"FLV Player" phishing? - About xda-developers.com

I googled (Firefox beta, SGN2, stock firmware) something about htc firmwares and clicked a link pointing to XDA. The correct page (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1529941) appeared for a few seconds then file download started (file was called FLV_Player_install.apk) and the browser was redirected to a page claiming (in Russian) that I have outdated version installed and I need to install an update (screenshot is attached). The page comes from domain blinko-mobile.com, domain owner info is hidden.
I'm sure that the apk contains some kind of virus.
I suspect this may be caused by some kind of injection in that topic.
I wasn't able to reproduce that by entering that page again.
Or it's not related to XDA and I should contact local law-enforcement authorities?

Equidamoid said:
I googled (Firefox beta, SGN2, stock firmware) something about htc firmwares and clicked a link pointing to XDA. The correct page (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1529941) appeared for a few seconds then file download started (file was called FLV_Player_install.apk) and the browser was redirected to a page claiming (in Russian) that I have outdated version installed and I need to install an update (screenshot is attached). The page comes from domain blinko-mobile.com, domain owner info is hidden.
I'm sure that the apk contains some kind of virus.
I suspect this may be caused by some kind of injection in that topic.
I wasn't able to reproduce that by entering that page again.
Or it's not related to XDA and I should contact local law-enforcement authorities?
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I just tried the thread linked above and I don't get anything about the FLV player. Not sure what it was that you clicked on there but it isn't here.
mikef
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mikef said:
I just tried the thread linked above and I don't get anything about the FLV player. Not sure what it was that you clicked on there but it isn't here.
mikef
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I can't reproduce it too %)
If there is no other reports about that stuff then it may be caused by my ISP. Russian cell operators are famous for swindle.
UPD
Got it again! The same page, other ISP (wifi at office), other phone (Sensation, Cyanogen, default browser). There is something weird happening.

Equidamoid said:
I can't reproduce it too %)
If there is no other reports about that stuff then it may be caused by my ISP. Russian cell operators are famous for swindle.
UPD
Got it again! The same page, other ISP (wifi at office), other phone (Sensation, Cyanogen, default browser). There is something weird happening.
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I got the same problem, on different devices, different websites. This is really weird.

DarkDvr said:
I got the same problem, on different devices, different websites. This is really weird.
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The same "flv player"?

Equidamoid said:
The same "flv player"?
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Yup. I'm in russia, so Im not suprised that it's in russian.
However, I am curious as to why I see this thing on many websites, not just xda, on several devices, and on both my home WiFi and mobile network. That's just really strange.

DarkDvr said:
Yup. I'm in russia, so Im not suprised that it's in russian.
However, I am curious as to why I see this thing on many websites, not just xda, on several devices, and on both my home WiFi and mobile network. That's just really strange.
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It seems that there is some legal app called FLV Player so I cant find something useful about the virus... Only a so-called virus for [email protected]: (oops, I cant post links).
I don't really want to believe in some kind of "backbone provider conspiracy" but...
Are you in St. Petersburg? Which cell carrier? Megafon?

Equidamoid said:
It seems that there is some legal app called FLV Player so I cant find something useful about the virus... Only a so-called virus for [email protected]: (oops, I cant post links).
I don't really want to believe in some kind of "backbone provider conspiracy" but...
Are you in St. Petersburg? Which cell carrier? Megafon?
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In Moscow, MTS.
I doubt it's a conspiracy. What I think it is is some dumbass banner system is ocassionaly feeding many websites with a banner, that in certain cases leads mobile users to a (most likely) virus-filled "update".
Since it seems to be specific for mobiles, and doesn't always happen, website owners probably have no idea about it.

DarkDvr said:
In Moscow, MTS.
I doubt it's a conspiracy. What I think it is is some dumbass banner system is ocassionaly feeding many websites with a banner, that in certain cases leads mobile users to a (most likely) virus-filled "update".
Since it seems to be specific for mobiles, and doesn't always happen, website owners probably have no idea about it.
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Banners are able to inject JS? That means that some bad guy can fake, for example, login form...

