Hijacked links?

[MsSassyBaskets]

Hi team,

I'm having an occasional issue when I click on a thread (usually from the "new posts" view) and instead of taking me to the thread, I'm getting phishy ads about updating my browser. Usually when I close them and re-click on the thread link it goes through ok. I'm pretty fanatical about preventing/detecting malware and viruses, and not clicking/downloading anything I don't trust. I'm scanning on my end and not finding anything. Don't worry, it won't drive me away, but I thought you should know in case there's anything you can do on the other end.

[PrincessFiona]

This is good info. Please let me know if this continues!

[Pollyanna]

On my iphone I can get to the thread but then it goes to an outside advertisement and then links to the App Store. I have to shut down to get back on.

[Pollyanna]

Oh, and the link is redirect.moblepartner

[diggitydot]

Hijacked links?

I get redirects online to the App Store all the time from websites. I've never experienced it here, though.

[Sheherezade]

I haven't had this happen at all in Firefox or on iPhone with Tapa. Any specific pages of threads? Just curious. Wondering if it could be something that's attached to the post.

[Pollyanna]

Hmmm, it was most threads this morning. I only have the issue on my iPhone so I figured it was my device.

[SoonerTexan]

No issues on tapatalk

[diggitydot]

I probably don't experience it here because I mainly access the site via Tapatalk.

[Mrs. MD, Esq.]

I probably don't experience it here because I mainly access the site via Tapatalk.

Same

[WolfpackWife]

Just figured out what this thread was referring to. This has happened to me several times this week but I didn't pick up on it until right now. I keep the site open in a tab in the background of my computer all day. A few times this week I've looked at Chrome to see one tab was oddly advertising a game or something. I close it and then notice that iMSN is gone. I kept thinking I closed it myself at some point but now I'm realizing that the site is somehow being diverted to an add site. No correlation on which links I've clicked, though.

[poky]

Hm. Tapatalk people haven't seen this, and I haven't seen this...but I have adblock set up, so my guess is that it's an ad or ads on the site that's managing to hijack the site? I don't know anything about how the ads work or how they're set up...Kris, is it possible there are "bad" ads in there doing this?

[WolfpackWife]

I haven't paid much attention but I do think a few times the site diverted it was to some kind of online game play site...like a medieval game or something? I'll pay more attention next time if it will help.

[BonBon]

I haven't seen it either through Tapa or Chrome. (I still use chrome because of the enter key issue on IE)

[MsSassyBaskets]

I only use Chrome, so that's where I've seen it. It's off and on though, it seemed to peak a couple days ago.