Exploit Toolkit Website 33 Attack

I did an internet search 'redirected to Adult Friend Finder' and lots of stuff came up, apparently this particular redirection has been happening on all sorts of different sites for years.

I had a issue on my forum for a adsense coming from google that was for one thing, but redirected my members to porn sites. That was the last straw for me to disable it all together.

I have the advanced search page bookmarked and it pops up with an adult website when I click on the bookmark sometimes. I don't know if that helps at all.

I've just had my first issue with being redirected when trying to open FC. Here's a screenshot of what it tried to do. All it yielded was a blank page. Guess I'm not lucky enough to get sent to porn sites.

I got redirected to a full-screen video ad/site/webpage for Mobile Dates just now. I have a bookmark set to the "New Posts" link, so my first entry into the site is always the New Posts view. It caught me before the FC page came up, and has not happened again in my browsing, similar to others' experience.

I've been involved in internet tech for 20 years... I'm doubting that this is a Google Ads problem. Mostly I say that because is anyone seeing actual AFF Google Ads on the site? I have NEVER experienced this on ANY other forums/site of even a "mature adult conversations" nature, that runs Google Ads. Ever. I think there's definitely malicious software on the server. I say this mainly because the probability that we are all experiencing the same botnot or Trojan exploit is too small to countenance, and because we all are seeing the same thing, even though our internet browsing histories are different... so even if some of the users ARE being fed ads by Google based on their browsing, I, for example, have site tracking completely disabled, and cookies set for me to have to turn them on explicitly, manually, and by domain to even enable them. Even if I spent 3 hours a day on AFF (which I don't, I've never been there in my life), there would be zero record of that on my computer, and nothing for Google to justify throwing me that ad, really.

I am not sure your server techs are being forthcoming. Anytime you hear something called "toolkit", it smacks of a server-side trojan...

Interestingly enough I still haven't gotten an redirects myself from either this site or CornSnakes.com, which are both on this same server and both vBulletin sites. However, I have gotten redirects to AFF TWICE now from my CorvetteFlorida website which is not on this server, and is actually just a hosted domain with a completely different hosting service than who I have my leased server from. And, of course, no one really knows what is going on.

My programmer spend a lot of time last night working on this, and he says he feels the problem is in the server system code. Of course, the server techs are saying that they think it must be in the vBulletin code.

And here we are stuck in the middle.

Obviously there must be other sites and servers out there suffering the same problem, so I guess eventually someone will figure it out. In the meantime, it looks like my only two choices are to just grin and bear up under it, or else shut my sites down and walk away from the internet completely.

I just got it again when i came back to this thread to see new posts

So far, all that has happened to me is that I got redirected to the AFF site a couple times. I'm not really looking for an AF at the moment and if I was I sure as heck would not select one from their site, but other than a momentary waste of time that's all that happened.

I have been getting redirected to Adult Friend Finder all week on my iphone and am so frustrated that I stopped trying to look at Fauna when I am out of the house because of it. Now when I try to get into Fauna from my Mac laptop, it is trying to redirect me to porn sites. Does anyone know if the malware can affect Apple products as well as PCs? I am going to have to stop using Fauna if this is not fixed.

Got a screenshot this time.

No one blames you, Rich. You do the best you can to stay ahead fo the game and keep the forum shipshape. Hopefully the conversation can help us all find out and fix exactly where this is coming from.