Aggravating ad popping up on iPad

***Lilaena De'Ville*** · Apr 9th, 2014, 08:51:37 PM

It keeps sending me to the App Store to buy a music app I've never heard of when I'm trying to navigate the main forums page. And tonight I got some ad page for the same app.

i took screenshots, bear with me.

**Droo** · Apr 9th, 2014, 09:04:12 PM

This isn't limited to mobile devices either. I'm getting this too on my desktop computer.

**Aurelias Kazaar** · Apr 9th, 2014, 09:06:14 PM

I've noticed it, as have a few others. We keep getting redirected to either another site or the iPhone App Store on Apple devices. Any reasons for this?

***Morgan Evanar*** · Apr 9th, 2014, 09:10:18 PM

wth.

Looking into it.

***Zem Vymes*** · Apr 9th, 2014, 09:49:01 PM

Every other page load on fans sends me to the App Store for a music player program called torch or something. Definitely super annoying

**Milivikal k'Vik** · Apr 9th, 2014, 10:46:30 PM

Found out where it has been inserted but I'm not sure how.

Edit: found it. What the hell.

***Loklorien s'Ilancy*** · Apr 9th, 2014, 10:56:54 PM

Ah, so this would explain why my phone randomly opens the app store to some ringpop app when I'm trying to browse the forums.

***Dasquian Belargic*** · Apr 9th, 2014, 11:39:34 PM

This has never happened to me O_o

***Lilaena De'Ville*** · Apr 9th, 2014, 11:48:05 PM

Do you spend any time on the main forum page?

edit: is this where we tell everyone to change their passwords because of that thing that all the tech places are freaking out about?

***Loklorien s'Ilancy*** · Apr 10th, 2014, 01:21:23 AM

Changing passwords wouldn't help if the code is still in there, it will just make your new password as ineffective as the last. That's even if this is heartbleed though.

**Vince** · Apr 10th, 2014, 04:47:08 AM

I always navigate back and forth from the main forums page, but I've never seen this particular ad. I have seen the vBulletin pop up when navigating here on my phone. I don't know why I haven't gotten it and y'all have... maybe it's my adblock plus extension.

**Droo** · Apr 10th, 2014, 05:49:49 AM

Can't be that, Vince. I have Adblock Plus running too. What browser are you using?

**Kazahan** · Apr 10th, 2014, 07:08:25 AM

Latest Firefox out; at least I think so, as it updates automatically, so I stopped checking.

***Emelie Shadowstar*** · Apr 10th, 2014, 10:06:48 AM

Oh thank god it wasn't just me. I kept getting this on my iPhone as well

***Lilaena De'Ville*** · Apr 10th, 2014, 10:09:20 AM

Originally Posted by Loklorien s'Ilancy

Changing passwords wouldn't help if the code is still in there, it will just make your new password as ineffective as the last. That's even if this is heartbleed though.

I didn't mean that they were connected (although maybe they are? I don't know) but with heartbleed out there we should change our passwords anyway, right?

***Loklorien s'Ilancy*** · Apr 10th, 2014, 10:54:26 AM

Heartbleed is a bug, in that it's a mistake with the actual code itself rather than something that's been added. So no, this here wouldn't be heartbleed. As I said before however, changing passwords on a site that does have heartbleed will do no good. Since the problem is with the initial code itself, you can certainly go ahead and change your password, but it will do no good as the new password you created will be as worthless as the one you had.

Here's a good article about it that includes links to sites that have testers.

**Rutabaga** · Apr 10th, 2014, 09:13:07 PM

Malwarebytes started giving me pop-up warnings here a few days ago and, in general, has successfully blocked IE from flipping me over to the fishy pages. It's happened on Chrome as well. I'm just glad to know it's not just me.