eFests directing me to spam sites

[wro_lap]

Sorry to post this in here / if it's the wrong place / if it's already been posted.

 

Every time I open a thread on here I get automatically directed to a spam page (often some fake antivirus site or something trying to sell me something) without clicking anything. Seems to generally be ok on menu pages (and I've been fine typing this thread) but once I open any thread and read it for more than 5-10 seconds the page changes.

 

Any help? Anyone else getting this? It's been the case for a couple of days so thought I'd say. Cheers

[tarw]

I’m not having any problems. Could be your machine is infected with malware rather than the site

[MilkyJoe]

Have you tried viewing on a different browser to see if it's the same?

 

@Crazyfool01

@kaosmark2

@kerplunk

[Crazyfool01]

@eFestivals

[robith]

I've been having this too

[kerplunk]

Strange, I had the same thing a few weeks ago, just lasted a day, using firefox but Chrome was ok, then it stopped and nothing since

[westholtschic]

I’ve been having it too, thought it was because I was on someone else’s WIFI 

[merago]

Bit of thread resurrection here, but I've noticed I've occasionally been getting pinged out to what looks like a fake McAfee antivirus site.  It's a full page thing.  Most of the time the ads are all standard stuff but just every now and again I get this, quite clearly, malicious redirect.

It's not my local machine as I see this on multiple computers and on no other websites on those computers.  I know better than to click on anything, so it doesn't overly bother me, but someone may end up clicking through so just wanted to give a heads up.  Next time it happens I'll try and grab a screenie.

 

Edited to add - only noticed this myself the last week or two.

Edited November 14 by merago

[StoneCircle]

2 hours ago, merago said:

Bit of thread resurrection here, but I've noticed I've occasionally been getting pinged out to what looks like a fake McAfee antivirus site.  It's a full page thing.  Most of the time the ads are all standard stuff but just every now and again I get this, quite clearly, malicious redirect.

It's not my local machine as I see this on multiple computers and on no other websites on those computers.  I know better than to click on anything, so it doesn't overly bother me, but someone may end up clicking through so just wanted to give a heads up.  Next time it happens I'll try and grab a screenie.

 

Edited to add - only noticed this myself the last week or two.

@eFestivals Can you look at this please? 

[merago]

This is the one- 

 

[cdm22]

I get this too and it only ever happens when on here.

[Neil]

its likely to be rogue adverts which include a redirect payload within the advert graphic, its a regular issue with web adverts, difficult to detect and difficult to stop.i'm sure @eFestivals will get on it as soon as hes aware of the problem, as he helped me track and stop these many times when i ran efests.

[StoneCircle]

5 hours ago, merago said:

This is the one- 

 

 

1 hour ago, Neil said:

its likely to be rogue adverts which include a redirect payload within the advert graphic, its a regular issue with web adverts, difficult to detect and difficult to stop.i'm sure @eFestivals will get on it as soon as hes aware of the problem, as he helped me track and stop these many times when i ran efests.

 

@eFestivals More information on the rogue ads....

[WS_Jack_III]

Yeah I just got the McAfee redirect.

[Crazyfool01]

6 hours ago, WS_Jack_III said:

Yeah I just got the McAfee redirect.

@eFestivals

[stuartbert two hats]

Yep, just got the McAfee one, it tried to get me to download Opera.exe!

 

This is my first time back on eFests on a desktop for over and year and it immediately tries to get me to install malware 🤨.

[mattt97]

Also getting this, I recall getting it also earlier in the year when I was frequenting the forum before Glastonbury 24. 

[StoneCircle]

On 11/14/2024 at 12:02 PM, merago said:

Bit of thread resurrection here, but I've noticed I've occasionally been getting pinged out to what looks like a fake McAfee antivirus site.  It's a full page thing.  Most of the time the ads are all standard stuff but just every now and again I get this, quite clearly, malicious redirect.

It's not my local machine as I see this on multiple computers and on no other websites on those computers.  I know better than to click on anything, so it doesn't overly bother me, but someone may end up clicking through so just wanted to give a heads up.  Next time it happens I'll try and grab a screenie.

 

Edited to add - only noticed this myself the last week or two.

 

On 11/14/2024 at 7:48 PM, merago said:

This is the one- 

 

 

On 11/14/2024 at 11:15 PM, cdm22 said:

I get this too and it only ever happens when on here.

 

On 11/14/2024 at 11:20 PM, Neil said:

its likely to be rogue adverts which include a redirect payload within the advert graphic, its a regular issue with web adverts, difficult to detect and difficult to stop.i'm sure @eFestivals will get on it as soon as hes aware of the problem, as he helped me track and stop these many times when i ran efests.

 

On 11/17/2024 at 9:54 AM, WS_Jack_III said:

Yeah I just got the McAfee redirect.

 

4 hours ago, stuartbert two hats said:

Yep, just got the McAfee one, it tried to get me to download Opera.exe!

 

This is my first time back on eFests on a desktop for over and year and it immediately tries to get me to install malware 🤨.

 

32 minutes ago, mattt97 said:

Also getting this, I recall getting it also earlier in the year when I was frequenting the forum before Glastonbury 24. 

@eFestivals Please can you look at these please Iggy? It looks to be happening more frequently now, thanks 😊

[gazzared]

Same I've been getting it on two separate laptops as soon as I loaded up efests before I even had chance to log in . It was the first time both laptops had been on efests. One using edge and the other using Firefox .

My message looked like It was Microsoft defender telling me I needed to install the latest update.

Thanks

Edited November 21 by gazzared

[kaosmark2]

I'm just going to pass on that Iggy is aware of this and actively working on a solution for these ads.