e cig forum being attacked

[MikeDeason]

I got the redirect from google also.

It even redirects when I try to reply to the redirect thread.

NOT a computer virus because it happens on 2 different computers with different ISP's.

 

[uber]

same thing here

 

[simply me]

It happened to me to. Just using yahoo.

 

[MikeDeason]

it stopped doing it....weird.

Definately noithing on my computer. Tried it on a buddys as well as my 2

Wonder how many e cigs that spam site sold

 

[Ardeagold]

Working okay for me too now. No redirect.

 

[FreakyStylie]

So, I'm not crazy. Well, let me rephrase that. So, I wasn't crazy when that happened to me at work today.

What was that?

 

[AC0J]

Had to be an issue with cookies. Someone is trying to steal ECF's thunder!

 

[MikeDeason]

the redirect was some kind of online pharmacy selling e cigs for me

Same?

 

[AC0J]

the redirect was some kind of online pharmacy selling e cigs for me

Same?

YES! That seems to be what was happening to every one. I heard something from a few people about "smiley" something.

 

[Ardeagold]

Yep...it was a pharmacy in Canada. LOL

 

[FreakyStylie]

the redirect was some kind of online pharmacy selling e cigs for me

Same?

I think so. I hit stop before it fully loaded though. Opened Google again and it did the same thing.

I've seen Google get hacked quite a few times . . . it may have been some rogue hacker trying to drum up business for that site. Sometimes hackers will do it just to realize traffic counts, increase hits, etc . . . I'm not really worried about it. Google is usually pretty quick to fix that stuff, and it is only an inconvenience for us, no virus issues.

 

[NCC]

So, Freaky, you think it was Google, and not ECF that was hacked? That's pretty freaky! But, yeah I'm sure they've got the talent on hand 24/7 to nip something like that pretty quickly.

FWIW, I didn't witness any of the strangeness. But, I don't enter ECF via Google (that seems odd to, except for visitors stumbling in).

 

[FreakyStylie]

So, Freaky, you think it was Google, and not ECF that was hacked? That's pretty freaky! But, yeah I'm sure they've got the talent on hand 24/7 to nip something like that pretty quickly.

FWIW, I didn't witness any of the strangeness.

I've hung out in some chat rooms and forums, and have witnessed some pretty impressive stuff. Most of it is harmless though. Mostly manipulation of search results, website traffic overloads to cause shut downs, generating false news reports, etc. The worst thing that somebody messing with Google could do, is to redirect you to a site that has a virus, but that's easy to avoid if you never click anything. It really did resemble either a Google error, or a hack on them.

 

[MikeDeason]

I passed on the the crappy e cigs on that redirect but scored a great deal on some cheap .......

As far as I can tell the redirect was a mirror because the online store I hit for the ...... was legit.

Alls well that ends well

 

[VAPOINSANO]

Yep...it was a pharmacy in Canada. LOL

those darn canucks !

i'll keep an eye out 4 em !

on all 35 million too,

you watch,........
....... i'll seee em !

 

[Timtam]

We need to know a few more things about your system before we can really narrow down if it is an issue on our end.

What browser are you using?
What Operating System?
Are you using an anti-virus and firewall? If so, which type(s)?

 

[rolygate]

This is probably a site hack so our coder will look at it. It's happened before, one of the plugins is vulnerable - the coder cleans the infected files then patches it. We regularly get a report like this from one or two people, and in that case it's a local problem for them - but when it's hundreds, like now, then we have to look at the site. It has happened, once before.

 

[RippleInStillWater]

I never got redirected but there was a lot of code at the top of the page a couple times and the page itself wasn't correctly displayed -- but it only happened maybe 3 times and hasn't happened since. Just giving you another person's experience!

 

[Eric Spofford]

So, I'm not crazy. Well, let me rephrase that. So, I wasn't crazy when that happened to me at work today.

What was that?

i dent do it im not that good lol sownds like a glich maby thay fix it now hmm be cool to know whut whus going on dent happen to me

 

[rolygate]

Hey, Hecknaw's got a brother