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?  

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StephenRKass

December 12th, 2017 at 1:48 PM ^

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. 

Joined: 07/15/2008

MGoPoints: 23001

StephenRKass

December 12th, 2017 at 1:48 PM ^

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. 

Joined: 07/15/2008

MGoPoints: 23001

StephenRKass

December 12th, 2017 at 1:48 PM ^

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. 

Joined: 07/15/2008

MGoPoints: 23001

StephenRKass

December 12th, 2017 at 1:48 PM ^

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. 

Joined: 07/15/2008

MGoPoints: 23001

StephenRKass

December 12th, 2017 at 1:48 PM ^

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. 

Joined: 07/15/2008

MGoPoints: 23001

You Only Live Twice

December 12th, 2017 at 1:58 PM ^

From just about every world region.  Also never been to any dating site of any kind.

Not happened today - just the usual ads for Residence Inn, Red Cross  and Amazon.

Joined: 09/14/2013

MGoPoints: 9615

Fishbulb

December 12th, 2017 at 1:17 PM ^

...I’m about to get a new laptop, desktop, tablet, and phone (among other things). I have been selected as a beneficiary of a very wealthy Nigerian prince’s estate. I sent over the processing fee...just waiting for my return check. That country is so backwards you have to send money to get money, I guess.

Joined: 07/24/2011

MGoPoints: 31716

michigancarcajou

December 12th, 2017 at 1:31 PM ^

Whenever I used my iPad or iPhone, I win $1000 gift card from Google.  (Only when going to this site) Not sure how to stop it.  I've cleared by broswer history, and that doen't work.  Blocking popups does no work either.

Joined: 10/13/2017

MGoPoints: 42

Brian Griese

December 12th, 2017 at 1:35 PM ^

with the iPhone and iPad. It will bounce me to some thing I supposedly “won”. It’s been going on for over a week. I was going to start a thread but figured I’d get some responses about laying off the porn sites.

Joined: 10/25/2014

MGoPoints: 30240

NashvilleBLUE

December 12th, 2017 at 1:37 PM ^

I don’t tupically use an Adblock extension because my philosophy is: if I’m going to a site for free and I like their content, I will gladly deal with banner ads to help the site. I had to install a blocker on my iPhone BECAUSE of this site and TTB. Those two sites I was getting constant redirects to weird sites, App Store downloads, or pop-ups for “you’ve won!!”. Once I installed the adblocker on my iPhone, Ive had that issue zero times.

Joined: 10/08/2016

MGoPoints: 7219

StephenRKass

December 12th, 2017 at 2:05 PM ^

I'm curious about how ads on the internet work.

  1. Could we donate to mgoblog in order to block all mail order bride and dating websites?
  2. I know there are metrics for everything . . . I'd love to know how many hits those websites get. I mean, Brian has said, "do your amazon order through mgoblog." I wonder how much moola Brian and Seth and the blog get for every dating site hit, and more than that, for every dating site transaction. It's all about the money, right?

Joined: 07/15/2008

MGoPoints: 23001