Related

Marketplace

I don't get it.
If I use the Android XDA app, the Marketplace is visible in General. Using a real browser however, it's not. A quick search for a link into the Marketplace rears a permissions error. And all of this without being registered. So what gives? Something I'm missing here?
nevezen said:
I don't get it.
If I use the Android XDA app, the Marketplace is visible in General. Using a real browser however, it's not. A quick search for a link into the Marketplace rears a permissions error. And all of this without being registered. So what gives? Something I'm missing here?
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what phone your using?
Oh, so it's now visible. After glancing through the rules/disclaimer it appears it'll become accessible after 8 posts for a noobjuice member. Clever.
nevezen said:
Oh, so it's now visible. After glancing through the rules/disclaimer it appears it'll become accessible after 8 posts for a noobjuice member. Clever.
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Good idea to read the Forum FAQ'S there is a lot in there that will help you
nevezen said:
I don't get it.
If I use the Android XDA app, the Marketplace is visible in General. Using a real browser however, it's not. A quick search for a link into the Marketplace rears a permissions error. And all of this without being registered. So what gives? Something I'm missing here?
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You need more posts and/or a longer membership (I can't recall the details).
Guess the Tapatalk app needs fixing .
Dave
nevezen said:
I don't get it.
If I use the Android XDA app, the Marketplace is visible in General. Using a real browser however, it's not. A quick search for a link into the Marketplace rears a permissions error. And all of this without being registered. So what gives? Something I'm missing here?
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It's not the app...we've changed the permission on the Marketplace to not allow access to a user until he/she has made 8 posts. That 8 post level is also the same point at which you can post links. It's just an anti-spam measure. We found people were registering at XDA just to spam the site or the Marketplace. This helps.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
This is good to know. Long time lurker and finally signed up so I could post in the marketplace but alas!
Can someone link to the rules for gaining access to the Marketplace? I have 8 posts but still cannot see it. Tried logging out and back in but still nothing
For a while there I thought I needed to check my eye sight. Makes sense now.
Hard to achieve 8 post if you have nothing to say or to discuss or if everything is so well explained that you do not need answers
Maybe you could add a waiting time also. Lets say after 4 weeks you get to see the market, I highly doubt anyone would wait 4 weeks just to spam something.
It doesn't make sense that you can view the Marketplace before you sign up (and then have it dissapear after you are a member).
oh!! so thats why i couldnt c the marketplace
I am new here. it seem that this is an useful forum.
welcome to forums
Once you become an active/regula user all XDA features will be unlocked and you will be able to post in marketplace, this rule is to protect us from spammers/scammers
Ah I was wondering why I wasn't able to see that deal I saw anymore... guess I'm off to ask more questions.
I have been on the site reading for 6 months now trying not to poste but now i need to use the market so here is my 8th poste thanks.
sweepstakes said:
It doesn't make sense that you can view the Marketplace before you sign up (and then have it dissapear after you are a member).
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Lol. Non-members can't see the marketplace anymore.
Trust me to say too much
As I said before:
Once you become regular/active members will see the benefit of having this
Meantime post and you´ll finally get access
Nice
Really smart security measure! I like it.
--XPiemaster
as long as its for security im all for it

