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I turned the ads back on to see what happens and will watch for unusual activity. 

I did notice that the first ad to pop up was for a singles site, don't think that is Smoking Related and also two adds for Mortgage Refinancing, Also not smoking related.

Here is a screen shot.

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Abigail,
Just FYI, I'm not a premier member, and I haven't had any issues with popups.  Regular members shouldn't be seeing anything except ads imbedded in the page--no popups, no redirects.
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I was just noting that premier people could turn off the add's and may not have seen the problems that appear to people who can not. just one more clue to the problem... If yu do not run IE or if you do not have an anti virus you may not see them.. just trying to help and yes ALL should be "having a pleasant experience on the SMF!" as you said...
 
I have Windows 7 64-bit premium, Norton, Internet Explorer 8, and the premier membership. I have not had any issues with any redirects, trojans, or other stuff - except on one occasion.

I just loaded Win. 7 on our livingroom computer, and was setting up the favorites and what not, so I pulled up SMF and went to log in and it pulled up the full page virus alert spam/trojan. So I hit Ctrl+Alt+Del, killed Internet Explorer, then started again. The second time it let me log on just fine with no issues.

I noticed a couple of intersting things about this. The redirect page popped up as soon as I started to enter my user name, I didn't even get to my password or even finish my user name for that matter. Second I have all the PC's I use set so that SMF remembers me and I don't have to log in after that. I have noticed that a lot of the complaints seem to be when people are logging in, might mention that to Huddler.
 
I've had some strangeness too.

I would NOT recommend disabling any anti virus program because all the smaller hosting sites are usually eaten up with the crap, especially when they are new like this one. The hackers climb all over new sites like crazy because they know they are vulnerable and still less guarded.

It is never, I repeat never, a good idea to advise anyone to disable anti virus protection. Especially for some silly message board. Not unelss you intend to be the one to undo all the damage and make good the loss.
 
I have windows xp pro, ie8 and norton internet security along with blazing fast internet and never a problem with this site or any other the last 7 years on this computer.
 
Our virus system at work has completely blocked SMF now.  It got put on the dangersous site list. :(  I have not been able to get any details from the IT crew.

Good news is so far I have had no problems at home other than eye strain due to the brightness and lack of contrast.

Still not fond of the new format..
 
Abigail4476 said:
Is this a recent problem, as in since yesterday morning (Tuesday) around 9 a.m. CST?  Huddler removed us from the Gourmet ad network, leaving only the Google ads.... 
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While browsing as a guest (not logged in) I got a suspect PDF downloaded today at home around noon, then my VirusScan (McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 8.7i)  popped up a warning that it found a trojan.  Kept it from launching anything though 
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Adobe Acrobat tried to open the file but crashed in the process.

I have a screenshot but it's on my other PC..
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Fourthwind said:
Our virus system at work has completely blocked SMF now.  It got put on the dangersous site list. :(  I have not been able to get any details from the IT crew.

Good news is so far I have had no problems at home other than eye strain due to the brightness and lack of contrast.

Still not fond of the new format..
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Right before the suspect PDF tried to open, IE 8's Smart screen filter asked if I wanted to report the site as unsafe.  I didn't.

Definitely something still going on and I sure bet it has to do with the ads.

Dave
 
I just found something interesting.  I set my IE8 browser an unchecked the block ads in my profile.  I am using Super Ad Blocker with IE8 and here is a screen shot of what I get even when the ads are set to show.

Those of you having problems with ads might try downloading Super Ad Blocker and see if it helps;

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Man I've been testing for the past day or so just because that's how I roll and I've clicked on every ad I came across after disabling all browser security on several machines and browsers.  I was also browsing as a guest user and no dice..

I just don't see the problem.

I do see that after actually clicking on an ad that you get pop-ups and such and I've reported those ads and noticed that they didn't show up again after that.

My guess is the machines that are having issues are already infected with some sort of malware.
 
Something odd is definitely going on,  not gonna 100% blame SMF, but it seems an odd coincidence.  I went to a quick meeting and left SMF open on my browser.  When I came back Norton had stopped another attack, something had tried to turn off my Norton Sonar. 

I can look at all the other food, bbq, truck, news, & email sites I want to all day, and not have any issues or warnings.  I come to SMF and it happens pretty regularly & only since the "upgrade".

I just might have to stay away from this site, or at least not log on from work.   
 
chisoxjim said:
Something odd is definitely going on,  not gonna 100% blame SMF, but it seems an odd coincidence.  I went to a quick meeting and left SMF open on my browser.  When I came back Norton had stopped another attack, something had tried to turn off my Norton Sonar. 

I can look at all the other food, bbq, truck, news, & email sites I want to all day, and not have any issues or warnings.  I come to SMF and it happens pretty regularly & only since the "upgrade".

I just might have to stay away from this site, or at least not log on from work.   
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That really stinks...out of curiosity, are the other sites you go to white-listed in Norton somehow?

