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.
streetwise_IT
Zach Oldham
Neil Stevens
Michael Becker
Aaron Gardner
Leon Wolf
JadedByPolitics
Dan McLaughlin
Just tried it using IE..no problem noted! nt
From ME to You Saturday, January 3rd at 1:10PM EST (link)I have experienced it twice in the last copule of days. nt
Vladimir Saturday, January 3rd at 1:18PM EST (link)There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is generally adopted. - Arthur Schopenhauer
Freudian slip. nt
Vladimir Saturday, January 3rd at 1:19PM EST (link)There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is generally adopted. - Arthur Schopenhauer
I've seen the same thing a couple of times. I use FF...nt.
NightTwister Saturday, January 3rd at 1:41PM EST (link)Get Connected in Colorado…Colorado Political Analysis: 2010
Hammer, it happened to me once the other day, too.
janis Saturday, January 3rd at 1:42PM EST (link)Maybe it’s Tommy Christopher’s last gasp attempt to get into RedState.
heh,
cookcountyconservative 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 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 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.
And Rightly So!
My Dad's computer got this virus a couple of months ago.
Vladimir 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.
There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is generally adopted. - Arthur Schopenhauer
That redirect happened to me yrsterday.....
JadedByPolitics Saturday, January 3rd at 2:35PM EST (link)same thing with the “pretend” scanning…..si whats up?
Whoever has his enemy at his mercy &
does not destroy him is his own enemy
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 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 whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected.”
-G. K. Chesterton
“To be ‘cured’ against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”
-C.S. Lewis
My guess
George Claghorn 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.
“Victory comes, though we know not when. We must be happy warriors until the end.
For those of you who struggle with what goes on, who see retreat and capitulation, and who feel like not just your political opponents, but those who hold dear all those things you hold as blasphemous — be cheerful. Be happy. Victory is already yours.
You must just have the courage to not get discouraged and have the will to fight on.” – Erick Erickson at RightOnline
It happened on firefox on my mac
GregInFla 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. Anyone care to change sides?
Support Marco Rubio for US Senate.
It's the Vundo trojan horse
Josh Painter Saturday, January 3rd at 4:18PM EST (link)Read all about it:
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1378708
“An armed society is a polite society” - Robert A. Heinlein, “Beyond This Horizon” (1942)
I got a warning from Norton anti-virus
Beaglescout 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 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 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.
Kenny Solomon
DC Works For Us
http://www.dcworksforus.com
A South Florida-based patriots organization.
“The framers of our Constitution knew that the government should never have a monopoly on force, that’s why they articulated our God given right to self defense and ensured the right to keep and bear arms was written in our Bill of Rights. Let’s not forget, George Washington didn’t use his right to free speech to defeat the British, he shot them.”……………………. ‘Captain Dave’ Funk, Cand. IA-3
Hey Erick the redirect I got was just by hitting the link to Redstate....
JadedByPolitics 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
Whoever has his enemy at his mercy &
does not destroy him is his own enemy
all I did was hit refresh on already open FP window...
JLenardDetroit 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….
Regards from NoMoTown (the MOTORlessCITY)
(RS:Help) (JLD) (Hollyweird) (Brain-deads) (SPIN-cycle) (Obamaocare) (Party of kNOw) (Conservatism) (TEApeats) (respectful) (toss McCain)
Heil “O” Hell No Obamao is NOT MY PRESIDENT! “No U won’t”
I want “O” to FAIL (here, here, & whole Diary (Ofail) here, is why)
“The first Liberal was Satan” - a Rush caller (other Quotes)
mine went to antivirus.com
Beaglescout 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 Sunday, January 4th at 2:14AM EST (link)If I recall correctly it was when I clicked the link to log in.
ACORN: Association of Criminals Obama Represented in the Nineties. (jupitersuite)
Don’t be so open minded that your brains fall out. (Fr. John Corapi, SOLT)
Crime never takes a holiday. (Dennis J. O’Shea, R.I.P.)
Unlawful is against the law. Illegal is a sick bird. (Ooold joke)
Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read. (Groucho Marx)
Happened to me twice, it likes to resize my main Firefox window to max size (n/t)
Finrod Sunday, January 4th at 3:01PM EST (link).
Finrod’s First Law of Bandwidth:
A picture may be worth a thousand words, but it takes the bandwidth of ten thousand.
“So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late”
Happened to me once.
itrytobenice 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.
The problem with America is stupidity. I’m not saying there should be capital punishment for stupidity, but why don’t we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?
It just happened to me again. I got the "page reset"
janis Monday, January 5th at 8:09AM EST (link)message with “gotoyourclicks.com” as the redirect.
A correction and more info:
janis Monday, January 5th at 8:58AM EST (link)It’s gotoyourclicks.cn 78.46.101.234,80