META - Anybody else having issues recently with malware when on site?
In the past two days I've had three instances where I'm reading a post (today it was Julian's farewell to the board) and suddenly MGoBlog disappears and in its place I've got an exciting offer from Time Warner or some other such garbage. This is happening on my very well protected work computer (shhhhh.....) so I'm wondering if there's isnt some sort of malicious code embedded here cause it's only happening to me when on MGoBlog and none of the other websites I visit when I'm pretending to work.
FYI I've run Malwarebytes immediately after this happens and each time it finds something and quarantines it so I know there is an issue in one of the sites I have open but the only constant is I'm on MGoBlog when it occurs. Anybody else having this problem recently?
December 12th, 2017 at 1:00 PM ^
Yes but only on mobile (Safari on iPhone)
December 12th, 2017 at 1:01 PM ^
I also have experienced it on Chrome.
December 12th, 2017 at 1:11 PM ^
I'm running Chrome too. Happens a LOT.
December 12th, 2017 at 1:18 PM ^
I'm using chrome on OS X El Capitan.
December 12th, 2017 at 1:42 PM ^
December 12th, 2017 at 4:01 PM ^
and I've had several instances where a new window pops up telling me I've got malware and I should immediately pay some outfit $$ to get rid of it. Hasn't happened for several weeks though.
December 12th, 2017 at 1:44 PM ^
I need the link to this farewell. Those are always a hoot.
December 12th, 2017 at 3:15 PM ^
Yeah. Where was this? I miss too much when I'm working.
December 12th, 2017 at 3:11 PM ^
Install AdBlock, NoScript, and Ghostery. Problems will go away.
December 12th, 2017 at 5:30 PM ^
and Disconnect
December 13th, 2017 at 11:17 AM ^
Privacy Badger is the new must-have extension. Created and maintained by the EFF. It can be a little overly-cautious, but easy to disable or allow resources. Whenever I start seeing that stuff via the ad providers, I turn those on. Usually wait a week and turn them back off to help fund the site.
December 12th, 2017 at 1:39 PM ^
If I'm on a laptop or desktop, no. Mobile phone - yes.
December 12th, 2017 at 5:44 PM ^
I get it on a laptop - well protected - on chrome. It happens a lot.
It will just interrupt the entire MGoBlog site and take me somewhere else out of the blue. It even happens when I am right in the middle of writing a comment. The comment is then gone when I go back.
I don't have this issue anywhere else than MGoBlog. It's kind of troubling.
December 12th, 2017 at 9:04 PM ^
December 12th, 2017 at 3:43 PM ^
December 12th, 2017 at 3:46 PM ^
Same here, on Chrome in mobile
December 12th, 2017 at 6:10 PM ^
December 12th, 2017 at 1:00 PM ^
December 12th, 2017 at 1:00 PM ^
I have definitely gotten malware from mgoblog a couple times in the past. Not for the last several months though.
December 12th, 2017 at 1:24 PM ^
Although my phone isn't protected so it's entirely possible that it's infected.
Nothing on the work machine though. Which is either good, or really bad, since I work in banking. You'd think these machines would be well protected. Maybe not though.
December 12th, 2017 at 1:00 PM ^
December 12th, 2017 at 1:46 PM ^
December 12th, 2017 at 1:03 PM ^
December 12th, 2017 at 1:05 PM ^
using Chrome, been happening for a couple weeks. Chrome auto quarantines the sites for me but it happens a few times a week.
December 12th, 2017 at 1:06 PM ^
Where's Hotel Putingrad? I expect he's up to something again.
December 12th, 2017 at 1:22 PM ^
Russians are using the MGoBlog servers to mine bitcoins
December 12th, 2017 at 1:06 PM ^
December 12th, 2017 at 1:07 PM ^
If by "malware" you mean "trolls," then yes. Having a terrible time with malware.
December 12th, 2017 at 1:07 PM ^
Mobile (Android) tends to get interrupted. Desktop is fine.
