Malware site hijack?
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Baja
Joined: Nov 2017
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From: Green Bay, WI
Malware site hijack?
I have an issue that comes up randomly, maybe once a day. I bring up new posts and click one to view and sometimes instead of going to the thread it redirects through a series of sites (URL changes fast) until it lands at a Malware page claiming I have a system infection, blah blah blah. Only happen on this site. Using a Mac and its clean of anything. Curious if others have this issue.
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Baja
Joined: Nov 2017
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From: Green Bay, WI
I do have the "warn when visiting fraudulent sites" disabled in Safari. I reenabled it for now. Latest Mojave update too. Reading about it, it could be an ad-related item and could be connected to a cookie. So I trashed all my cookie files too. Just weird it only happens here.
Rock Crawling
Joined: May 2019
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From: Red Deer, AB
No issues here, using Win 10 Pro X64 with Firefox and tried again using iPad with Safari, no redirects. Some hijack malware checks to see if it is still installed and if not, goes out and reinstalls itself, had one like that a few years ago and it was a challenge getting rid of it permanently, good luck...
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Baja
Joined: Nov 2017
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From: Green Bay, WI
iOS Safari is very different than OS X. No malware on my system at all. Since deleting cookies it has not come up, yet. From what I have read it is tripped usually by an advertiser tied to a specific cookie. There is no actual malware that triggers this.
Rock Crawling
Joined: May 2019
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From: Red Deer, AB
Tried again with friend's Mac Pro on OS X (Mojave?), no problem. The redirect hijack software that I had was on Windows 7 and was a bear to get rid of, sounds like you had (as you suspected) an ad cookie or something like that, no virus, thank your lucky stars...