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Safari getting hijacked on iPhone 4S!

  • 09-06-2012 7:05pm
    #1
    Faith
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,661 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Something pretty weird is happening today. When using safari to browse on my phone, I've intermittently been redirected to other websites, or they might just be ads. I thought I was hitting the ads on touch.boards.ie but it turns out I'm being sent to porn download sites. This hasn't ever happened before, but googling the address of one site I'm being sent to indicates that it's happening to a few others across the world recently. I updated a couple of apps this morning, but can't remember if it happened before the update or not. I've force quit Safari, cleared my cookies and data, and removed all website data. It's still happening randomly. I'm attaching screen shots below, and one of them is NSFW.

    Any ideas? I'd do a restore, only I haven't backed up my phone in a few weeks, and if I back it up now before the restore, surely the problem will keep happening if it's related to an app?


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  • #2
    johnny_ultimate
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 30,019 CMod ✭✭✭✭johnny_ultimate


    It's a problem with boards at the moment. Two threads about it over in Site Development: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?forumid=228

    The tech team are looking into it :)


  • #3
    Faith
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,661 Mod ✭✭✭✭Faith


    Thanks, I found one of those threads through google just after posting this! I check Site Dev earlier but there was nothing about it at that stage. Glad it's not just me :)


  • #4
    Creamy Goodness
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,584 ✭✭✭✭Creamy Goodness


    Apologies guys, this should never have happened, we have disabled ads on touch for the moment until we can get to the bottom of it (looks like it will be Monday though).

    Thanks for being understanding.


  • #5
    antodeco
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,631 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


    I wonder how many people have tried those sites now :D


  • #6
    Tazium
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 908 ✭✭✭Tazium


    I thought it was just me. Gave me a bit of a shock, I was worried that one of my new apps might be hijacking my sessions. I cleared out all cookies and history too just to restore relative normality to my browser


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  • #7
    Boards.ie: Neil
    Closed Accounts Posts: 503 ✭✭✭Boards.ie: Neil


    Creamy Goodness wrote: »
    Apologies guys, this should never have happened, we have disabled ads on touch for the moment until we can get to the bottom of it (looks like it will be Monday though).

    Thanks for being understanding.

    ugh late night posting not my forté. Guess this is me outed.


  • #8
    guil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,534 ✭✭✭✭guil


    Boards.ie: Neil wrote: »
    Creamy Goodness wrote: »
    Apologies guys, this should never have happened, we have disabled ads on touch for the moment until we can get to the bottom of it (looks like it will be Monday though).

    Thanks for being understanding.

    ugh late night posting not my forté. Guess this is me outed.
    Your avatar is fitting lol


  • #9
    Faith
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,661 Mod ✭✭✭✭Faith


    Boards.ie: Neil wrote: »
    ugh late night posting not my forté. Guess this is me outed.

    Not if you delete the thread ;)


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