Is Clutchfans BBS redirecting to a sponsers webpage?

everything working fine for me in internet explorer.

 

I'm on firefox and I'm not getting anything.
As you said, it might be spyware.

 

Kim

it IS adware on your machine.

I would be very surprised if it doesnt happen on other pages as well.

 

I'm facing the same problem as Kim. I haven't seen it on other pages as yet. I'm using Firefox too. I have run Spybot search and Destroy,but occasionally it still pops up. Can you give me some suggestions what should I do? Should I switch over to Internet Explorer?

 

i had the same problem last night, and it was only on this message board. i ran adaware and ccleaner and so far today i havent seen it return. i use firefox 3 btw.

 

It's been so far so good today for me too.

 

considering the responses, Im gonna guess that one of the ads that was being displayed *may* have been a shady one, one that randomly redirects to a diff page.

Ive heard of that happening before, one slipped by the adsense/google people and was sending people to other sites. Those ads arent supposed to do that, so afaik it rarely happens.

Keep us posted if it happens again, try to notice the site or ad that is showing when it happens and report back...that will help in determining what the issue is.


EDIT: oh, and for god's sake, dont switch from FF to IE
remember.....FF >>>>> IE

 

Thank you very much!

 

This was happening to me too yesterday. Then it stopped for a while and then it started again late last night.

At first it was only happening in Safari but not Firefox, then it was happening in both.

Of the 30 or so sites I visit regularly, this was the only one that was redirecting. No problems so far today though.

 

Also, I googled the address it was redirecting to and saw that the Lakers fan site and a few other sites had had the same problem previously with redirecting to that address.

 

I've been getting a lot of Lane Bryant ads.

I'm not fat, nor a chick.

 

I keep getting ads for:
Simply Marry

The ads don't do anything harmful, but they need to rotate the faces beyond the same 3 - 4 that they keep showing.

 

I have been redirected a few times as well. Worse than the dancing chick!

But eh, this site hasn't historically been bad for ads like the others I go to.

 

This site's never been bad at all when it comes to stuff like this. I'd live with all the pop-ups, banner ads, whatever. It's the redirect that sucks.

The other night when it was really bad, I saw a thread I wanted to click on and I tried for 30 minutes just to see what it said -- every time being kicked off of this site immediately -- before giving up.

Whatever was happening was not the result of any sort of normal ad behavior. It was a spammer. But it's been fine for more than 24 hours so hopefully it's over.

p.s. To the FF 3.0 user who wasn't having problems, I'm using 3.0 too. Most likely you just weren't trying to access the site when it was going on. It was only for a few hours at a time.

 

As Houston Rockets fans, we are lucky that the fan site is being administrated by someone with such great integrity.

 

I think one of the banner ads expand whenever my mouse scrolls over it.

 

I think this site has an a-hole re-director and it's sending a-holes to another site.

Wait.....what just happened to my screen? What site is this?

 

Just got redirected again. There's still roaches in joes apartment.