December 12th, 2017 at 1:08 PM ^
FYI I'm having those too in a big way. I have a Galaxy 8 (hate it BTW but that's a discussion for another day) and I keep getting the "Virus 4" warning that my phone is dangerously infected with viruses and I need to download this special phone ap immediately or it will shut down. Scared the shit out of me at first cause it said it was from visiting naughty sites (which I dont do) so I researched it and found out it was a scam.
I think there's a problem here and I'm not the only one having it.
December 12th, 2017 at 1:24 PM ^
I honestly thought it was from all the nuaghty sites i visit
December 12th, 2017 at 2:30 PM ^
December 12th, 2017 at 7:48 PM ^
Tell the little lady it is MGoBlog, she will believe that.
December 12th, 2017 at 1:24 PM ^
That's the same one I get (also own a Samsung). It only happens while reading mgoblog - and only happens on mobile.
December 12th, 2017 at 1:37 PM ^
on my Galaxy S7. Cleared the data cache and it's gone. I use Chrome on my phone.
I've been getting some weird pop ups on my Windows PC also with Chrome. I was getting the "your PC is infected warning from Microsoft" pop up as well as a few others. Malwarebytes clears that one out quickly and efficiently.
Glad I'm not the only one with this problem. Seems to only happen when viewing MGoBlog. How dare the internet terrorists ruin my MGoBlogging!
December 12th, 2017 at 2:48 PM ^
your poor wife. shame. shame.
December 12th, 2017 at 5:46 PM ^
I "downgraded" from a Galaxy 8 to a Galaxy 7 and I am very happy. It was cheaper on top of that too.
December 12th, 2017 at 7:26 PM ^
December 12th, 2017 at 1:08 PM ^
I've been getting a ton of pop ups every time I am on the page. Anyone know a solution? (mac and using Chrome)
December 12th, 2017 at 2:01 PM ^
Maybe run some kind of script blocker. Ghostery works pretty good.
December 12th, 2017 at 1:09 PM ^
December 12th, 2017 at 1:46 PM ^
by a member of the Nigerian royal family?
I'm still waiting on my direct deposit from them!!!!!
December 12th, 2017 at 2:19 PM ^
I have received this one.
I don't want a $1000 dollar gift card to Walmart, Amazon, or a free iphone or anything if it takes me away from the post I was reading.
Only expereince it on ipad using Safari and only while reading MGoBlog. Not experiencing it on my work computer.
December 12th, 2017 at 1:09 PM ^
And i'm also on a work computer with eleventy billion protections. Same thing happens on my work phone. Makes viewing the site annoying sometimes. A bad one was reading the recruiting roundup last friday on chrome on the work iPhone.
The site has seemed weird in that regard for a few months.
December 12th, 2017 at 1:45 PM ^
December 12th, 2017 at 1:10 PM ^
Yep. Wondered about malware myself. Just have to close out of everything and reload. But mgoblog is the constant.
Oh, and I get those stupid Russian/Chinese/Middle Eastern dating/bride sites on the sidebars. I've never been to a dodgy dating site . . . actually never been to a dating site of any kind.
December 12th, 2017 at 1:17 PM ^
Holy shit you see those too? i keep seeing the middle eastern one. i assumed its because i work/live near dearborn lol.
December 12th, 2017 at 1:51 PM ^
Holy moly!! First and last time posting on a smart TV with a wireless keyboard. Crap. Thought it wasn't entering. Little did I know. The shame, the shame, the shame.
Seth runs the business side of things, and I guess me has contracted with different dating sites to increase the revenue stream. I put up with it because it means an income for mgoblog and free website for me.
As I type this, the left side bar has an Asian single dating website up, that I can "join free."
I have to admit I'm curious. In my half year in Korea, and being in the Chicago area with tons of Poles and Russians, and living in an area with lots of Indian and Paki immigrants, I have never noticed that they look hardly anything like the girls in the pictures. Some kind of severte disconnect from reality to advertising here.
December 12th, 2017 at 1:55 PM ^
lol i know what you mean. i keep seeing the same chubby aladin looking woman. youre lucky you get a nice variety to look at.
also your triple double most made me lol