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Redirected to dodgy sites from Chrome and Twitter?

  • 10-12-2015 9:29pm
    #1
    deadanonymau5
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,875 ✭✭✭


    I was on Twitter and clicked a link from BusinessInsider's twitter to an article on their site and was redirected to gameofoffers.com. It brought me to a webpage saying Android was not updated and gave steps to install an app (Obviously a dodgy one) Had a pop up as well, when I tried to go back and couldn't exit the app. This all happened in the native in-app web browsing.

    I thought Id check out the same page on the Chrome app and same thing happened only I was brought to apple.com-news.press saying I won an iPhone 6s. Then when I hit back pop ups came on. I tried again and the same thing happened only I was brought to antivirus.com-alert.xyz . I think Chrome stopped it and I was brought to a page saying "Deceptive Site ahead. Attackers on antivirus.com-alert.xyz may trick you into doing something dangerous like like installing software or revealing your personal information." There was also a box that I could tick saying "Automatically report details of possible security incidents to Google. Privacy policy" and a button saying "Back To Safety"

    I had to close down/exit the apps through the screen where it shows what apps are open. Im on Three and was on my mobile.

    Anyone else brought to the same sites? Have similar experiences? I saw on the Apple forum, some users were having similar issues


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  • #2
    deadanonymau5
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,875 ✭✭✭deadanonymau5


    Bump, anyone?


  • #3
    long_b
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,947 ✭✭✭long_b


    deadanonymau5 wrote: »
    Bump, anyone?

    You're followng this, yeah?
    http://touch.boards.ie/thread/2057531915/1


  • #4
    thesandeman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,778 ✭✭✭✭thesandeman


    Was getting all that stuff during the week when I went on AccuWeather using Boat browser on 3. Didn't happen today though so maybe they've caught up with it.


  • #5
    deadanonymau5
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,875 ✭✭✭deadanonymau5


    long_b wrote: »
    You're followng this, yeah?
    http://touch.boards.ie/thread/2057531915/1
    I am indeed
    thesandeman wrote: »
    Was getting all that stuff during the week when I went on AccuWeather using Boat browser on 3. Didn't happen today though so maybe they've caught up with it.

    What device are you using?


  • #6
    thesandeman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,778 ✭✭✭✭thesandeman


    Moto G2. Boat browser. It hasn't happened since, but I had it every time for four days. I presumed it was a problem with AW.
    Are you still getting it?


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  • #7
    The boarder
    Registered Users Posts: 76 ✭✭The boarder


    This happens allot on facebook


  • #8
    dahat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,830 ✭✭✭✭dahat


    The boarder wrote: »
    This happens allot on facebook

    Disable the internal browser in Facebook settings. This helped an awful lot for me.


  • #9
    deadanonymau5
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,875 ✭✭✭deadanonymau5


    thesandeman wrote: »
    Moto G2. Boat browser. It hasn't happened since, but I had it every time for four days. I presumed it was a problem with AW.
    Are you still getting it?

    I havent clicked on links on twitter since. I might check soon if it still happens.
    dahat wrote: »
    Disable the internal browser in Facebook settings. This helped an awful lot for me.

    I think it still happened for me when I didn't use the internal browser on Twitter


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