Site Virus/Spam?

adampetrasek

I've been getting this problem very consistently on my work's mac clicking links from google reader. Very annoying!!!

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dmhenderson

Confirming that this has happened on both my work machine and my home machine. I installed malwarebytes and S&D and neither picked anything up. It's super annoying because you have to close your browser to get out of the "ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO LEAVE THIS GAY WEBPAGE LOL" cycle and can't use your back arrow.

Davey

This happens to me on my work computer (Firefox) but I don't recall seeing it at home where I use Chrome mainly.

And yes, I think it is when I search specifically for the370z.com using advanced search on google.com and click a result.

Like if you put "site:the370z.com 2013 370z" (without quotes) in google search to restrict results to this site like I do from work a lot, where I'm not logged into the site anyway.

ChrisSlicks

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.

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chops

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

1st

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.

ChrisSlicks

Just visit the site by using a link saved to favorites and you won't have any issues. Copy the following link and save to favorites:

http://www.the370z.com

The issue only happens when you type the name into google.

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Huck

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.


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ChrisSlicks

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.

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Huck

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


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Trips

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

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Huck

Sounds good, thanks man!


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Huck

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.


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DarkJak

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.

DIGItonium

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.

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