Redirect to smartphonegirls.com

Hi all,
Since the last view days I randomly get redirected smartphonegirls.com when I am browsing to xda-developers forum with my android devices. It didn't really happen with my laptop yet so I don't know if catched smth like a virus or similar. However I truly doubt it as it happens with both my android devices and one of them was just freshly flashed.
Does any one else have this problem as well?
/schaze
schaze said:
Hi all,
Since the last view days I randomly get redirected smartphonegirls.com when I am browsing to xda-developers forum with my android devices. It didn't really happen with my laptop yet so I don't know if catched smth like a virus or similar. However I truly doubt it as it happens with both my android devices and one of them was just freshly flashed.
Does any one else have this problem as well?
/schaze
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I have never heard of this. Might be an app you have installed on the decices
Yes, I can confirm this and I could do without it as well. Any way to stop it?
We are trying to track this down right now... It appears difficult to reproduce though.
Is this over wifi or 3G? What provider do you have as well?
Got the same site and done some investigation here. Identified 2 sites ( wetter24.de and epicfail.com) where this site pop ups.
I downloaded an useragent modifier for firefox and switched it to android. Then I use http header to see where the redirect will be done or which object is responsible for it. It looks like that google ads could be the reason, because the ads are dynamically and probably a js will be execute the redirect.
Unfortunately I can´t exactly identify the object and today I got the page again.
---------- Post added at 12:58 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:51 PM ----------
BTW: The Company behind this, are known cheater.
Name: Simona Torre
Organisation: Buongiorno Spa
Adresse: Borgo Masnovo 2
PLZ: 43100
Ort: Parma, PR
Land: IT
Tomorrow I´ll contact lookout. Maybe they can us help here.
I was using ethernet at the time. Happens on my Android device but not on a normal pc with firefox
pulser_g2 said:
We are trying to track this down right now... It appears difficult to reproduce though.
Is this over wifi or 3G? What provider do you have as well?
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I never had it via 3G yet, but I mostly (>90%) use WiFi so I can't really rule that out.
Provider would be Vodafone Germany.
At least for me it only occures with my Android devices - I never experienced it with my Laptop (running Linux Mint 12 with latest FF version from repos 10.0.2)
On Android I have
SGSII with CheckROM RevoHD v6 & RedPill Kernel Rev1.3 (GB)
Acer Iconia A500 with Taboonay 3.1 ROM (ICS)
It happened with both devices so far. On the Acer it was actually when only had very few apps installed (which I don't think might be responsible for it as I used them since a long time)
What I also suspect is that it only happens when I am not logged in to the site. At least it never happened to me so far when I was logged in.
I hope this helps a bit. If there is anything you would like me to test, please let me know. I am happy to assist in any way I can.
/schaze
It just happened again.
Here is what I did (using WiFi)
searched in google search for xda developers
clicked on the result which actually leads to xda developers forum
wait until the site loads completely
just before it is finished loading the redirect occurs and I can see the sie with the FSK18 (thats an age classification - means you need to be 18 to see the content ...bla bla..9 red symbol warning
see attached screenshot.
my redicect actually goes to:[nourl]http://cat.m.smartphonegirls.de/wwf-splashTool/SEO/iGirls_wap_fsk18_kw14_16?transaction_id=10396fe92e93a57bca7eb007875b4e&path=SPOQ[/nourl]
