Recent site weirdness

[skaukatt]

I've also noticed since yesterday, 2/14/16, that the ad banner infringes on the upper most post in the thread list. Tried it on both Firefox and IE.

 

[Stick]

If you are logged in, you should not be seeing any ads.  Ads are for those who are not members, or not logged in.

This was my understanding too, but as outlined in the other thread regarding ads, I've been getting an ads banner for the last year or so. It even got to the stage where ads were opening windows of their own accord.

I'm running a reputable malware programme and good anti virus software. Clearly something is amiss and as I pointed out on the other thread, I'm pretty confident it's not my end.

Right, I'm off my soap box now.

 

[Brewdude]

I've also noticed since yesterday, 2/14/16, that the ad banner infringes on the upper most post in the thread list.  Tried it on both Firefox and IE.

This just started happening to me as well. Not all the time but not a good trend!

:evil:



No Cheers,

RR

 

[Hermit]

Speaking of site weirdness, is Smoker's Forums gone for good this time?

 

[mark]

Another notice from Forumotion.


Our DataCenter has alerted us about a maintenance in the night of Thursday, February 18 to Friday, February 19 (UTC+2).
During this timeframe, you will experience some interruptions, slowdowns, and white pages in service while our DataCenter completes the maintenance activities.
Please note that the maintenance is beyond our control but there is no risk of data lose during this process.

We'll inform you as soon as possible.

 

[LL]

Just encountered some straight-up malware here about ten minutes ago.

Tried to edit a post, and the instant I hit enter a browser hijack occurred that locked my machine until I clicked a popup box's download button.

I didn't of course, and know how to end-run those ********, but not everyone does.

 

[Hermit]

Just encountered some straight-up malware here about ten minutes ago.

Tried to edit a post, and the instant I hit enter a browser hijack occurred that locked my machine until I clicked a popup box's download button.  

I didn't of course, and know how to end-run those ********, but not everyone does.

Well...fill us in.
What did this thing look like and how'd ya fix it?

 

[LL]

It was one of those "clean & update your browser" popupss that locks everything hoping you know no other way out except to click OK and download something. It even disables your "force quit" menu.

The way to dodge them is to power down your machine with its on/off button, disconnect your Internet line, then power back up and delete your browser history and all your cookies & etc. before returning to the site that launched it (it will immediately re-capture your browser if you don't).

 

[Hermit]

Thanks.


I saw the other day these scoundrels highjacked a hospital and held it for ransom.
They paid.

 

[LL]

Yeah, that was military grade encryption stuff at the hospital. So far NO one has been able to crack it. The security pros say it comes out of Russia / Eastern Europe.

The single machine browser capture BS (so far) isn't serious. Mostly designed to catch housewives and casual users who just click through, and the installed **** doesn't interfere with your machine after that in the user experience sense of the word. It just lets bad guys control it remotely as a spam bot (the processing occurs in the background) whenever there's a CPU-light task underway (which is most of the time with modern machines---they have WAY more horsepower than needed for forums, ebay, Amazon, Facebook & etc.)

It still damn well don't want it there, of course. :lol:

 

[bob&sam]

Speaking of site weirdness, is Smoker's Forums gone for good this time?

I am also interested if anyone here has info about what happened to
SF.

 

[Brewdude]

It was one of those "clean & update your browser" popupss that locks everything hoping you know no other way out except to click OK and download something.  It even disables your "force quit" menu.

The way to dodge them is to power down your machine with its on/off button, disconnect your Internet line, then power back up and delete your browser history and all your cookies & etc. before returning to the site that launched it (it will immediately re-capture your browser if you don't).

This is very good to know. Thanks for sharing.


Cheers,

RR

 

[Hermit]

Speaking of site weirdness, is Smoker's Forums gone for good this time?

I am also interested if anyone here has info about what happened to
SF.

Saw this today...

We are very sorry for the Smokers Forums to be offline for so long, we are trying everything within our power to get it back up and running, the data centre that hosts SF has had a major power outage which in turn corrupted the SF database, we have been unsuccessful with trying to restore the data to date but rest assured we are still trying .

If they have to start from scratch again, I don't think they'll make it.

 

[mark]

If they have to start from scratch again, I don't think they'll make it.

Yeah, the last glitch they had was tough.

 

[Hermit]

SF is back, but it appears they may have lost the last couple of years of content.
I hope they can restore the corrupt data. :|

 

[Brewdude]

No problems with this site for the last few weeks. Have yet to try and download Adblocker Plus or the like.



Cheers,

RR