As the title says: I keep getting redirected to some shady online casino. I'm not even clicking ads or anything - MMORPG just forwards me to the casino.
Its not Mmmorpg, unfortunately you have a nasty bit of malware at play.
Not necessarily true. I've been re-directed to one of those bogus "You have a virus, download this program to get rid of it" sites 2 or 3 times in the past week. It's only happened on this site and it happens randomly when reading forum posts. I regularly run virus checks and malware/spyware checks and my system is clean.
It's only this site redirecting me and it only just started this morning. I should mention it redirects me to a german casino so I believe it targets only a minority of the people on this site.
Either way, scanning my laptop now just to make sure.
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Take a look at the Blogs section. There's a spammer advertising an online gambling website. If it's the same website you might mention that in any reports. I've been reporting these spammers for about 3 days now. The blogs are slowly being removed.
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Take a look at the Blogs section. There's a spammer advertising an online gambling website. If it's the same website you might mention that in any reports. I've been reporting these spammers for about 3 days now. The blogs are slowly being removed.
Wow I didn't even know we had a blog section. Wtf would want to read that? lol But more seriously: I can't tell if it's the same since I closed the opening site asap.
However I do think I read the word Domino which I can see on the blogs so maybe there really is a relation.
Also as general update: My virus scanner didn't find anything and I haven't been redirected since this morning. So either the problem solved itself or Admin ninjaed the bad guys already.
Morning here and it happened again. This time I was forwarded to one of those sites that count clicks and it actually had the nerve to complain about me using adblocker. 'Please whitelist us now or the owner of the site will not receive the money for your click'
Its not Mmmorpg, unfortunately you have a nasty bit of malware at play.
Not necessarily true. I've been re-directed to one of those bogus "You have a virus, download this program to get rid of it" sites 2 or 3 times in the past week. It's only happened on this site and it happens randomly when reading forum posts. I regularly run virus checks and malware/spyware checks and my system is clean.
I've had the exact same bogus "You have a virus, download this program to get rid of it" redirect happen yesterday while I was reading a thread with my hand off the mouse. Ad Block on too. MMORPG.com has some serious problem with malware running through their ads.
It seems they can't keep their ads under control so I will not be coming back. I will not be missed.
That's why I'm running an ad-blocker 24/7. You don't know what's in the ad and more than once it's been proven that there's some mallware hidden in the scripts behind the ads. Then I'm not even mentioning the amount of overhead most ads on sites take...
Its not Mmmorpg, unfortunately you have a nasty bit of malware at play.
Not necessarily true. I've been re-directed to one of those bogus "You have a virus, download this program to get rid of it" sites 2 or 3 times in the past week. It's only happened on this site and it happens randomly when reading forum posts. I regularly run virus checks and malware/spyware checks and my system is clean.
I've had the exact same bogus "You have a virus, download this program to get rid of it" redirect happen yesterday while I was reading a thread with my hand off the mouse. Ad Block on too. MMORPG.com has some serious problem with malware running through their ads.
It seems they can't keep their ads under control so I will not be coming back. I will not be missed.
Yup, it happened to me again yesterday. I have AdBlock Plus running at all times too. I was in the middle of reading a thread, hadn't even clicked on anything and the re-direct happened.
Its not Mmmorpg, unfortunately you have a nasty bit of malware at play.
Not necessarily true. I've been re-directed to one of those bogus "You have a virus, download this program to get rid of it" sites 2 or 3 times in the past week. It's only happened on this site and it happens randomly when reading forum posts. I regularly run virus checks and malware/spyware checks and my system is clean.
I've had the exact same bogus "You have a virus, download this program to get rid of it" redirect happen yesterday while I was reading a thread with my hand off the mouse. Ad Block on too. MMORPG.com has some serious problem with malware running through their ads.
It seems they can't keep their ads under control so I will not be coming back. I will not be missed.
Yup, it happened to me again yesterday. I have AdBlock Plus running at all times too. I was in the middle of reading a thread, hadn't even clicked on anything and the re-direct happened.
AdBlock (plus) is no longer a trustworthy ad blocker. The advertiser can pay them to let their ads come through. Just imagine how malware criminals would abuse that...
I'm surfing pretty save in a 'custom' ad blocker integrated in the Opera browser (which also supports native VPN). Opera has no such policy that they can be paid to allow ads to come through. Opera has always been about the privacy and security of the user, and their ad blocker & VPN just shows exactly that...
I use no adblockers and have been visiting this site several times a day since Bill was in school getting bullied. Have never been redirected ir anything.
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Regular adblock is much better than the plus version, I'm not even sure it's made by the same people. Stands, is good and has an addon that lets you set how many ads can be allowed.
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I should mention it redirects me to a german casino so I believe it targets only a minority of the people on this site.
Either way, scanning my laptop now just to make sure.
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Just trying to live long enough to play a new, released MMORPG, playing New Worlds atm
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But more seriously: I can't tell if it's the same since I closed the opening site asap.
However I do think I read the word Domino which I can see on the blogs so maybe there really is a relation.
Also as general update:
My virus scanner didn't find anything and I haven't been redirected since this morning.
So either the problem solved itself or Admin ninjaed the bad guys already.
This time I was forwarded to one of those sites that count clicks and it actually had the nerve to complain about me using adblocker.
'Please whitelist us now or the owner of the site will not receive the money for your click'
I've had the exact same bogus "You have a virus, download this program to get rid of it" redirect happen yesterday while I was reading a thread with my hand off the mouse. Ad Block on too. MMORPG.com has some serious problem with malware running through their ads.
It seems they can't keep their ads under control so I will not be coming back. I will not be missed.
I'm surfing pretty save in a 'custom' ad blocker integrated in the Opera browser (which also supports native VPN). Opera has no such policy that they can be paid to allow ads to come through. Opera has always been about the privacy and security of the user, and their ad blocker & VPN just shows exactly that...
@Admin Since I'm not the only one getting this you may have to slap the wrists of a few villains again.
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