To Site Admin: KT might have a virus

[jimsea]

FWIW I get multiple redirects when I try to logon to Kahr Talk.

[jocko]

so far I have seen none of that on my end. might be in ur system, as I haven't heard this from other members--yet.. Just sayin

[deadeye]

No problem here.

[bob98366]

Logged on this afternoon with no issues.

[JFootin]

Since April 1, I have been seeing smilies in strange places. I had seen this once before several months ago. Look at these screen prints.

On every post, the Multi-Quote is replaced with Hat Tipper and the button to the right is replaced with Busy.
http://i1230.photobucket.com/albums/ee486/John_England/Misc/Bug1_zps8d721089.png

On the post edit window, the Hyperlink button is replaced with A/A and the list expand buttons are replaced with slider looking things.
http://i1230.photobucket.com/albums/ee486/John_England/Misc/Bug2_zps8a0b1228.jpg

All of these items perform correctly, even though they don't look right.

[jocko]

Heh JFootin, when u see these strange smilies is this before or after u finish the bottle of Jim Beam:? Jusst asking.

[muggsy]

I've gotten one redirect each time that I tried to logged on today. On the second attempt I've always gotten through.

[jimsea]

I've gotten one redirect each time that I tried to logged on today. On the second attempt I've always gotten through.

Exact same thing here. Just started a few days ago.




















.............which porn sites are you visiting, we might be able to narrow this thing down to a particular site. (joke) :D

[O'Dell]

I log on two or three times a day and have never had a problem.

[RRP]

I've gotten one redirect each time that I tried to logged on today. On the second attempt I've always gotten through.


Exact same thing here. Just started a few days ago.


Exact same thing here, too. It never happened before this week. I suspected it was caused by a link I accessed from this site, but I didn't know that for certain. Given that others have had the same problem, I'm quite confident that's how I got infected.

Anyway, there's an easy fix. I cleared cookies and the redirects stopped immediately.

I have always configured my browser (Firefox) to automatically clear cookies whenever I close the browser. But the offending site changed the configuration. Restoring my privacy settings resolved the problem.

I have since installed, updated, and run Malwarebytes. Full system scans are coming up clean. I also ran a scan in Safe Mode to be sure. I think I'm good to go.

[MW surveyor]

No problems for me................................................ ............I don't open blind links :)

[jimsea]

Got rid of the cookies.......no more redirects.

Thanks.

[ESAFO]

everytime i click a link to review threads i get this, it only happens the 1rst time i click the link.
when i go to click the link again it goes directly to the thread i'm wanting to view.
it started last week & i thought nothing about it, but it's still doing it.. :32:




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[Armybrat]

Which porn sites you guys been surfin'?

[ESAFO]

Which porn sites you guys been surfin'?

i can't give up all my info.. :D
seriously though this is the only site it happens on. :confused:

[JFootin]

Got rid of the cookies.......no more redirects.

Thanks.

Got rid of the cookies and no more smilies in strange places.

[ESAFO]

Got rid of the cookies and no more smilies in strange places.

i've done that twice with my laptop since this started happening & i still get the same thing everytime i try to get on.
like i said before it's only happening on this forum.

[mr surveyor]

ESAFO

I know the feeling, but in my case it was a disaster event. I don't think you are in meltdown stage if this is the only site you have a problem with. Recently I ran the Windoze update, then started having problems on the Marlin forum. I checked their computer/tech issues sub-forum and found that others were experiencing problems too. The cure was to go to your "Tools" drop down menu and click the "compatibility view" button. After you do that, you will have to log on again with your user name and password, but it's worth a try.

surv

[ESAFO]

ESAFO

I know the feeling, but in my case it was a disaster event. I don't think you are in meltdown stage if this is the only site you have a problem with. Recently I ran the Windoze update, then started having problems on the Marlin forum. I checked their computer/tech issues sub-forum and found that others were experiencing problems too. The cure was to go to your "Tools" drop down menu and click the "compatibility view" button. After you do that, you will have to log on again with your user name and password, but it's worth a try.

surv

k i'll try that thanks.
the odd thing is when i clicked the link in my e-mail to go to this thread, it did'nt show this time so i'll give it a whirl & see what happens.

[CJB]

I used to get a lot of redirects - its not a virus on the site. It has to do with google, and the way they are running things. If you click the google link... sometimes it redirects. Its total BS, but if you get to the site directly... it works like a champ, every time.

[Tinman507]

It is most definitely not a Google problem. It IS a redirect script that's been stuffed into one of the numerous config or php files of Kahrtalk.

I have had this issue several times on a couple of the websites I do and it only happens when going to the site through a google search.

A hacker has gotten access to some of the files and planted malicious code into one or (likely) many more files.

A short Google search of this issue reveals a possible solution at the Vbulletin SEO forum http://www.vbseo.com/f3/security-issue-41463/

[MW surveyor]

Why is this still in RKBA!

