META - Anybody else having issues recently with malware when on site?

Submitted by mGrowOld on

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?  

andrew_

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.

M-Dog

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.

 

 

Gameboy

December 12th, 2017 at 1:46 PM ^

You are correct, this is about really annoying pop up ads with ominous, but false message about your computer being infected. If they were true malware, you probably wouldn't know about it until it is too late.

If you don't want to see 5hese messages, just get a better pop up blocker.

OR do what I do where I disable java script and white list sites to allow javascript. This way, you never have to worry about malware.

mGrowOld

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.

BlueMan80

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!

mp2

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.

StephenRKass

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.

StephenRKass

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.