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Author: | pnm [ Sun Jul 12, 2015 7:32 pm ] |
Post subject: | anybody seeing spam/redirect ads |
Hello, From a user I received a report that he's seeing very intrustive ads on calcudoku.org: first there's a note in Chinese (?) with the header "page at http:/www.igffinancial.com contains". Then there's a text in badly written Dutch, stating something along the lines "your phone is being attacked by a virus that can steal your privacy by the American hackers on May 19th". after you click Ok or "back", you're redirected to an app in the playstore: "360 security antivirus boost". Anyone else seeing this? thanks, Patrick |
Author: | nailhouse [ Sun Jul 12, 2015 8:46 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: anybody seeing spam/redirect ads |
Yes, since about 3 days. I,m using firefox on an android tablet. Very annoying. |
Author: | pnm [ Sun Jul 12, 2015 9:23 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: anybody seeing spam/redirect ads |
nailhouse wrote: Yes, since about 3 days. I,m using firefox on an android tablet. Very annoying. Did it go away since about 30 minutes ago? (I disabled one of the 2 ad provides I use) Patrick |
Author: | nailhouse [ Mon Jul 13, 2015 12:40 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: anybody seeing spam/redirect ads |
I just had the second part of the discribed events; the popup screen was absent. Until now it appeared quiet. (And i get a text in bad german instead of dutch) |
Author: | pnm [ Mon Jul 13, 2015 4:24 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: anybody seeing spam/redirect ads |
nailhouse wrote: (And i get a text in bad german instead of dutch) Probably some lame auto translation from the scammer's language. So it's not happening anymore? |
Author: | nailhouse [ Mon Jul 13, 2015 8:38 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: anybody seeing spam/redirect ads |
It happened again 1 minute ago |
Author: | pnm [ Tue Jul 14, 2015 11:36 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: anybody seeing spam/redirect ads |
Not good :-( I just sent you e-mail with some questions (figured it'd be quicker to do this via e-mail). Edit: I've been checking for a bit, and now it looks like this comes from malware specific to "Android", so fortunately not related to the site Edit 2: Android tablets only so far, still could be related to the site (could be served via ad of one of my ad providers) |
Author: | pnm [ Thu Jul 16, 2015 1:42 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: anybody seeing spam/redirect ads |
I was now able to reproduce the issue by sending a fake "user agent string" (making the ad software think I was using an Android tablet) I'll be sending detailed info to the ad provider, and will disable ads on Android tablets/phones. |
Author: | pnm [ Sat Aug 08, 2015 10:07 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: anybody seeing spam/redirect ads |
The ad provider wrote to me to say they've now disabled the offending ads. I've re-enabled ads on Android devices, please do let me know if anything untoward reappears... |
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