Unwanted redirects.....

[jacko]

Intermittently, when trying to access the Pattaya Talk website, I am being redirected to

URL4SHORT.INFO

It seems to happen when I click a link within my Yahoo homepage which should take me to

http://www.pattayatalk.com/forums/..... not every time though.

i read around a bit and it is being suggested the problem lies within google at the server level. A redirect on the search engine. Running Firefox under Vista . Anybody know whether there is an issue on my machine?

 

Up to date on my virus stuff and a full scan recently.

[MM]

From this article, it sounds like your computer is infected or settings have been modified to route traffic to the website.

 

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/google-redirect-virus-removal.html

 

A google search on "URL4SHORT.INFO VIRUS" brought up a lot of hits.

[CheshireTom]

It seemed to be happening on Google links. Clearing my cache appears to have fixed it (at least for now).

[short]

Abort Vista for 7 to start with.

 

That link is to help me find

FLB.

[jacko]

Not just me then.

Tried some of the items suggested link from MM, Proxy stuff changed, nothing else.

Have to see how it goes.

 

Gimme a break Short!

Edited December 15, 2013 by jacko

[Billions]

Yep,it's happening when trying to get here from Google. Happened a couple of times a week ago also.

[jacko]

I thought it had gone away but it is still doing it!

[MM]

It happened to me this morning after a Google search that resulted in a hit for PattayaTalk. When I clicked on the link into PattayaTalk, I was sent to that dodgy site.

Hmmm.

[MM]

Someone could...try another search engine and see if it happens with its search results.

[steamer]

hasn't happened to me. I go straight to 'view new content' just as my bookmark is set up.

 

I'm using Chrome.

[jacko]

Someone could...try another search engine and see if it happens with its search results.

Didn't happen when I used Bing, although it doesn't happen every time I come in from my Yahoo Page shortcut!

[nus01]

icome in via favourites straight to view new posts

 

 

I just tried google , using Firefox and had no problems using google link

Edited December 16, 2013 by nus01

[MM]

I can't get it to happen again, even used exact search term for Google to get links

 

[briar]

I noticed this last week.

 

If you type "pattaya talk forums" into Google search, the link returned takes you to some other site.

 

I tried bing and yahoo and the search returns a correct link to the forums.

[jacko]

And again today per OP.

Early 18th too.

Edited December 17, 2013 by jacko

[jacko]

Abort Vista for 7 to start with.

 

That link is to help me find

FLB.

Happens on my Windows 7 Laptop too!

Still getting this, there was a Firefox update today, I wonder if that will fix it.

 

No, still get it, mostly a morning thing????

Edited December 21, 2013 by jacko

[MM]

The problem is with the invision software being hacked in a very sophisticated fashion. I received instructions from Invision on how to fix the problem, have followed their instructions.

 

So, if you still have a redirect to URL4SHORT.INFO, please let me know in this topic.

[jacko]

The problem is with the invision software being hacked in a very sophisticated fashion. I received instructions from Invision on how to fix the problem, have followed their instructions.

 

So, if you still have a redirect to URL4SHORT.INFO, please let me know in this topic.

Had it again a few minutes ago..... any chance your repairs have a delay?

[Evil Penevil]

My Norton protection suite caught some attempted re-directs about mid-December, but there haven't been any further attempts for about 10 days (using Windows 8 and Chrome).

 

Evil

[MM]

Had it again a few minutes ago..... any chance your repairs have a delay?

Maybe it's in the mysterious cache for PattayaTalk.

I'll check again.

Thanks for the feedback.

Merry Christmas!

[jacko]

And again this AM.

I am suspicious the problem also has something to do with Yahoo.

[MM]

Turns out there was a piece of code that was reinfecting the web page periodically. I'd clean the page and then 4 or 5 hours later, it would be infected again.

 

I deleted any old code that wasn't being used and now it seems to have stopped the reinfection.

 

It should be okay now.

 

Let me know if it still happens.

[jacko]

Turns out there was a piece of code that was reinfecting the web page periodically. I'd clean the page and then 4 or 5 hours later, it would be infected again.

 

I deleted any old code that wasn't being used and now it seems to have stopped the reinfection.

 

It should be okay now.

 

Let me know if it still happens.

A couple of checks yesterday and today ..... so far no issue.

Sounds like it was a clever one.....

[MM]

A couple of checks yesterday and today ..... so far no issue.

Sounds like it was a clever one.....

More clever than me.

 

The file got reinfected again..it took longer, but is not fixed yet.

 

Damn!

[jacko]

I am sorry to spoil your New Year so soon... but this happened again this AM.

I repeated the soe and arrived at Pattaya Talk fine second time around.