Using Wifi is the only way that you can reproduce this.
Then what might be happening:
You normally connect through mobile webpages through your droid.
When you are on an open wifi connection, it lets alot more data flow in and out of your droid. Searching for xda and maybe clicking on a searched link will send you there first.
FIX: Save xda as your favorite or home page and it will go straight to the actual site instead of sending you through click.it links etc.
miked0602 said:
When you are on an open wifi connection, it lets alot more data flow in and out of your droid.
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Not quite sure what you mean with that...
miked0602 said:
Searching for xda and maybe clicking on a searched link will send you there first.
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I understand, but the redirect happens from xda-developers. I can see the xda url in the browser while XDA is loading (there is nothing preceeding it), the redirect occurs only at the end of loading the XDA developer page. So I don't think that problem is coming from the link I click to get to XDA.
miked0602 said:
FIX: Save xda as your favorite or home page and it will go straight to the actual site instead of sending you through click.it links etc.
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Or just cancel further loading before the redirect occurs.... It is no big issue which keeps me from using XDA - But my main concern was that it was actually happening at all and I wasn' t sure if I catched smth on my devices or if it is a general problem.
I could reproduce this on xda-developers.com. Unfortunately I can´t post the headers because its not allowed for me to post urls.
If the xda-developers admins like to have the entire header stack just give me a short message. Really strange thing.
The same happens, randomly as well, with the site androidcommunity.com. Both with the android bowser and chrome beta. This is f.... annoying. Any ideas how to avoid this?
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using XDA App
I am having the same problem on my Samsung Galaxy Nexus with AOKP Milestone 4 and on my Acer A500 with flexreaper r9. I used my Bookmark to the A500 Development Forum wich works fine on my Desktop PC. I am using WiFi (Provider T-Online Germany). The Forum Page is loading completely but after a few seconds i am redirected to
http://cat.m.smartphonegirls.de/wwf...n_id=103ed278c8e4b502abdf1aeb1eee1c&path=SPOQ
Gesendet von meinem A500 mit Tapatalk
Same problem here. It appears when i open the xda-portal site on my galaxy nexus.
It doesn't matter if i connect via wifi or 3g.
Very annoying:/
Hopefully you can ban this site.
I have this Problem also.. with 3G ans wifi.
I' m using aokp ob mx galaxy s
We are continuing to see what can be done, as it looks like an external issue affecting other sites too
@Mod:
Could you merge this thread with http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1536791 ?
pulser_g2 said:
We are continuing to see what can be done, as it looks like an external issue affecting other sites too
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I figured out the related redirect. But I cant post it due to url policies. It comes from...
"tracking.kissmyads.com"
If you want the details give me a short info.
Have uploaded the headers for review.
Had the same experience today with Opera Mobile on the "Cyanide & Happiness" page (webcomic). Looked at the latest strip and redirected as soon as the page was fully loaded. Didn't happen on the built-in browser though.
Tried setting the user agent from mobile to desktop and it seems to have fixed it. Switched back to mobile for testing and didn't get the ad again yet. Hopefully that helps.