[johnh]

Wish this was in tech support as I would have seen it sooner. I will get on it. I am not seeing it myself, and was not able to replicate, but you never know.

[Tinman507]

John,

I was able to replicate one time. Then no more. It acts like a browser hijack inject found it's way into a php file of config file.

Edited to add: Just now tried to go to Kahrtalk through Google on a different computer and ended up on myfilestore.com. so apparently it sets a cookie.

Additional edit: Clear cookies, then Google search Kahrtalk. Click on the link and you end up at MyFilestore.com. Happens with Bing as well.

[ESAFO]

John,

I was able to replicate one time. Then no more. It acts like a browser hijack inject found it's way into a php file of config file.

Edited to add: Just now tried to go to Kahrtalk through Google on a different computer and ended up on myfilestore.com. so apparently it sets a cookie.

Additional edit: Clear cookies, then Google search Kahrtalk. Click on the link and you end up at MyFilestore.com. Happens with Bing as well.
thank you atleast i know i'm not going crazy now, because thats exactly what was happening to me when i copied & pasted in this thread to show as a example.

[Bawanna]

I'm feeling just a bit chilly today myself, you think I got it too?

[jimsea]

Fwiw the redirects continue and occur with several internet devices/locations, ipad, phone, and computer. There is an imbedded code on KT that redirects to other sites. Happens on initial visit to KT, but not subsequent visits.

[johnh]

The hosting company scanned our system and confirmed we are clean. This is an issue at Google's end. They are somehow feeding a redirect from a past instance when the site was infected. The host changed some settings to force Google to update this info.

[jimsea]

This is an issue at Google's end. They are somehow feeding a redirect from a past instance when the site was infected. The host changed some settings to force Google to update this info.

You may have something there..........just accessed KT via Yahoo and zero redirects. Yahoooooo.

[dkmatthews]

Hats off to Tinman & Johnh for diagnosing & solving the problem. Hats off to the OP for posting about it.

:yo:

[Tinman507]

Hats off to JohnH. He's the guy who ran this one down.

[jimsea]

.....ahhhhhh shucks. Yahoo is redirecting now. :confused:

[ESAFO]

yes it is 1rst time i tried to get on today i got redirected, the next time it was fine.
the past 2 days were ok until today, this is really confuseing... :mad:

[Tinman507]

Be very sure to clear all cache and cookies off your machine. This thing is setting a cookie on your computer. Given that it's some form of malware, do not allow it to stay on your machine.

From now on, bookmark kahrtalk and only come here through the bookmark and not through search engines.

This will be tracked down and fixed, but it's a real chore doing so. Hang in, johnh will get it sorted.

[jimsea]

Cache and cookie deletes I do regularly. Just bookmarked KT. I'll report tomorrow.

Edit: 4/13 BOOKMARKING definitely eliminates the redirects. Thanks.

[johnh]

Tracked down to an issue with VBSEO. Should be resolved shortly.

[dkmatthews]

Tracked down to an issue with VBSEO. Should be resolved shortly.

You rock, sir!

Sent from my SGH-T999 using Tapatalk 2

[ESAFO]

Tracked down to an issue with VBSEO. Should be resolved shortly.

thank you John, so far so good on my end got logged in no problem.

*UPDATE* i take back what i stated earlier, just got another redirect @ 8:06pm..

[jimsea]

thank you John, so far so good on my end got logged in no problem.

*UPDATE* i take back what i stated earlier, just got another redirect @ 8:06pm..

Find your way to the site by whatever means and then "bookmark" it. Then in the future you just click your bookmark to come here. No more redirects.

[ESAFO]

Find your way to the site by whatever means and then "bookmark" it. Then in the future you just click your bookmark to come here. No more redirects.

i have done that in my favorites, it happens when i click the thread link via e-mail.
when somebody posts in a thread i'm subscribed to i get a e-mail notification, i click that link & thats when i get the redirect but it does'nt happen everytime.

[RRP]

For what it's worth, I never access KahrTalk via Google, or any other search engine, and I have been troubled with redirects. Clearing cookies after each KT visit controls the annoying redirects.

[bulletdodger]

I've got it a few times too. Another two links pop up instead.

[Glock23]

I use tapatalk exclusively to read forums, so I have no redirect issues... however, this forum consistently marks forums / sub forums / posts / etc as being read, when I haven't actually read them yet.

And it's only this forum that does it... all others on my tapatalk list work fine.

[wyntrout]

This current problem seems to be getting worse. I can't do anything but read posts with Firefox. With Chrome I can do a little with work arounds. I just clicked on my screen name went to my info page. I saw that some quotes had been turned into the code equivalents and clicked on edit to fix that. In the text window all of the code was showing so I backed out before I screwed anything else up!:eek:

Wynn:)

[Bawanna]

Picture test. I don't see any of the issues mentioned. Ooops, I do see I can't click on a smiley.

