Jaimito Cartero

If IB disabled the ads until they finally figure this out, then you'd stopping freaking out the poor folk who are getting these alerts.

h15t0r1an

I had a popup like that with chrome. Also flyertalk seems to freeze and hang just in last week or so which it never did before. I have all ads blocked normally.

dioxide45

Don't click on any buttons, you can click the X in the upper corner, but that doesn't help either. You need to open task manager and end the Internet Explorer task/application.

twobyte

This is not a flyertalk problem. I have been getting these fake virus warnings for about a week now. I have had them on the Game Show network. gsn.com, and I have had them on facebook. They have to be coming from advertisements. I just did a new install of Windows XP and all the paches with a new copy of AVG and I still get them. I'm going to have to start browsing with my linux box.
I like to play jacks or better poker on gsn.com and the only thing that changes when I'm playing is the advertisements
on the side bar. I can be playing for 30 min on the same page and get this when the advertisements change.

It is not Flyertalk.
Twobyte

Djlawman

It IS Flyertalk ads. I (and dozens of others who have reported here) have not gotten it from any other site. It is some ad they are accepting on FT, which is running a script which takes over the entire page.

HawaiiTrvlr

I just got rid of IE and got Google Chrome. I don't know why I didn't get that browser before now. All I know is I have been surfing different sites and no popups. I assume that will also take care of the issue of the false virus noticed on FT. I will keep you posted.

By the way, IE sucks and Google Chrome rocks (so far).

hilmar

+1 - It is ABSOLUTELY flyertalk. I work in the industry, and I do not have this problem anywhere else. It is very, very concerning and shows a severe lack of security on the flyertalk site.

hilmar

Actually Ctrl-W closes the window(s) with no problem. But no, don't push any buttons!

FSU

I am extremely annoyed the way FlyerTalk is handling this problem. This has been going on for almost a week, and I have seen no mention of it except in this forum. No warnings or explanations on the home page or any of the other forum pages. I am assuming this is causing great concern to many members who don't come to this thread. A recommendation to switch browsers is not enough. I sincerely hope that the administrators come up with a solution or at least a warning to other members.

OverThereTooMuch

Agreed. If they can post a sticky in all forums when they want us to vote on some meaningless poll somewhere, they can certainly do it for something like this.

Also, there have been multiple suggestions that they shut down individual ad providers for a day or two in an effort to identify the source. That seems like a reasonable option.

Or they can do a better job of collecting data from the people that are reporting it so that they can work to identify the ad faster. If nothing else, that would make it look more like they were actively investigating

username

For those who get the Norton warning, does it happen when the false virum message pops up on IE? Or, Norton comes up when you actually click a button inside the message's dialogue box?

Thanks.

LiviLion

Could you not turn off adverts for all users instead? Then for some test users leave ad's on and disable the feeds one at a time until you work out the offending provider.

Once it's identified turn adverts back on.

I have been forced into manually blocking all adverts from your site currently which I do not like doing as I realise you get paid based on users taking products via the links and I like to try and do my bit to help.

I'm amazed at the lack of updates to this serious problem here TBH.

LiviLion

For anyone new to this thread using IE9 then you can use the above link to block the ad's, not just for this site but for the majority of sites. Once the problem is rectified you can turn it off

Snowdevil

All due respect Paul, there clearly IS malware on FlyerTalk, or at very least, something behaving like malware to scare users into action.

Now, you may not have approved it, you may not appreciate it, you may not want it here, but it's here, and it's coming in from an ad on your site.

Therefore, it IS "your problem."

I would hope you and your team would address this issue head-on and notify your community about this - which just impacted me a few minutes ago! - by prominently displaying a warning about this issue until you are 100% certain it has been resolved and the offending ad removed from circulation by the vendor supplying your ads.

Otherwise, you're going to rapidly lose credibility with your users.

Just my $0.02 worth, of course...

MoneyBagger

Hi

Just my two pennies worth here...

But I too have been getting redirects to several Polish websites (http://urlquery.net/report.php?id=105702) with fake Microsoft Security Essentials alerts. This is happening only when I try to access FlyerTalk.com via the address bar autocomplete history or via a Google search.

At first I believed I was infected with some form of malware, but after extensive testing and experiencing the problem on two seperate computers, it is now clear that for some reason it is coming from FlyerTalk.com. I have asked some IT experts if they can figure on exactly why this is happening, so will post on here any information I get.

For the admins: Do you have any advertisers located in Poland/Turkey that could have implemented some malicious script into your site? The IP address everything seems to be originating from is 31.210.109.37. Hope this helps.