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Forum abduction

Post by anko1 »

Just recently when I tried to connect to Folding Forum, I got redirected to a flower site. It's (obviously) fixed now, but is there some way to alert someone about this? Or should I just presume that as frequently as the moderators and admins check-in someone will notice soon enough?
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anko1 wrote:Just recently when I tried to connect to Folding Forum, I got redirected to a flower site. It's (obviously) fixed now, but is there some way to alert someone about this? Or should I just presume that as frequently as the moderators and admins check-in someone will notice soon enough?
Not quite sure how that happened, but if you email admin{@}foldingforum.org or admin{@}fahinfo.org if there's a serious problem, that'll get through to me.
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Thanks for letting me know. Do you need the web site that the forum was redireted to? I still have it up on one of my tabs.
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anko1 wrote:Thanks for letting me know. Do you need the web site that the forum was redireted to? I still have it up on one of my tabs.
Ya, sure! PM it over to UF.
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Re: Forum abduction

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Strange, I have been on most of the day, and have not seen that.

Could have been something machine specific. If it happens frequently, you may want to check your system with HJT, and see if here are any redirect entries listed on your system.
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It might a DNS issue with anko1's ISP ... which was automatically corrected ;)
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Maybe. All I know is that when I clicked on my bookmark and the link from one of my notification emails and the link on the FAH home page, I got to the same place. All seems fine now.

ed: I composed this before toTOW's response. I'm guessing that means that the problem was with Firefox?
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anko1 wrote:Maybe. All I know is that when I clicked on my bookmark and the link from one of my notification emails and the link on the FAH home page, I got to the same place. All seems fine now.

ed: I composed this before toTOW's response. I'm guessing that means that the problem was with Firefox?
No it was with your ISP ... DNS is converting names (like foldingforum.org) into IP address (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) and the DNS server is located at your ISP ... it might have made a mistake and then directed you to the wrong server (it happens sometimes) ...
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Re: Forum abduction

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Right, Firefox is a browser, correct? So the problem's with Yahoo/ATT?
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anko1 wrote:Right, Firefox is a browser, correct? So the problem's with Yahoo/ATT?
If it doesn't happen again, you don't need to worry about it ... but if it happens again, or if someone else sees a similiar issue, we'll be able to better locate the issue.
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Re: Forum abduction

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Thanks!
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Re: Forum abduction

Post by bruce »

anko1 wrote:So the problem's with Yahoo/ATT?
Probably, but you might want to scan for mal-ware. You might have picked up some kind of infection that is doing strange things to your machine.

I've seen no redirection errors from here, but I don't use AT&T's DNS.
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