it goes to the spam. I've been clicking on NS FB links for the past 10 minutes and it hasn't done anything. IT always happens when i'm not expecting it so i never see the ad
 
yeah I got a really bad one the other day, had to restart my computer (macfag). This plus the snus ads really sucks. I don't want to see a huge chew ad right on the splash page. Really? talk about tacky.
 
13394411:Krotch said:
This is usually what happens, the page partially loads then it goes to the spam. I've been clicking on NS FB links for the past 10 minutes and it hasn't done anything. IT always happens when i'm not expecting it so i never see the ad
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People are suspecting that there's a random ad within the google ad exchange that is causing this, its happening elsewhere on the internet too so everyone is trying to track it down.
 
13394445:BarakaAllahuFika said:
This plus the snus ads really sucks. I don't want to see a huge chew ad right on the splash page. Really? talk about tacky.
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This shit ain't free. Newschoolers has to keep the lights on to make really, really awesome projects, and to keep this site running. General Snus is currently doing that. If you don't want to see General, then buy out their ad space.
 
I've been redirected to multiple phishing and malware sites. S/O to my anti-virus. You da real MVP.

I'll get screenies n stuff next time it happens.
 
13394674:LightSyde said:
I've been redirected to multiple phishing and malware sites. S/O to my anti-virus. You da real MVP.

I'll get screenies n stuff next time it happens.
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Yeah the biggest thing we need is for someone to try and take a glimpse of the ad that runs (if any) right before it happens.
 
13395369:Mr.Bishop said:
Yeah the biggest thing we need is for someone to try and take a glimpse of the ad that runs (if any) right before it happens.
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The problem is, you never see the NS page, it just goes straight to the redirected site, so finding out which ad does it is pretty much impossible (and I'm guessing that's why this is taking so long to track down across the web as well).
 
I didn't get any screenies of the actual website (due to me not disabling my antivirus), but I did find that it directs you through a couple of website before the final one.

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Website details (above) sites in the redirect (below)​

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13395537:LightSyde said:
It's a website issue. It can happen with Windows, Mac, a distribution of Linux, practically anything.
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Ok that's what I figured since it's a problem with google ads.

i just have only seen anything from mac.
 
I used google's search query (because it works better than the default ns one) and I clicked on a newschoolers link and was taken to another site other than newschoolers. Add problem? Eh, maybe, but probably not. Check proxies. That's all I've got. I've dealt with infections, but nothing quite like this.

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Ok I think i'm starting to figure it out now. Nothing popped up but when I scrolled all the way down this was the ad.

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It's says adchoice when you go over the flag to see what ad provider is displaying it.

Also, these were the ads at the top of the same page.

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13394331:Mr.Bishop said:
Any chance you saw the ad that popped up right before it happened? Did the page start to load and then it pulled you away?
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Alright just had it happen again! This time it really didn't want to go away either. Just typed in newschoolers, it was doing the loading thing in the website bar thing then went straight to this.

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Had to click on the okay thing a few times and try to exit out fast enough before it popped up again. Anyone actually have a virus on their computer now? Really don't know much about viruses and want to make sure I don't have one. Any safe ways to check, I'm on a macbook?
 
13397899:twoodwardo said:
Alright just had it happen again! This time it really didn't want to go away either. Just typed in newschoolers, it was doing the loading thing in the website bar thing then went straight to this.

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Had to click on the okay thing a few times and try to exit out fast enough before it popped up again. Anyone actually have a virus on their computer now? Really don't know much about viruses and want to make sure I don't have one. Any safe ways to check, I'm on a macbook?
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I know it's too late but DO NOTA click on anything on the page. Force quit safari/chrome onve it happens.
 
13397932:.Rybak. said:
I know it's too late but DO NOTA click on anything on the page. Force quit safari/chrome onve it happens.
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Yeah I figured it wasn't good..but didn't know what else to do. I quite Safari like 4 times, restarted my computer and turned it off..and then back on again and it still kept coming back. Is there something else I can do to get it to go away for real without clicking on it?
 
13397944:twoodwardo said:
Yeah I figured it wasn't good..but didn't know what else to do. I quite Safari like 4 times, restarted my computer and turned it off..and then back on again and it still kept coming back. Is there something else I can do to get it to go away for real without clicking on it?
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Are you force quitting? Press command-option-esc and a menu will come up to quit unresponsive programs.

it hasnt happened to me yet since the first time so i dont know what to tell ya.
 
13398562:LightSyde said:
Forreal. It's happening more and more. Clicked on Alerts and bam.

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I pressed the login button and came to this.... it's getting old now. I couldnt cancel out of it so I had to log out and log back in on my computer..
 
13398562:LightSyde said:
Forreal. It's happening more and more. Clicked on Alerts and bam.

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13398581:.frenchy said:
I pressed the login button and came to this.... it's getting old now. I couldnt cancel out of it so I had to log out and log back in on my computer..
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I hate to say it, but turn on adblock.

ever since I turned on adblock, I haven't been having this problem...

alternatively, changing your region may work too (i.e. making the computer believe you're accessing newschoolers in canada rather than the u.s.) seeing as I'd only have the problem when I have my unblocker set to the u.s.
 
So when I had to re sign in I accidentally clicked on "save password" instead of "not for this site" and it redirected me to this.

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this is all 3 messages that came up.

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god damn this shit is getting annoying, more spyware/phishing sites than if i were to go to tpb. i'm too lazy to install adblock. fix pls
 
13393490:STAUSS said:
happening to me too. it happens when i click an NS link from facebook.
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same happening to me. going to put adblock back on and hope that works, and wait until this all blows over. this has been crazy
 
Ok, we nuked the google network - tell us if you see it again. We'll re-launch them once they fix this.
 
Yup just got one after clicking on a facebook link. If I go to my browser history, it looks like it directed through three websites:

Broadinf.com,

gomoes.org (not directly to this, but to this long urlhttp://gomoes.org/f/?

t=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5zeXN0ZW1hbGVydHoubmV0L21hYy1hbGVydC5odG1sP3RyYWZmaWNfc291cmNlPTI4NTg%3D),

and then to systemalertz.net

DONT CLICK ON THESE LINKS UNLESS YOU ACTUALLY KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING.
 
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