I've looked into this, and the most likely culprit is an old buggy version of vBSEO, which is an analytics plug-in for vBulletin which this site runs on.

AK needs to update vBSEO to the latest version (and possibly the entire vBulletin install) in order to correct this.

The problem is only on clicking links from google searches that I'm aware of since they use a linkback URL syntax. It will happen once or twice or a few times in a row and then it will eventually cure itself.

yea this is some sort of malware. someone needs to run some virus scan's and update the server quick!

I agree with you completely except for the last part, from my research it sounds like the redirect code is designed to only happen so often i.e. not every time you go to the site. I believe AK needs to remove the line of code and then update, but I could be wrong on that. The links I provided earlier explain everything better than I could.


Sent from my iPizzle using magic and new-fangled science stuff

I believe it has something to do with caching. Once correctly resolved I never see it again for the rest of the browsing session. You never get it visiting the site directly, only on a google search.

Agreed. I'm not an expert in this so I'll defer to you in this :)


Sent from my iPizzle using magic and new-fangled science stuff

I got a reply from AK and he will be looking into it.

Sounds good, thanks man!


Sent from my iPizzle using magic and new-fangled science stuff

Still going on. I don't want to catch something from going to this forum. I would hope to see the redirect removed...:tup:

You've had worse, nothing a little penicillan can't fix :rolleyes:

Once you've had the Shado 'erps, you won't even care about a computer virus.

But just to make this clear, it doesn't seem like a virus that infects your computer. It's solely on the forum and won't do any damage to your computer. You're safe. It's just annoying.


Sent from my iPizzle using magic and new-fangled science stuff

Glad this is getting looked into. It doesn't happen to me much, maybe just 1/5 of the time, but it's still annoying.

No wonder... I saw the exact same thing early this week. I was searching for the AAM oil cooler and clicked on this forum post from Google. I barely got to this site when it got redirected to some other site. A pop up dialog asks me to visit their sponsors or whatever when leaving the site. I had to manually kill the browser to get out of the mess.

Ah this is the bug... clicking back doesn't help. It pops up a messagebox asking the user to visit the site's sponsors, and it prevents the user from getting focus on the browser. I ended up killing the browser from the task manager.

BTW, at work... the firewall blocks the URL site and categorizing it as "scam, spam, illegal, etc."

I can't even go on this site from my home computer do to all these prompts that indicate it’s a threat for viruses. It allows me to visit here and there on my work computer without redirecting me to a different URL. I think it has to do with there is no security. Anybody that isn’t a member can browse. All other car sites that I have been on require membership to browse.

I can't even go on this site from my home computer do to all these prompts that indicate it’s a threat for viruses. It allows me to visit here and there on my work computer without redirecting me to a different URL. I think it has to do with there is no security. Anybody that isn’t a member can browse. All other car sites that I have been on require membership to browse.