Ads on forum contain malware

by Scorpio2 February 1st 2020, 10:13 pm

It has been brought to my attention by a forum user that while using the forum they have received the following message.

Malicious Site Blocked!
You attempted to access:
https://www.adexchangeguru.com/script/i ... QiQWfkG51S
This web page is a known malicious web page. It is highly recommended that you do NOT visit this page.

Visit
Norton

This has been a reoccurring issue on our forum and we believe that it is due to the advertisements that are hosted on the forum due to the fact our forum is a free one and i have have purchased any additional packages.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

by **skouliki** February 2nd 2020, 1:51 am

Please provide your forum URL

by Scorpio2 February 2nd 2020, 1:58 am

skouliki wrote:Please provide your forum URL

http://theunidentified.forumotion.com/

Sorry, here it is

http://theunidentified.forumotion.com/t1231-lime-lady-wf-18-25-found-near-jones-ok-18-april-1980-identified-as-tamara-tigard
This particular thread is where the warning came from if that helps

by **SLGray** February 2nd 2020, 3:32 am

Is this exactly happening to all members or just certain ones? After doing some research, I found out that adexchangeguru. could be a redirect (virus): https://malwaretips.com/blogs/remove-adexchangeguru-com/

by **skouliki** February 2nd 2020, 7:23 am

when i open your forum (firefox, chrome / Kaspersky ) I don't get any warnings

by **SLGray** February 2nd 2020, 7:32 am

I also do not encounter any issues loading your forum.

P.S. You need to remove what you have in your profile for the forum field.

by Scorpio2 February 3rd 2020, 6:32 am

SLGray wrote:I also do not encounter any issues loading your forum.

P.S. You need to remove what you have in your profile for the forum field.

Sorry for the late response.

The member is still having issues with the threads.

Ads on forum contain malware LDgGcLF

This warning is what appears.

Also, what do you mean by removing what i have in my profile for the forum field?

Thanks!

by **skouliki** February 3rd 2020, 8:05 am

he means that in your profile details here only forumotion forums must be added

by **The Godfather** February 3rd 2020, 4:00 pm

Hello,

The team is working on this problem in order to exclude the domain adexchangeguru.com. It should be online in few minutes, please let us know if the impacted members continue to have the issue.

If yes, can you give us:

- The link of the page where we can reproduce the problem.
- The country of the member.

by Scorpio2 February 5th 2020, 5:03 am

skouliki wrote:he means that in your profile details here only forumotion forums must be added

Oh, thanks for letting me know that. I had no idea, but how do i get rid of that? I went into edit profile but i couldn't figure it out.

by Scorpio2 February 5th 2020, 5:07 am

The Godfather wrote:Hello,

The team is working on this problem in order to exclude the domain adexchangeguru.com. It should be online in few minutes, please let us know if the impacted members continue to have the issue.

If yes, can you give us:

- The link of the page where we can reproduce the problem.
- The country of the member.

Thank you so much! I will relay this information to the member and see if they are having the problem still.