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Nov 29, 2007, 11:11 AM
 
when I clicked on this link,

http://forums.macnn.com/89/macnn-lou...yone-tried-it/

I got sent to a site that luckily my work blocked, saying it was a malware site. I believe it was traveltray.com.

I can't reproduce the problem, so maybe I mistakenly clicked on one of the ads on the page.
     
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Nov 29, 2007, 11:19 AM
 
I got it too. I thought it was weird and when I went back to the thread it did not reoccur.
     
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Nov 29, 2007, 12:04 PM
 
I just clicked it for the first time and nothing happened.

Might be because I'm on a Mac, but I imagine most here are. I'm using Safari 2.0.4.
     
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Nov 29, 2007, 12:20 PM
 
I'm on a Mac and I got sent to the site too.
     
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Nov 29, 2007, 12:36 PM
 
I was on a peecee (at work) and running firefox.
     
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Nov 29, 2007, 02:16 PM
 
It would be the ad on the page doing it, I think.
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Nov 29, 2007, 02:41 PM
 
That happened to me last night on a Mac with Safari 3.0.4. I don't remember which thread did it, though, although it was most likely a banner ad on the page rather than the page itself.

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Nov 29, 2007, 05:54 PM
 
i got it just going to the main forum site this morning; firefox 2.0.0.10/windows xp. i didn't return again.

now, back home...haven't had it happen.
     
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Nov 29, 2007, 05:56 PM
 
no redirection here ... weird
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Nov 29, 2007, 08:32 PM
 
No redirection here either. Mac/Firefox.
     
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Nov 29, 2007, 08:48 PM
 
It's only done it to me once, and I haven't been able to get it to do that again, so I'd figure it's one of the banner ads that comes up in infrequent rotation.

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Nov 30, 2007, 02:22 AM
 
I was just forwarded from the main lounge page to this:
     
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Nov 30, 2007, 02:23 AM
 
This happened to me too. I took screen shots of all the screens and you can find it in your history.

It's an ad that is in the banner. I'm not sure, but it either comes up when you close a window or move your mouse over the banner towards something above the banner. It happened so fast I couldn't tell.

If macnn would like to have all the screen shots, let me know and I'll email them too you.

You have a asshole advertiser causing this. It only came up once and never came up again. I'll try another machine later.
     
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Nov 30, 2007, 02:51 AM
 
Originally Posted by Laminar View Post
I was just forwarded from the main lounge page to this:
That page f*cks with Safari too.
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Nov 30, 2007, 02:51 AM
 
Originally Posted by Buckaroo View Post
This happened to me too. I took screen shots of all the screens and you can find it in your history.

It's an ad that is in the banner. I'm not sure, but it either comes up when you close a window or move your mouse over the banner towards something above the banner. It happened so fast I couldn't tell.

If macnn would like to have all the screen shots, let me know and I'll email them too you.

You have a asshole advertiser causing this. It only came up once and never came up again. I'll try another machine later.
Can you post them here?
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Nov 30, 2007, 03:31 AM
 
just had this happen when I opened up the "amazing find" thread
     
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Nov 30, 2007, 03:51 AM
 
Originally Posted by C.A.T.S. CEO View Post
Can you post them here?
I'll have to find a server to upload them onto. I'll try to do it tomorrow night.
     
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Nov 30, 2007, 03:52 AM
 
Just click on the error link above or go to your history and you can click on it again.
     
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Nov 30, 2007, 04:18 AM
 
Originally Posted by Laminar View Post
I was just forwarded from the main lounge page to this:
I just got the same one and it practically hijacked Safari... I believe I got this ad once before, a few months back.
     
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Nov 30, 2007, 04:54 AM
 
I got it too, just now.

I think it’s the same one as previously when this problem occurred: it redirects you three or four times, makes your browser window a tiny little blob in the upper left corner while giving you one of those annoying, “Your computer is infected with viruses, do you want to run this completely virus-free software from an unknown Internet site that just hijacked your browser in order to fix it? [ Ok | Yes ]” alerts. Once clicked (or rather: once escape has been pressed), it takes you to the actual ad site in a humongously blown up Safari window*.

Clickthrough address was the same as the one Laminar posted.



(*When the hell are they going to add that rather important ‘Prevent web sites from moving or resizing your browser window’ option to Safari?!?)
     
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Nov 30, 2007, 07:39 AM
 
I just had it happen too. It happened yesterday and now again today. It's this "traveltray" site with the "error detected" nonsense telling me my PC is not protected. It gives you the option of OK or CANCEL and both options take you to their site.

using Safari
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Nov 30, 2007, 09:10 AM
 
This just happend to me too.. it actually scared the sh*t out of me for a second... then I saw this post.
     
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Nov 30, 2007, 09:47 AM
 
Originally Posted by ebuddy View Post
I just had it happen too. It happened yesterday and now again today. It's this "traveltray" site with the "error detected" nonsense telling me my PC is not protected. It gives you the option of OK or CANCEL and both options take you to their site.

using Safari
Yeah My Windows had the virus!121 OH NOS! I actually laughed when I saw it. But was surprised to see it here.
     
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Nov 30, 2007, 11:08 AM
 
Yup. Happened once to me so far. What ad company would let javascript dialogs in their banner ads?

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Nov 30, 2007, 11:10 AM
 
Originally Posted by Kevin View Post
Yeah My Windows had the virus!121 OH NOS! I actually laughed when I saw it. But was surprised to see it here.
It just happened to me too. I took detailed notes on the behavior, with screenshots. I'll post them here at lunch, but whichever ad company is serving this ad needs to be dropped entirely. This makes ALL of their ads untrustworthy.