Intrusive ads? Post here!

The internet is full of advertisments and let's face it, almost every site that has an ounce of traffic uses ad revenue. The intention of xda is not to burden its members with ads that distract from the user experience. With that being said, if you have a problematic ad, please take a screenshot of the ad and post here so admin can take care of it. right now, that is the solution in place.
Thanks for your help in keeping XDA "intrusive ad free".
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It doesn't happen all the time but I have this "mobprizes" redirect when visiting XDA.
Happened to me a few times so far, not sure if others are experiencing it.
Same as chazam ^^^^
First instance of it today. Web URL is mobprizes.com and the site header says 'Android Rewards'. Tried to browse XDA via Dolphin browser on Android and was auto-redirected to this spam page; you cannot press 'Back' or 'Exit' in the browser and have to click 'OK', whereupon another window opens asking you to enter your mob number (supposedly so they can contact you to sort out sending you your prize - which if you do a quick search on Google means you will receive plenty of premium rate text messages and no prize!).
Not sure what you folks can do but thought would mention it.
Incidentally, when performing a search re: this, one of the replies was on Yahoo Answers - when I clicked on this I was redirected to the same damn Android Rewards page!
I also noticed another forum in the search results is experiencing the same thing. Seems to be spreading.
Attached.
That ad at the bottom left corner just popped up from nowhere. I may not have captured it completely sry...
Edit: it's an IE rollover to view ad.
Hey everyone,
I have also created a forum where people (including myself) are experiencing similar problems.
Perhaps it would be a great idea to share our knowledge between the two forums and see what we can do to get rid of these annoying ads.
would of if i didnt have ad block
chazam said:
It doesn't happen all the time but I have this "mobprizes" redirect when visiting XDA.
Happened to me a few times so far, not sure if others are experiencing it.
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Same.
ok, as i got no response in the other thread, here's a repost of an intrusive ad i got the other day:
as you can see they were even trying to impersonate XDA's theme to trick you into thinking it was a legitimate XDA page?
omniwolf said:
as you can see they were even trying to impersonate XDA's theme to trick you into thinking it was a legitimate XDA page?
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The JS alert window looks like that, since FF4.0. Type javascript:alert('test message') into the address bar.
Please remove this
I'm not really bothered by the ads so i dont need an ad blocker but this 'IE rollover to view' ad is being a pain in the rear.
Pls get rid of it.
Thanks.
Edit: started using ad blocker
i clicked a reply notification from an email sent by the forum
this is the page it took me to
i blanked out my location to stop aliens tracking me
No offence meant to anyone here, but I'm quite surprised at all of this. Adblocks for Chrome and Firefox are available easily, nobody uses IE anymore and if you're on XDA you probably have a rooted phone and should logically therefore have an adblock app. If you really dislike ads, there's no need to put up with them
Nigeldg said:
No offence meant to anyone here, but I'm quite surprised at all of this. Adblocks for Chrome and Firefox are available easily, nobody uses IE anymore and if you're on XDA you probably have a rooted phone and should logically therefore have an adblock app. If you really dislike ads, there's no need to put up with them
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Those without adblocks are doing xda a favour i guess.
roofrider said:
Those without adblocks are doing xda a favour i guess.
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Don't the ads only work if you click on them? As fas as I know nobody actually clicks on the ads unless it's by accident to disabling them doesn't really have a negative effect on the site
Nigeldg said:
Don't the ads only work if you click on them? As fas as I know nobody actually clicks on the ads unless it's by accident to disabling them doesn't really have a negative effect on the site
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I dont click on them, but there are a few which act weird when the mouse hovers over them accidentally. Like this one.
New Avast is too annoying, will be migrating our thousands of customers off it
I'm going to haveto agree with the OP in this one.
The advertising is becoming annoying and the re-registering method has been made to be difficult to see where the free option is...
Quickfix I disagree with you, this product is the most popular free Antivirus not because of bull**** advertising, but because of word of mouth!
Now instead of here's a great free AV the word is here is a great free AV with intrusive ads...
nvm
trm, please delete this post
+1
Intrusive pop-ups "mobprizes" visiting XDA with my mobile phone...
there were a lot of problems when you tried to access the page from your phone from germany the porn ads were awful
abel06 said:
+1
Intrusive pop-ups "mobprizes" visiting XDA with my mobile phone...
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I just had the same thing. I click on 'OK' or whatever it said when i should probably have just used the back button. It took me to the mobprizes thing which is clearly a scam. Hopefully just being taken to the site but not clicking anything wont have installed any malicious (i've literally no idea about android malware/viruses etc.).

