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Title: INFECTED WEBPAGE CODE - HIJACKS AND REDIRECTS
Post by: starcruiser on January 06, 2010, 03:44:44 PM
This website is infected with a bot that hijacks your browser and redirects to a dating site, what gives Stefan??
Title: Re: INFECTED WEBPAGE CODE - HIJACKS AND REDIRECTS
Post by: powercat on January 06, 2010, 04:06:34 PM
Yes it is completely mad every time I change pages I get another advert, mobile telephones, and gambling websites, we had this problem a while back, I hope the problem gets fixed soon.

cat
Title: Re: INFECTED WEBPAGE CODE - HIJACKS AND REDIRECTS
Post by: darkspeed on January 06, 2010, 04:09:00 PM
I just got this reply from hartiberlin :

Quote from: darkspeed on Today at 09:30:24 PM
Hello, every time i try to load a page it refreshes to an advertisement with a "skip this ad" button.
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Hi,
and what happens if you press skip this ad ?

Its a new advertisement.
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Title: Re: INFECTED WEBPAGE CODE - HIJACKS AND REDIRECTS
Post by: Magluvin on January 06, 2010, 04:43:47 PM
I was getting it too. this time I didnt.  man this ou stuff is freaking me out a bit.
I can understand the lil bubbles on text, but a black jack casino page that wont let me go? I know that isnt Overunity's style.
whacky

Magluvin
Title: Re: INFECTED WEBPAGE CODE - HIJACKS AND REDIRECTS
Post by: Pirate88179 on January 06, 2010, 04:50:05 PM
For what it is worth, I use Firefox with adblocker and I don't see any of this.  Hopefully, I never will.  What browsers are you guys with the problems using?  It may or may not matter, I am curious though.  I think the last time something like this happened was about 2 years ago when I was still using IE.  (It got me too back then) Actually, that is why I switched over as someone here suggested I do so.

Bill
Title: Re: INFECTED WEBPAGE CODE - HIJACKS AND REDIRECTS
Post by: darkspeed on January 06, 2010, 04:57:43 PM
I got this from Stefan

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Okay, I will disable it,
yes, it is a bit annoying, you are right.

How often did you see it ?

Many thanks.

Regards, Stefan.
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Title: Re: INFECTED WEBPAGE CODE - HIJACKS AND REDIRECTS
Post by: Magluvin on January 06, 2010, 05:03:59 PM
I use Firefox and I saw it. I dont know the level of blocking I have set for it.
Mags
Title: Re: INFECTED WEBPAGE CODE - HIJACKS AND REDIRECTS
Post by: jadaro2600 on January 06, 2010, 05:14:52 PM
I use adblocking plugin for firefox; I see no advertisements, on top of that, the tool is useful for blocking unwanted pictures ( such as processor hogging gifs )...  this is probably not constructive for helping Stefan maintain the website.

I would also like to ad that advertising could better be served on a one to one basis, this would mean playing advertising agent ( and would probably be more time consuming ) but it would place a more direct line to specific advertisers.

I'm not sure how much revenue this particular website generates... but I think that having someone to place their AD here personally may benefit the cause and the effect, so to speak.

I had this problem as well, the page redirects endlessly, but i solved it by ADblocking the website source with a wildcard.

If a little more effort  ( on behalf of the companies used to supply pay per click advertising ) were less stringent with their javascript rules, their placements might be statically done, at option, so as to provide linearity in the website, i.e - the advertisements become hard coded into the page, yet still malleable via database manipulation on behalf of the website owner.

This is just me ranting though, personally I can't stand to see an out of place advertisement - something that looks more like the page and it's contents is more likely to generate click-through.

There is most likely a way to manipulate the source advertiser into interpreting a retreival as dynamic when in fact it is not - but this would take some fudging; the fact is, i think they look at load attempts as well.