I haven't used Norton in years because it seems to make changes on it's own which I don't like, but I know you can white-list some sites in newer versions.

If you want, pm me and I'll send you my e-mail.  I'd love to look at the norton logs if you can get them.
 
I can still participate from home so its not that bad.  I just have more free time at work... 
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I am not that computer savy,  I just turn it on and go(not sure about the other sites,  or the previous SMF version being "white listed" or not,  I have not done anything like that),  Norton has the logs saved if I can figure out a way to send them I will.  Nothing has happened yet today when I have popped in,  but I have been running thr malware program, and doing a full system scan all morning.
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Well I did some research today and I can't say that this has anything to do with what Jim is seeing, but man it sounds close:

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/AdSense/thread?tid=40ce71d66721b826&hl=en

(Suspicious ads impersonating Google Ad Services?)

What I found particularly interesting was this reply to the post:
Hi, I've had exactly the same problem for 2 days now.

Apparently when users visit my site, pdf files download to their computer and also a:

'Warning, this site might harm your computer. Visit Google Safe Browsing diagnosis ... But that link is to www.really really bad site.com

Users that visited my site today emailed me the following:

1. I went to this site, and got a virus warning immediately. I have this in my antivirus log:
2009-05-25 14:12:57 Sign of "HTML:Iframe-inf" has been found in "http://bad site.com" file.

2. My Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2009 said: Virus HEUR:Trojan.Script.Iframer in http://www.really good site.com
I see the same "Virus HEUR:Trojan.Script.Iframer" on many warez sites.

3. iframe src=http://really bad site.com (could not post link with src)

I solved the problem temporarily by disabling all javascript on the site, so no downloads of pdf files or popups of warnings.

Is this really a problem with Adsense?
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This sounds suspiciously like what Jim and others are seeing.  And...maybe not...

I am still going to hesitate to call it a site problem, but something to make you go hmmmmm...
 
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2nd try @ posting this.

gotta say I am pretty discouraged by the lack of response/interest from the powers that be regarding this issue. 
 
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Hang in there man.  I'm sure they are working it out.  I was also thinking if maybe the Tech that setup your work computer has your Norton settings a little too sensitive.  I use Norton corporate at work but have yet to have issues.

 
chisoxjim said:
2nd try @ posting this.

gotta say I am pretty discouraged by the lack of response/interest from the powers that be regarding this issue. 
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Caveman said:
Hang in there man.  I'm sure they are working it out.  I was also thinking if maybe the Tech that setup your work computer has your Norton settings a little too sensitive.  I use Norton corporate at work but have yet to have issues.

 

 
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thanks caveman,
 
Abigail4476 said:
Okay, thanks.  We'll send the feedback to Huddler.  
 

 
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chisoxjim said:
2nd try @ posting this.

gotta say I am pretty discouraged by the lack of response/interest from the powers that be regarding this issue. 
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Jim,

Im confused a bit at your last post. You stated that your discouraged but the lack of response? Abigail responded that she was sending this report to huddler to investigate.  There's not much more that we can do besides that until they respond. It does take them some time to respond because they are trying to duplicate the issue.  I have also been trying to duplicate it and havent been able too. Ive tried it on a mac and a pc at home and multiple computers at work and cant get it to do what is being described. That being said it doesnt mean that there is not a problem with something at SMF but it also doesn't mean that there is not a problem with your computer. I will again report this to huddler for you. If you would like to report issues to them you can do so with the feedback form that I posted about earlier.
 
Thanks, Brian.  
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  It seems to me that the moderators on the SMF have tried to answer every question as soon as possible, and forward any mysteries to Huddler asap.  I certainly haven't seen a trend of people or problems being ignored by SMF or Huddler.    

Like you pointed out, it's hard to repair something that we're unable to duplicate. So all we can do (and all Huddler can do) is troubleshoot until the problems go away.  

Also of note:  Huddler performed an update this evening (I think around 8 pm CST) so hopefully at least some of the problems were fixed when that occurred.  I'll post an excerpt of their email regarding the upgrade in my next post.  

In other news - Jeff & I have been somewhat MIA today because our home phone and DSL are out until at least Saturday; very annoying, but nothing we can do until the att repair dudes get around to us.  Currently, we're accessing a very weak hotspot in the "downtown" area of our small town.  LOL!!!!  
bmudd14474 said:
Jim,

Im confused a bit at your last post. You stated that your discouraged but the lack of response? Abigail responded that she was sending this report to huddler to investigate.  There's not much more that we can do besides that until they respond. It does take them some time to respond because they are trying to duplicate the issue.  I have also been trying to duplicate it and havent been able too. Ive tried it on a mac and a pc at home and multiple computers at work and cant get it to do what is being described. That being said it doesnt mean that there is not a problem with something at SMF but it also doesn't mean that there is not a problem with your computer. I will again report this to huddler for you. If you would like to report issues to them you can do so with the feedback form that I posted about earlier.
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