[Q] mobgifts.org (Possible browser hijack)

I open up Chrome to go visit xda on my Galaxy Nexus (Stock, Unrooted, converted to yakju through this thread), and I get a popup and redirected to mobgifts.org
I've attached a screenshot of this scam. I'm a little concerned that I may have somehow gotten hijacked...
BlueBagodah said:
I open up Chrome to go visit xda on my Galaxy Nexus (Stock, Unrooted, converted to yakju through this thread), and I get a popup and redirected to mobgifts.org
I've attached a screenshot of this scam. I'm a little concerned that I may have somehow gotten hijacked...
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I am getting this too, it started a couple of weeks ago, at first I thought it was a pop up from the site I had been visiting, but now it's happening with other sites. I am on a stock rom bell Canada Galaxy S II. Anyone have any ideas?
I have done some further testing and have discovered that the site hijack only comes up for me when I go to http://xda-developers.com .
It doesn't matter if I'm on wifi or cell data. I did a full factory reset, as well as re-flashing 4.0.4 again, and right after first boot, it still redirects me. I've even tried it without letting Android restore my phone.
Is it a problem with my phone, or with the xda site?
BlueBagodah said:
I have done some further testing and have discovered that the site hijack only comes up for me when I go to http://xda-developers.com .
It doesn't matter if I'm on wifi or cell data. I did a full factory reset, as well as re-flashing 4.0.4 again, and right after first boot, it still redirects me. I've even tried it without letting Android restore my phone.
Is it a problem with my phone, or with the xda site?
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I got it on XDA as well but I am getting it on other sites with increasing frequecy, for example, icefilms.info, and demonoid.me. I dont think it's an issure with just the xda website
It's just a clever popup on the internet. A lot of people here will see it because a lot of people visit XDA.
There is nothing wrong with your phone and no need to panic or wipe.
There was also a thread about this yesterday.
uhhhhhhhh It's more than just on xda, I think it's a little more than just a clever pop up too.
Druter said:
uhhhhhhhh It's more than just on xda, I think it's a little more than just a clever pop up too.
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its just the ad supplier that multiple sites use.
Druter said:
uhhhhhhhh It's more than just on xda, I think it's a little more than just a clever pop up too.
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I didn't say it was just XDA. I said a lot of people on this forum will see it because they visit XDA. It isn't infecting your phone with anything, it is a popup.
On the internet.
Could you post the link to the thread.
Any idea of how to get rid of it?
Druter said:
Could you post the link to the thread.
Any idea of how to get rid of it?
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When I find the link, sure.
You can get rid of it by not using the internet.
joshnichols189 said:
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You can get rid of it by not using the internet.
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Not very helpful
Druter said:
Not very helpful
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Except it's true.. it is a popup ad.
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It's been reported on iphones too, so you aren't being targeted by an internet ad.
yeahhh, I think you're wrong on this one
Druter said:
yeahhh, I think you're wrong on this one
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Then what do YOU honestly think is happening?
actually what I meant to type is I think you're right on this one, had a bit of a brain fart
Druter said:
actually what I meant to type is I think you're right on this one, had a bit of a brain fart
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Fair enough haha. Here read this, there's some plausible causes.
http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/uzpb8/when_did_this_start_happening/
Here is the other thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1706480&page=2
I'm starting to think that it's Google Adsense serving these ads to people. All of these sites almost all use Google Adsense in some form to back fill ads.
This is happening to both Android and iPhones - only through mobile browsers. My guess is that this shady ass advertiser is targeting mobile browsers through Adsense.
From what I can tell, the ads are somehow attached to a site called blueAds.com, at least that's where they redirect from.
joshnichols189 said:
Except it's true.. it is a popup ad.
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It's been reported on iphones too, so you aren't being targeted by an internet ad.
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Not to say that I'm glad to hear, but at least there's some corroboration. I tried to do some research, and the whois record isn't helpful, and all that comes up for any search on mobgifts is a site called downocean(or something like that).
My Scam alarms just started going off.
I concur on that point, a lot of the searches on this topic. Bring the downocean name up again and again. Especially when you type how do I get rid of. Its definitely got some javascript going on, when I turn JS off I don't seem to get the the pop ups.
joshnichols189 said:
I didn't say it was just XDA. I said a lot of people on this forum will see it because they visit XDA. It isn't infecting your phone with anything, it is a popup.
On the internet.
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I wonder if browsers such as opera show pop ups.

