Aggravating ad popping up on iPad

[Lilaena De'Ville]

It keeps sending me to the App Store to buy a music app I've never heard of when I'm trying to navigate the main forums page. And tonight I got some ad page for the same app.

i took screenshots, bear with me.

[Droo]

This isn't limited to mobile devices either. I'm getting this too on my desktop computer.

[Aurelias Kazaar]

I've noticed it, as have a few others. We keep getting redirected to either another site or the iPhone App Store on Apple devices. Any reasons for this?

[Morgan Evanar]

wth.

Looking into it.

[Zem Vymes]

Every other page load on fans sends me to the App Store for a music player program called torch or something. Definitely super annoying

[Milivikal k'Vik]

Found out where it has been inserted but I'm not sure how.

Edit: found it. What the hell.

[Loklorien s'Ilancy]

Ah, so this would explain why my phone randomly opens the app store to some ringpop app when I'm trying to browse the forums.

[Dasquian Belargic]

This has never happened to me O_o

[Lilaena De'Ville]

Do you spend any time on the main forum page?

edit: is this where we tell everyone to change their passwords because of that thing that all the tech places are freaking out about?

[Loklorien s'Ilancy]

Changing passwords wouldn't help if the code is still in there, it will just make your new password as ineffective as the last. That's even if this is heartbleed though.

[Vince]

I always navigate back and forth from the main forums page, but I've never seen this particular ad. I have seen the vBulletin pop up when navigating here on my phone. I don't know why I haven't gotten it and y'all have... maybe it's my adblock plus extension.

[Droo]

Can't be that, Vince. I have Adblock Plus running too. What browser are you using?

[Kazahan]

Latest Firefox out; at least I think so, as it updates automatically, so I stopped checking.

[Emelie Shadowstar]

Oh thank god it wasn't just me. I kept getting this on my iPhone as well

[Lilaena De'Ville]

Changing passwords wouldn't help if the code is still in there, it will just make your new password as ineffective as the last. That's even if this is heartbleed though.
I didn't mean that they were connected (although maybe they are? I don't know) but with heartbleed out there we should change our passwords anyway, right?

[Loklorien s'Ilancy]

Heartbleed is a bug, in that it's a mistake with the actual code itself rather than something that's been added. So no, this here wouldn't be heartbleed. As I said before however, changing passwords on a site that does have heartbleed will do no good. Since the problem is with the initial code itself, you can certainly go ahead and change your password, but it will do no good as the new password you created will be as worthless as the one you had.

Here's (http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/04/09/301006236/what-to-do-now-that-the-heartbleed-bug-exposed-the-internet) a good article about it that includes links to sites that have testers.

[Rutabaga]

Malwarebytes started giving me pop-up warnings here a few days ago and, in general, has successfully blocked IE from flipping me over to the fishy pages. It's happened on Chrome as well. I'm just glad to know it's not just me.

[TheHolo.Net]

This is concerning information...

[Kei'suke Zendu]

It happened to me once, but I was using my netbook at my parents house. Without Ad Block Plus on the browser.

[Darth Turbogeek]

Never seen it. Forefox ESR, Adblock, Ghostery.

[Rutabaga]

I haven't seen it for at least a couple of days now.

[Dasquian Belargic]

Has this been resolved?

I've still never experienced it personally

[Lilaena De'Ville]

Morgan took care of it, but no one reported on whether the weakness that was exploited to put it there was taken care of or not...?