To the admins, mods, whoever: DROP THIS AD COMPANY! Don't just ask that the malware ad be removed from the rotation.
     
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Nov 30, 2007, 12:44 PM
 
Ok. Exact behavior of this ad.

1. Surf to a page. Ad server serves this ad, which on loading runs a JavaScript that redirects you away from the originating page (making it very hard to identify which company served the ad or which ad it was).

2. The new page resizes the browser windows to a small square and displays a popup box:



3. Clicking on either "Cancel" or "OK" causes the browser window to expand to the full dimensions of your screen resolution, and an animation runs which shows a "scan" being done. At the end of the "scan," this pops up on screen:



4. Clicking on either "Remove all" or "Ignore" causes the computer to download an ".exe" file:



If this were a windows machine and the person executed the file, it would install the software. Fortunately we're on a Mac and it doesn't affect us, but still. If I can find the ad server that served this, I think it would be best if MacNN didn't do business with that company ever again.
     
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Nov 30, 2007, 01:06 PM
 
Ok. I found the URL of the ad that's being served.

DO NOT CLICK ON THIS URL UNLESS YOU WANT TO GO THROUGH THE ABOVE PROCESS!

Error Detected

More info on this ad: Spyware Sucks

And a few more sites: Alluc.org forum / Malware Scan Advertisement

Exploit Prevention Labs: Banner ads from major sites

DoubleClick caught supplying malware-tainted ads | The Register

Damn you AdTraff. Did MacNN sign up for ads from AdTraff? They need to be dropped permanently if they are.
( Last edited by Person Man; Nov 30, 2007 at 01:22 PM. )
     
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Nov 30, 2007, 01:08 PM
 
Yep, Iit happened to me too.. Got the exe-file sitting on my desktop, and just glad I'm not on a Windows machine.

But MacNN, you need to talk to the people in charge of your banners! This is spyware!
     
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Nov 30, 2007, 01:12 PM
 
Me too. As this thread opened I was forwarded automatically to traveltray.com -> blessdads.com -> scanner2.malware-scan.com. ****wads.
     
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Nov 30, 2007, 01:28 PM
 
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Nov 30, 2007, 02:10 PM
 
Happened again when viewing this thread link

Again a peecee running firefox.
     
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Nov 30, 2007, 02:11 PM
 
Why aren't the mod/admins chiming in on this thread?
     
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Nov 30, 2007, 02:24 PM
 
forwarding the issue to the powers that be.
     
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Nov 30, 2007, 02:28 PM
 
I believe I've disabled the network that caused this ridiculous ad. Let me know if you still see it after this date/time of this post.
     
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Nov 30, 2007, 09:07 PM
 
Unfortunately, I just got it a few minutes ago.

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Nov 30, 2007, 09:09 PM
 
Originally Posted by CharlesS View Post
Unfortunately, I just got it a few minutes ago.
I just got it too. This time it redirected me to performanceoptimizer.com instead of Malware Scan.
     
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Nov 30, 2007, 09:12 PM
 
If it helps at all, this URL showed up right before the blessedads.com/?cmpid=threw6ar one in my browser history, although browsing to it again doesn't seem to do anything:

http://traveltray.com/statsg.php?cam...96469087057.62

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Nov 30, 2007, 09:13 PM
 
beyond the immediate topic: do you think this is an ad company just taking money from anyone, with no interest in what's going on, or have their servers been hijacked?
     
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Nov 30, 2007, 11:05 PM
 
They're back again, I just got some sort of performance website when I attempted to enter a thread. I had to force quit safari.
     
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Nov 30, 2007, 11:15 PM
 
Just got it also when trying to view the Lounge.
     
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Nov 30, 2007, 11:36 PM
 
This MacNN ad really freaked me out:

http://www.netdisaster.com/goff.php?...al-war-lounge/
     
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Dec 1, 2007, 01:09 AM
 
Just happened to me for the third time. Running Mac/Safari.
     
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Dec 1, 2007, 03:10 AM
 
Yup, just happened to me. I think I might have accidentally clicked on a banner. Traveltray is the first URL that I got directed to.
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Dec 1, 2007, 04:20 AM
 
Just had it happen a couple of times. The ad redirected me to: scanner2.malware-scan.com
     
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Just got it

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Just happened to me as well. I haven't seen anything so obnoxious since I ditched my Windows machine last January.
     
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Dec 1, 2007, 10:50 AM
 
Just happened to me. I killed safari via the process manager, just so I don't actually download it by accident.
Question:
1) This download doesnt affect macs right?
2) I've only got ClamAv and the firewall that came with the mac, is the going to be sufficient (ok and enough sense to not provide the Admin/PW to an app I didn't download on purpose).
3) Do I have to worry (I've just migrated from the PC World in August...when the new iMacs came out)?....For some reason that popup really freaks me out

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Dec 1, 2007, 11:08 AM
 
Just got it as well.
     
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Dec 1, 2007, 12:07 PM
 
Just happened to me when trying to load the main forums page.

Ugh.
     
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Originally Posted by Mekman View Post
Just happened to me. I killed safari via the process manager, just so I don't actually download it by accident.
Question:
1) This download doesnt affect macs right?
2) I've only got ClamAv and the firewall that came with the mac, is the going to be sufficient (ok and enough sense to not provide the Admin/PW to an app I didn't download on purpose).
3) Do I have to worry (I've just migrated from the PC World in August...when the new iMacs came out)?....For some reason that popup really freaks me out
1) Nope.
2) Yes.
3) The ****ing arseholes who do this kind of thing will burn in hell, eventually - unless the cops get to them first. Don't worry.
     
 
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