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Die4Ever
Profile Joined August 2010
United States17691 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-11-01 00:22:52
November 01 2015 00:15 GMT
#1
Just recently it seems every page on TL is popping up this dialog saying that my flash player plugin is out of date, and then it tries to redirect the user to download some probably harmful exe file at
http://184.173.28.176/adobe_flashplayer_7.exe (don't go there lol it's probably a virus, athough their server seems to be having troubles)

I have TL+ so it shouldn't be an ad causing this, I think it's coming from your ad providers javascript though, so it works even if no ads are displayed. Turning on adblock doesn't seem to fix the issue.

It happens in Incognito mode as well, so it's not just my user account or anything like that. This is showing up on every page I've tried.
"Expert" mods4ever.com
qwA
Profile Joined November 2015
3 Posts
November 01 2015 00:21 GMT
#2
Same happened to me for a few minutes, on Firefox. I don't even have flash.
GinDo
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
3327 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-11-01 00:23:43
November 01 2015 00:22 GMT
#3
Happening to me too. I turned ON ad block and it stopped appearing.

EDIT: page keeps loading though
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Die4Ever
Profile Joined August 2010
United States17691 Posts
November 01 2015 00:26 GMT
#4
On November 01 2015 09:22 GinDo wrote:
Happening to me too. I turned ON ad block and it stopped appearing.

EDIT: page keeps loading though

I do not believe adblock fixes it, I think it's just the server is getting hammered and taking a while to load this malicious script.
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scott31337
Profile Joined January 2013
United States2979 Posts
November 01 2015 00:30 GMT
#5
Me too! I thought I got infected, but if you guys are seeing it too, I feel better. TL got infected instead
THIS WAGON IS HITTING MAFIA FOR SURE BOYS!
Die4Ever
Profile Joined August 2010
United States17691 Posts
November 01 2015 00:33 GMT
#6
everyone should go here
https://www.google.com/safebrowsing/report_badware/

and report the url, just copy paste this url into the form
http://184.173.28.176/adobe_flashplayer_7.exe
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Shock710
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Australia6097 Posts
November 01 2015 00:41 GMT
#7
right then a couple of seconds before i could not visit any Tl pages because of this "upgrade plugin" thing, i know not to click it so i close the box and it still redirected me....
its seems to be gone now but im gonna scans on my comp now....zzz
also it seems when the flash thing does pop up it causes the ads to die they just dont load
dAPhREAk gives Shock a * | [23:55] <Shock710> that was out of context -_- [16:26] <@motbob> Good question, Shock!
Epishade
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
United States2267 Posts
November 01 2015 01:16 GMT
#8
Uhh I clicked it. What should I does?
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Die4Ever
Profile Joined August 2010
United States17691 Posts
November 01 2015 01:36 GMT
#9
On November 01 2015 10:16 Epishade wrote:
Uhh I clicked it. What should I does?

did it download a file? Don't run it, just delete it, it would be named adobe_flashplayer_7.exe
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Die4Ever
Profile Joined August 2010
United States17691 Posts
November 01 2015 01:38 GMT
#10
seems to be fixed
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Epishade
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
United States2267 Posts
November 01 2015 02:50 GMT
#11
On November 01 2015 10:36 Die4Ever wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 01 2015 10:16 Epishade wrote:
Uhh I clicked it. What should I does?

did it download a file? Don't run it, just delete it, it would be named adobe_flashplayer_7.exe

No, it just took me to a website but the webpage didn't load.
Pinhead Larry in the streets, Dirty Dan in the sheets.
aRyuujin
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States5049 Posts
November 01 2015 03:10 GMT
#12
i also got this a bunch
can i get my estro logo back pls
Die4Ever
Profile Joined August 2010
United States17691 Posts
November 01 2015 03:26 GMT
#13
On November 01 2015 11:50 Epishade wrote:
Show nested quote +
On November 01 2015 10:36 Die4Ever wrote:
On November 01 2015 10:16 Epishade wrote:
Uhh I clicked it. What should I does?

did it download a file? Don't run it, just delete it, it would be named adobe_flashplayer_7.exe

No, it just took me to a website but the webpage didn't load.

you're safe then, as long as you don't run the exe it tried to download lol
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c3rberUs
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Japan11286 Posts
November 01 2015 03:30 GMT
#14
I just cleared my history and it was gone. Thought I'd share it
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R1CH
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
Netherlands10341 Posts
November 01 2015 04:36 GMT
#15
Thanks for letting us know, seems this was a bad ad. Not quite sure why this applied to TL+ users, that definitely shouldn't have happened.
AdministratorTwitter: @R1CH_TL
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SetGuitarsToKill
Profile Blog Joined December 2013
Canada28396 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-11-01 11:09:50
November 01 2015 11:06 GMT
#16
I getting a very similar issue on mobile TL. When I try to use TL on my phone, sometimes it automatically redirects me to an obvious malware/virus download page which then makes my phone buzz and asks me to "update Android" in broken English. This only has happened when using TL. It started a few days ago and at first I thought it was a virus on my phone, but several virus checks proved it wasn't and when the Flash thing came about I realized it was only happening when I used teamliquid.

I'll include some screenshots of the websites. The main one seems to be a site called cellphone-tips.com
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I'm no expert, so I don't want to say TL is hacked or compromised or anything, but the fact that it exclusively happens on this site is extremely worrying and suspicious.
Community News"As long as you have a warp prism you can't be bad at harassment" - Maru | @SetGuitars2Kill
R1CH
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
Netherlands10341 Posts
November 01 2015 18:29 GMT
#17
I did find a few places where TL+ was still loading ad scripts (no ads were actually displayed, just the tag manager). These came from Google and comScore which should be reputable so I'm still not sure why TL+ users were also affected. I removed the unnecessary ad tags which should also make the page a tiny bit faster for TL+ users.
AdministratorTwitter: @R1CH_TL
TL+ Member
scott31337
Profile Joined January 2013
United States2979 Posts
November 01 2015 18:57 GMT
#18
Thanks R1CH for all the hard work you do
THIS WAGON IS HITTING MAFIA FOR SURE BOYS!
R1CH
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
Netherlands10341 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-11-01 21:35:23
November 01 2015 21:34 GMT
#19
Seems a 3rd party analytics company we use to measure adblock rates was compromised through a phishing attack. We're going to remove their code for all users.

http://blog.pagefair.com/2015/halloween-security-breach/
AdministratorTwitter: @R1CH_TL
TL+ Member
SetGuitarsToKill
Profile Blog Joined December 2013
Canada28396 Posts
November 07 2015 10:15 GMT
#20
On November 01 2015 20:06 SetGuitarsToKill wrote:
I getting a very similar issue on mobile TL. When I try to use TL on my phone, sometimes it automatically redirects me to an obvious malware/virus download page which then makes my phone buzz and asks me to "update Android" in broken English. This only has happened when using TL. It started a few days ago and at first I thought it was a virus on my phone, but several virus checks proved it wasn't and when the Flash thing came about I realized it was only happening when I used teamliquid.

I'll include some screenshots of the websites. The main one seems to be a site called cellphone-tips.com
+ Show Spoiler +
[image loading]
[image loading]
[image loading]


I'm no expert, so I don't want to say TL is hacked or compromised or anything, but the fact that it exclusively happens on this site is extremely worrying and suspicious.

Bumping to say that I encountered this again. It went away for a few days. Perhaps this is on my end though, but it happened again when using TL
Community News"As long as you have a warp prism you can't be bad at harassment" - Maru | @SetGuitars2Kill
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