Twitter being blocked

Condatis

I have had this problem for the last week.

I try to log into www.twitter.com and as I type or as I hit 'enter' the address changes to "thedirectory.ie" – there is no way into twitter from there.

That site is rubbish and it's blocking me from twitter. What I have to do in find a reference to twitter – here or somewhere else – and click on that.

I never used the site so there was no cookie, this makes me suspect that the diversion is a deliberate attempt to drive traffic to a site that can't get it any other way.

ScumLord

Sounds like malware, Download malwarebytes.org and run a scan. I'd check your antivirus too it should catch things like that. Maybe report thedirectory.ie to google as a possible disreputable site that's using malware to generate traffic.

Condatis

Thanks.

After my last post here I turned on Private Browsing in Safari to try and interdict the diversion for thedirectory. I then went into twitter in the roundabout way that I described earlier and disabled the 'remember me button'.

That appears to have fixed the problem though it means that I will now have to log on each time that I want to use twitter.

MiCr0

same issue for https://www.twitter.com ?

what isp are you on?

what do you get when you do an nslookup on your pc for www.twittter.com ?

Condatis

MiCr0 wrote: »

same issue for https://www.twitter.com ?

what isp are you on?

what do you get when you do an nslookup on your pc for www.twittter.com ?

I'm using eircom. I never heard of nslookup before. I was just keying in www.twitter.com but as soon as I had keyed in the 'w' I was presented with thedirectory site. The workaround as I've described above has interdicted the diversion. With the 'remember me' button disabled I can now go directly into twitter; but I really shouldn't have to do that.

How is nslookup used? I use a Mac.

jakedixon2004

Condatis wrote: »

I'm using eircom. I never heard of nslookup before. I was just keying in www.twitter.com but as soon as I had keyed in the 'w' I was presented with thedirectory site. The workaround as I've described above has interdicted the diversion. With the 'remember me' button disabled I can now go directly into twitter; but I really shouldn't have to do that.

How is nslookup used? I use a Mac.

Can you try and get to the site via this : http://www.daveproxy.co.uk/ ?

chicken fingers

To do micr0s suggestion:

in console type

nslookup twitter.com

Its the same in a mac as in windows. Im sure theres a network GUI tool for it also but console is easier.

Condatis

chicken fingers wrote: »

To do micr0s suggestion:

in console type

nslookup twitter.com

Its the same in a mac as in windows. Im sure theres a network GUI tool for it also but console is easier.

This is all helpful and interesting, thank you.

But what is meant by "in console type"? I tried putting that into the address line but it didn't work.

ScumLord

Condatis wrote: »

This is all helpful and interesting, thank you.

But what is meant by "in console type"? I tried putting that into the address line but it didn't work.

Console is on your computer. in windows 7 click start and use the search box to find a program called cmd.exe.

Fluffy88

In Mac I think it's actually called Console or it might be called Terminal and it's under the Utilities folder in your Apps(I think, I don't use Mac often).

It should be a big black window with white writing. Type in the command exactly as chicken fingers posted and hit enter to run it.