Websites re-directing?

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Afternoon, ladies and gents

Has anybody noticed a couple of websites inc but possibly not limited to the London Evening Standard, and the Gazette Live website are being re-directed to a relatively inconspicuous website. I thought my machine at work may have been compromised with some form of a re-direct nasty.... but after it happening on two different machines in the building and on my phone I don't believe its my problem.

Can anybody get to the London Standard without it re-directing after loading?.

These are the only two sites I've seen this happen, been on many other sites today and none have done this.

Thanks
 
It's probably a dodgy advert on the site doing the redirecting, which means if it's part of a number of ads in rotation it may not happen every time/on every machine first time.
 
Werewolf said:
It's probably a dodgy advert on the site doing the redirecting, which means if it's part of a number of ads in rotation it may not happen every time/on every machine first time.
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That's what I thought as its only started happening today and on different devices... guess I'll just have to wait. Lunch break over I guess. :(
 
Was your phone connected to the same network as the PCs, ie Wireless? If so it could be a corporate thing.

EDIT: Saying that, that would depend on what website it's redirecting to.
 
Depending on where you are looking (status bar, main address bar) you could be seeing all sorts of redirects or external sources.

Below is about half of the sites standard.co.uk either redirects to, or pulls content from :D

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As said above, if you are connected to a work WiFi or network you may also be seeing addresses like

bluefin01.something.com
zscaler01.something.com
matas01.something.com
webproxy01.something.com

This will be your company routing and scanning/checking web traffic as it crosses their network.
 
Definitely sounds like a dodgy ad. Despite my better judgement, I whitelist a few sites I frequent, but immediately blocked them after that happening a couple times. There needs to be better curation for that sort of thing.
 
Liquidfox said:
Was your phone connected to the same network as the PCs, ie Wireless? If so it could be a corporate thing.

EDIT: Saying that, that would depend on what website it's redirecting to.
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I do have my phone connected to our WiFi, and it did re-direct when on WiFi, however i went onto my phones data and cleared the cache from the browser killed the application and it still did the same.
 
Nomisf said:
Depending on where you are looking (status bar, main address bar) you could be seeing all sorts of redirects or external sources.

Below is about half of the sites standard.co.uk either redirects to, or pulls content from :D



As said above, if you are connected to a work WiFi or network you may also be seeing addresses like

bluefin01.something.com
zscaler01.something.com
matas01.something.com
webproxy01.something.com

This will be your company routing and scanning/checking web traffic as it crosses their network.
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Ahh i see, looking at the list there, I can see a website that its re-directing too. However it looks like that site is no longer up and running as its re-directed to one of those generic looking webpages for unused domains.
 
pimper said:
Ahh i see, looking at the list there, I can see a website that its re-directing too. However it looks like that site is no longer up and running as its re-directed to one of those generic looking webpages for unused domains.
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Out of curiosity, which one is it ?
 
Interesting,

visualdna (dot) com resolves for me to a marketing company website,

findingresult.com however was an address I have seen pop-up in Malware & Adware packages before, so might be worth checking/scanning any devices.
 
pimper said:
its visualdna._com, which forwards to **findingresult._com** as it looks like visualdna isn't functioning anymore.
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^^^^Am getting this today through chrome from the Liverpool echo website.
It kept redirecting me to url]www.findingresult._com[/url]. :mad:

Just scanning now to see if its malware as I have deleted all history and am still getting it.
 
So it appears to be news websites that have the issue. Must be a website they feed from in common.

EDIT: The Standard loads fine now.. it appears to have been sorted.
 
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