But I can post a picture.

Technology, can't live with it, and can't live without it.

[JFootin]

Bawanna, you did that using the "Attach Files" feature, which I have never used. But I just found some workarounds:

To post hot links, just surround the address with "url" and "/url" in blocks.

http://s1230.photobucket.com/user/John_England/media/My%20Custom%20CM9/KahrCM9PolishedLSwMagandBullets.jpg.html?sort=6&o=4

To post a picture, just surround the address with "img" and "/img" in blocks.

http://i770.photobucket.com/albums/xx346/yt82lic/obama-christ_zps3e321bd6.jpg (http://media.photobucket.com/user/yt82lic/media/obama-christ_zps3e321bd6.jpg.html)

And a smily: http://kahrtalk.com/images/smilies/modern/smilies/spider.gif

[Bawanna]

With all that knowledge and ability that's the best picture you could come up with?

[dkmatthews]

With all that knowledge and ability that's the best picture you could come up with?

Clearly, he ain't Tinman. He still gets good marks for effort, though! :D

[RRP]

this forum consistently marks forums / sub forums / posts / etc as being read, when I haven't actually read them yet.


That has been a problem for me, as well, using Chrome. The inconvenience is exacerbated because the <Today's Posts> utility is now missing from <Quick Links>.

[JFootin]

That has been a problem for me, as well, using Chrome. The inconvenience is exacerbated because the <Today's Posts> utility is now missing from <Quick Links>.

Ditto. ^

[Bawanna]

Hmmmm, I have a Today's Post until I log in, then I don't have a Today's post but have a New Post which is what I always use anyhow.

I've had a few try to PM me and I get a message but nothing in it, just whatever was there before like a reply.

[dkmatthews]

That has been a problem for me, as well, using Chrome. The inconvenience is exacerbated because the <Today's Posts> utility is now missing from <Quick Links>.

Ditto, also. ^

Sent from my SGH-T999 using Tapatalk 2

[lamppa]

:)
;)

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8188/8128124486_ae6bedd287.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/63928389@N07/8128124486/)
550600_422597471128861_1572583041_n (http://www.flickr.com/photos/63928389@N07/8128124486/) by lump_digity (http://www.flickr.com/people/63928389@N07/), on Flickr

[lamppa]

two smileys and a picture.
suck it ametuers.

[07Dually]

I've had a few try to PM me and I get a message but nothing in it, just whatever was there before like a reply.

I am having the same problem!?

[wyntrout]

What really sucks is that you can type pages and hit Post Quick Reply... and it's just all gone... been there, done that too many times! It really sucks when you've typed a few pages:rolleyes: and you try to post it and get a message saying that your message needs to be at least 3 characters... and your entire post is gone! Been there, done that... too many times!

I hope this gets fixed soon. Chrome sucks because I only use it in emergencies! I don't know much about it!

Wynn:(

[RRP]

Hmmmm, I have a Today's Post until I log in, then I don't have a Today's post but have a New Post which is what I always use anyhow.

I've had a few try to PM me and I get a message but nothing in it, just whatever was there before like a reply.

Same here, Bawanna. I can see Today's Posts until I log in, then it disappears. Until recently, Today's Post was under a pull-down menu in Quick Links. Now when I click on Quick Links, I no longer get a menu, but the page does refresh and the toolbar changes to display different menu options; none of which are Today's Posts.

Like you, when the site is working properly, I use New Posts almost exclusively. However, now that threads are being marked as read, before I actually read them, Today's Posts would be handy to bring up recent thread activity.

I believe vBulletin displays Today's Posts by default. That's why we see it before we log in. But after we log in, the configuration settings are applied, and that's when Today's Posts disappears. That would suggest there have been changes made to KahrTalk config settings which may be related the the recent wave of problems.

A week ago, there were reports of redirects occurring. Now the problems are increasing. I'm betting the two are related and that KT is the victim of some malicious code. Good luck to the tech crew trying to pinpoint the problem. I wouldn't know where to start looking.

[ESAFO]

is it just me or are others still getting re-directs :mad:

[Tinman507]

It's baaaaaack.
Only on a Google search.
Bookmark it and come here directly.

[ESAFO]

It's baaaaaack.
Only on a Google search.
Bookmark it and come here directly.

it's a habit of mine to just click the link in my e-mail directly to get to this site, i'm like a old man & i'm set in my ways & don't like change.... :31:
LOL

[johnh]

On it. This only comes up with a Google search. It was VBSEO last time, so not sure yet on this one.

[Tinman507]

Can you scan the database? That's usually where it hides. It self replicates even after deleting the offending component.

[johnh]

Same thing as last time. Seems to be one group that likes us.