C'mon Afterdawn!

I have used IE again, just to see if I could replicate the issue...I don't know, maybe due to whatever you guys have implemented,I had no issue. All works fine, no hijacking/redirecting;all adds are there, just benign.

 

AVG caught it.

I opened AVG and was redirected to

http://94.23.72.47/index.html

AVG identified it as:

Exploit Rogue MCOS type `1027

The problem is that I didn't see what ads were up before the redirect. I did a back and Cheetocorn was the banner ad.

 

I figured I would give AD another chance...but it seems people are still having the problems.

As for Adblock plus: It still downloads the ads and any viruses they may contain...it just does not show them. It also does nothing to prevent the most malicious advertisements...as it does not even offer the option to block these. Becides, ads pay for most of the web...and I don't mind them as long as they don't:
1.) Forward me to other sites without permission
2.) Try to infect me with malware
3.) Make a 10K page take 30 seconds to load.
...and the ads on AD do all of these things.

I assumed that the malicious ads were coming from the advertisers (why would AD try to do this?)...but that does not change the fact that they are on your site. It sounds like you only have two advertising partners, and one is providing most of the ads. It is in the site's own best interest to find more sources anyway, regardless of the fact that your primary advertiser is nothing more than a malware peddler.

BTW...by adding that particular IP adress to the block list, you make AD fail to load (or take very long to load) every time that IP is referenced by an ad. This is because this site is setup to load the advertising before the content...something very silly for a site that is mostly text. Also, rouge security companies rarely (if ever) use only 1 IP for their crimes, for this very reason.

 

Adblockers ignored, this is still a "Legit" site that forwards you to a malware site. Most porno and warez sites don't even do that! If you are going to run a website that forwards people to malware, you might as well add a "how to steal credit card numbers" section to the forum.

 

I have been coming back here every 2 or 3 hrs for the last 3 days and nothing has poped up anymore. If it does i'm ready to capture a view of the page. I hope it was a hit and run deal, where they have pulled it and moved on to somebody else

 

Normally I would rise to the challenge.. but nothings going to infect a linux system.. and I disallow java all the time because the horrid stuff has nasty habits with the 64 version of java right now... nothing worse than a java based flash window failing to open (applet:start) and then locking up the whole browser.. grrrr..

anyway.. IF people would ditch that retard proprietary operating system with all it's deliberate faults and security holes when online none of this would matter... Creaky and myself sometimes even download this malicious stuff when we find it.. just for fun.

I want more malware redirects and trojan infected flash ads, not less.. they are cool.. hehehehehe.. My collection is slowly growing.

 

It looks like your friends at google changed the ads that AD gets...now most of the banner ads are for Google phones, and none seem to try to do anything malicious.


Scum...
Linux ( and those who write software for it ) don't keep up with the times, and don't even support many things that microsoft was doing years ago. They excuse themselves by saying that "You don't REALLY need it" or "it would be a security hole"...and thus force most users to stick with windows. If linux was really secure, then it would be possible to do things such as activeX securly...as it is, they cannot be done at all. Don't get me wrong, I do think linux has lots of good uses...but untill the devs start including the features that have been standard with windows for years, very few end users will switch.

 

bull.. we don't keep up with "unnecessary" gimmicks.. next time you use a dvd ripper or a freeware x264 codec think about who you apologists are slating.. .. the very people who write the software your favourite website uses to provide you with all this chance to slag us off.. given the opportunity m$ would have you all locked down 100% now if it wasn't for us.. You will never be quoted by Richard Stallman.. I have been.. hehehehe. I will be free to do as I choose when you can't even watch a dvd without inputting your credit card details..

M$ have never had an original idea ever.. they are just following the herd who go before them.. aero.. compiz+beryl.. but those are mature and don't need 2 gigs of ram to implement..

afterdawn RUNS and is HOSTED on LINUX servers.. now who looks stupid?? hahahahahaha

 

"unnecessary" gimmicks

You just proved my point...you say they are "unnecessary" and I need them to do my job...I genuinly tried to go to linux, but most of the things I needed to do were deemed "Unnecessary" by the linux programers. Who decides what is necessary anyway? The Amish don't seem to think any part of a computer is necessary.

I have never had to enter a credit card to watch anything; with the exception of when I signed up for netflix. (BTW..."watch instantly" is another "unnecessary feature" that linux "does not need")

As for the AD servers, I assumed they were linux (windows server is a joke, and Unix is just Linux with fewer features and a price tag). Linux makes an excelent server...that is why I wrote "Don't get me wrong, I do think linux has lots of good uses" in my initial post. However, there is a big difference between a web server and a workstation; even if the hardware is very similar.

Yes, linux makes an excelent server...but it does not even have full bluray support...something that even video games have.

AGAIN, LINUX HAS IT'S PLACE...BUT IT DOES NOT DO WHAT I NEED, AND IT DOES NOT DO WHAT MANY AVERAGE USERS NEED, LET ALONE WHAT THEY WANT.

(sorry for yelling).

 

I think google did find them (either that, or they only paid for a few days). I've been trying to make it happen since yesterday without luck...when I started this thread, it had happened twice in 5 pages.

At least I know it was not coming from anything on my machine...because I didn't remove anything from my machine.

Even when blocked, the ads still download (I agree, this should not happen...and that is why I don't like adblock plus). I can tell because I can see what is being downloaded as it downloads...and the banner adds download before anything but the header and about 1K of styling. I know this is common because it is easier to write this way...but I also know that it can be written so that the text loads before images, videos, and flash objects.

Most flash-based ads can be blocked by hovering over the ad untill an X tab appears above the image...but it will not do this for other flash ads. I never get popups anyway (unless I hold shift while I click a link)...even without adblockers.

Bad links in HTML make the page load faster, this is true...but this is not always true with the various other languages that make up most of the internet, and it certainly isn't true of adresses referenced by flash-based objects. (Can you tell that I hate flash almost as much as apple does?)

 

My bad, I didn't know google's ads were written to prevent the use of iFrames.

"I'm not exactly sure what you mean by this. Javascript calls to "non-existing" (i.e. blocked) content doesn't block the browser. Flash objects are non-blocking by nature - they don't "freeze" the rest of the page if content is unreachable."

this is true, but they do block the rest of the page while they are loading, and bad links can cause them to take a very long time to load (or rather, to repeatedly attempt to load). Idealy, flash objects would be written clean and simple, and to give up after one try...but we all know that this is not the case most of the time.

 

Well, whatever it is, it's still there. Strange that it only pops up when I open Afterdawn. No other websites seem to trigger it.