Infinite ads - no back button

I have written this on the main interface page and received no answers.
On some pages I get to a point where no matter how many times I click on the back button, the page goes nowhere. When I long click on the back button it shows a list and there are pages of the same link that has the word ads in it. If I click on the bottom item in the list and long click on the back button again, the same list comes up. If I do this several times, I finally get to where I was to navigate to the page.
While I haven't actually taken the time to count, I am sure that there are over 40-50 page listings that come up from one page with only a few messages.
I am using IE9 and I want to know what I can do to stop this overtly evil behavior. I fully understand the need for ads but I don't see any good reasoning to hijack my page. If I click on a link in the page, I can then go back to normal. It doesn't happen on every page, just sometimes.
Since my bookmark to this site is on IE9 and not Chrome or Firefox and since I navigate to this site only on my desktop, I don't get the problem elsewhere. This behavior is only on this site. Some sites open pop under windows (also evil) and pop up windows (annoying) but this one really gets me angry.
Again, how does one get this bad beharior to stop???!!!
Please help:crying:
I just went back to the offending page and several times it only had two instances of the ads link. I then went to Chrome and it didn't happen at all. I know there is evil here because it is related to advertising. Is someone posting hiding something here? Is the site doing this to me? Is it an attack on IE because of the anti microsoft sentiment?
Why Why Why???
I'm done. I'm hoping for some answers now.
Sorry about the rant. I have to use IE because it is what my non technical wife is used to and the always there bookmarks on the left are important. We also have land line becasue she won't give it up.
Ummm. Don't think your in the right place dude. You'd be better off searchin ms support or at least using a windows forum. This is Android!
But to try to help, sounds like a browser hijacker, or malware. You need to run scans with malwarebytes, spybot, hijack this, anti-virus....you get the idea.
Sorry I can't help you more than that. Good luck
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I've run my AV software MS Security Essentials. It only happens on this site. I first wrote to the website forum and received zero answers. Since this site is populated with very tech aware people, and I visit this forum (I now own a S3) almost exclusively, I thought I would try here.
I know that it is off topic, but since it only happens here I thought I would try here next. I also have a request in the Chrome forum as to how to get the left side bar bookmarks there.
Thanks, I hope it doesn't get deleted until I at least get some answer. I won't post here on this subject until someone asks me to qualify my question.
If you haven't already, download and run malwarebytes. Its one of the best and can find tons of stuff that regular AV can't.
As for bookmarks, if it comes to it there are utilities you can use to back them up. Then uninstall/reinstall IE.
You can also import bookmarks from/to chrome.
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Dude, this is an Android forum not a PC forum, what's wrong with you?
You have a virus or some serious malware.
Do a fresh install of windows, problem solved, stop being such cry baby.
Yikes this is a forum for mobile android phones not windows.
Like everyone has suggested use malwarebytes, it is free!
Antivirus software rarely pick up malware.
Use spybot search and destroy
Install spyware blaster to avoid future such problems
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Lol android android
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sandiegoan said:
I have written this on the main interface page and received no answers.
On some pages I get to a point where no matter how many times I click on the back button, the page goes nowhere. When I long click on the back button it shows a list and there are pages of the same link that has the word ads in it. If I click on the bottom item in the list and long click on the back button again, the same list comes up. If I do this several times, I finally get to where I was to navigate to the page.
While I haven't actually taken the time to count, I am sure that there are over 40-50 page listings that come up from one page with only a few messages.
I am using IE9 and I want to know what I can do to stop this overtly evil behavior. I fully understand the need for ads but I don't see any good reasoning to hijack my page. If I click on a link in the page, I can then go back to normal. It doesn't happen on every page, just sometimes.
Since my bookmark to this site is on IE9 and not Chrome or Firefox and since I navigate to this site only on my desktop, I don't get the problem elsewhere. This behavior is only on this site. Some sites open pop under windows (also evil) and pop up windows (annoying) but this one really gets me angry.
Again, how does one get this bad beharior to stop???!!!
Please help:crying:
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While looking for another solution (to another problem) I found your post. The same thing happened to me today on this site.
The problem is not your PC, nor your browser and is not a malware issue either. In fact, it's from a script that is specifically designed to disable the browsers' back button. You see, the back button does not generate any revenue towards pay-per-click and/or similar schemes. Click-throughs, however, will...
Chances are that one of the page ads loaded the script (usually java) and set a cookie as well (to prevent one from replicating the problem).
Closing the browser window is about the only way to get around it. Holding the pull-down for the back-button only shows numerous versions of the same page.
Other browsers have plugins that can prevent the script from running in the first place and/or block the ads entirely.
If it keeps happening then you should contact one of the Forum Mods.
Hope this helps.
sandiegoan said:
I've run my AV software MS Security Essentials. It only happens on this site. I first wrote to the website forum and received zero answers. Since this site is populated with very tech aware people, and I visit this forum (I now own a S3) almost exclusively, I thought I would try here.
I know that it is off topic, but since it only happens here I thought I would try here next. I also have a request in the Chrome forum as to how to get the left side bar bookmarks there.
Thanks, I hope it doesn't get deleted until I at least get some answer. I won't post here on this subject until someone asks me to qualify my question.
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ipaq_101 said:
Dude, this is an Android forum not a PC forum, what's wrong with you?
You have a virus or some serious malware.
Do a fresh install of windows, problem solved, stop being such cry baby.
Yikes this is a forum for mobile android phones not windows.
Like everyone has suggested use malwarebytes, it is free!
Antivirus software rarely pick up malware.
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Maybe you should've read a bit closer on this one. It is only happening to him on this site.
thechocowarrior said:
this thread should be moved or deleted lol.
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Can't delete or move unless we happen upon it (like I just did) or you report it. Not like we have filters that send us PMs whenever someone types Delete or Move. Doesn't work that way, fellas. Sorry
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At OP, if you are still having problems with the site, got to the main XDA page and flag an admin to check out your issues. Plus you could search there and if no results pop up or no one else is having the issue, there error could be between the chair and keyboard. If you want this to remain open, it is your choice but you will have better luck in the main XDA section, rather than the SGS3 section.
Shoot me a PM if you want it closed. If no PM by morning my time, then it is gone.

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