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Post by sp3ctre » Wed Jan 03, 2018 10:07 pm

greg81 wrote: Wed Jan 03, 2018 9:46 pmFunnily enough I've not seen this in the past few days. May well be related to the ssl cert you've installed. Will keep an eye on it still
That was one of the reasons for doing it. Fingers crossed, let me know how it goes :thumbsup:
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Post by greg81 » Thu Jan 04, 2018 8:44 pm

Bad news I'm afraid, I got one of these tonight.

I'm almost certain it's a dodgy ad misbehaving from your as supplier but I couldn't get back to see what it might have been causing it.

History shows it originating from z4forum...

I had a quick search up on "rgshark" and there's other forums experiencing the same issues so might be worth checking to see what ad suppliers they use

https://www.whois.com/whois/rgshark.com - a Chinese firm by the looks of it
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Post by sp3ctre » Thu Jan 04, 2018 9:24 pm

mmm interesting, seems a lot of forums are having the same, and not necessarily using the same software either. Free Life Membership to the first person to get to the bottom of this!
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Post by Tcochrane92 » Thu Jan 04, 2018 9:27 pm

I'm still getting it on this forum, appears randomly it seems with random selections

For the moment I would recommend not writing any personal information on the site until the bug is fixed, need know what its intentions are. That includes in private messages, mobile numbers, full names, home addresses, bank details etc
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Post by greg81 » Thu Jan 04, 2018 9:48 pm

For what it's worth I don't think this is actually a severe issue. It's basically just an old-school popup that manifests itself as a browser hijack and because it's on mobile it appears to be malicious.

That said you should never be sharing any personal information on any website regardless of potential threats such as this as a rule of thumb!

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Post by Marlon » Thu Jan 04, 2018 10:52 pm

greg81 wrote: Thu Jan 04, 2018 9:48 pmFor what it's worth I don't think this is actually a severe issue. It's basically just an old-school popup that manifests itself as a browser hijack and because it's on mobile it appears to be malicious.

That said you should never be sharing any personal information on any website regardless of potential threats such as this as a rule of thumb!
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Post by Phoenixboy » Wed Jan 17, 2018 10:22 pm

Seems to be a load of rubbish posted on detailing section?????
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Post by firebobby » Wed Jan 17, 2018 10:27 pm

Phoenixboy wrote: Wed Jan 17, 2018 10:22 pmSeems to be a load of rubbish posted on detailing section?????
He's been reported
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Post by Phoenixboy » Wed Jan 17, 2018 10:32 pm

Okay cheers 🤨
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Post by firebobby » Wed Jan 17, 2018 10:36 pm

Well done Mods :)
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Post by Mr Tidy » Thu Jan 18, 2018 12:43 am

Phoenixboy wrote: Wed Jan 17, 2018 10:22 pmSeems to be a load of rubbish posted on detailing section?????
Phew - just as well I don't visit that bit of the forum! :lol:
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Post by coupedan » Sat Jan 20, 2018 9:26 am

I got this ad this morning at the bottom of the "spotted" thread.
iOS device.. apart from that, only have the usual Ad bars at the top and bottom of the forum page.

I didn't click the ad so can't tell you what the link is unfortunately.
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Post by sp3ctre » Sat Jan 20, 2018 9:38 am

coupedan wrote: Sat Jan 20, 2018 9:26 amI got this ad this morning at the bottom of the "spotted" thread.
iOS device.. apart from that, only have the usual Ad bars at the top and bottom of the forum page.

I didn't click the ad so can't tell you what the link is unfortunately.
That isn’t a pop up it’s a bug in the forum style and is displaying the Adsense advert incorrectly. That one is on my list to fix in the next upgrade.
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Post by coupedan » Sat Jan 20, 2018 9:42 am

Ah ok, cheers anyways :thumbsup:
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