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[Hall]

Over the past few days, every so often when I click the link I have in iGoogle for this site (http://satelliteguys.us/), I end up here, http://myfilestore.com/download.php?id=5636a6d4

Anyone else seen this happen ? At home, I use OpenDNS, so it could have been a DNS caching issue, but it's happening at work as well (no OpenDNS used here).

 

[KyDave]

Honestly that sounds like a browser redirect virus, I read about an issue like this a few months ago. Google myfilestore & virus.

 

[mike123abc]

It has been happening to me via yahoo bookmarks too. If I go back then click again it works. It is only every so often. I have been typing in the URL www.satelliteguys.us and it has always worked properly. It only seems to be yahoo bookmarks (and perhaps google ones too).

It is possible it is a vbseo issue

http://www.vbseo.com/blogs/rafael-b...direction-issues-what-caused-how-prevent-361/

 

[Hall]

Yeap, it looks like it's related to VBSEO. Does this site (still) use that ?

 

[Hall]

Happened again just a few minutes ago....

 

[lgball]

Has happened to me on two separate occasions on two separate machines. Looks like a name resolution hijack or something.

 

[chaddux]

Happened to me twice this week. Only occurring at SatelliteGuys. I took a screencap.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

We are not running vbseo. Got rid of it last year.

Sent from my iPhone using SatelliteGuys

 

[Frank Jr.]

Happened to me twice this week. Only occurring at SatelliteGuys. I took a screencap.View attachment 86769

I saw that once today myself. I thought I fat fingered something and just exed it out.

 

[mike123abc]

It keeps happening to me, but not very often (1-2x/day for the last few days).

It is like someone is trying to do an exploit but it is not very successful.

 

[Hall]

So it's not related to VBSEO. Enough people are seeing it when trying to visit THIS site that it's most likely coming from here...

 

[Hall]

Happened again moments ago....

 

[lgball]

Happened to me again just now. Seems like it's on the first visit of the day. Scott, this doesn't happen on any other site. I think the problem is on your end.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Been through everything here, and can't find anything. Nor is it happening to the majority of people who visit the site, so I am at a loss.

 

[Hall]

Seems like it's on the first visit of the day.

It does seem to be the first visit of each day when I see it as well....

 

[mike123abc]

Been through everything here, and can't find anything. Nor is it happening to the majority of people who visit the site, so I am at a loss.

I really think it has to be something to do with entering the site via a yahoo or google bookmark. I have not had it happen if I type the name or use the browser (chrome) bookmarks. It only happens when I access the site after I have been off of it for several hours via the yahoo bookmark.

 

[mike123abc]

I was able to reproduce in IE by going to yahoo, doing search for satelliteguys.us then clicking on the search result. Again it only happened the first time, and after that it did not happen again. I assume if I wait a few hours it will happen again. Now of course clicking on a search result notifies yahoo/google first so they know search rankings and what you clicked on, before actually going to satelliteguys.us, I think it is similar to how the bookmarks must work.

 

[eurosport]

Pardon me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't using the bookmarks in your pc's browser (I.E., Firefox, etc.) solve this problem, rather than using 3rd party search-engine bookmarks?

 

[dfergie]

I was searching for something HR24 related on Google this afternoon and a thread here came up that took me to that page instead, I backed out thinking I'd did something wrong then reclicked it and went to the thread ...

 

[mike123abc]

Pardon me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't using the bookmarks in your pc's browser (I.E., Firefox, etc.) solve this problem, rather than using 3rd party search-engine bookmarks?

The advantage of yahoo/google bookmarks is that they follow you when you make changes on all your computers.

That being said, the fact that it happens when people do a search on yahoo/google that leads them to this site is a pretty serious problem. Instead of coming here they find themselves downloading a virus. They back out and never try to come to this site again.

I know this site, so despite this problem I come back. New people will not do so. Something is corrupting yahoo and google search results and bookmarks for this site. Which makes me think there has been a subtle hack here. Something that is not affecting most people, just a few. When these sites send a user here, there must be something different than just the URL, it is probably something that indicates a referral. This is what is triggering this issue. This site must treat the referral different (could just be a statistic) and this is what is what has been corrupted.

I hate to say it but there is definitely a corruption here. It is not mainstream, and it is not affecting regular users that use browser bookmarks to get here. It is affecting those that come in via search and via third party bookmarks. Perhaps a gift left by the last hacker that broke in here.