Digital Spy Forums redirecting to porn?

Stuart1000 · 22/08/12 - 16:21

Anybody else having this problem today?

Twice when I've click onto threads, I'm being redirected to porn sites? It happened once on the Big Brother forum and then again on the X Factor forum.

Sorry if this is in the wrong place, was just wondering if this was happening to anyone else or if I need to run anti-virus.

[Deleted User] · 22/08/12 - 16:23

No, it hasn't happened to me. This site has never redirected me anywhere.

Time to do a malware scan.

Tt88 · 22/08/12 - 16:24

It happened to me when i tried to read a wedding thread. As im on an ipad i assumed i must have accidently touched something without realising. Thought it was a bit odd that a family forum would have an ad for a porn site!

roland rat · 22/08/12 - 16:25

Stuart1000 wrote: »

Anybody else having this problem today?

Twice when I've click onto threads, I'm being redirected to porn sites? It happened once on the Big Brother forum and then again on the X Factor forum.

Sorry if this is in the wrong place, was just wondering if this was happening to anyone else or if I need to run anti-virus.

Are you sure it not the adds, what ever threwad title you been looking at, the adds, try to match these titles, so porn = porn... kind of, but were not getting any adds for porn, maybe for viagra

flagpole · 22/08/12 - 16:25

if this is some charade your going through because someone caught you looking at porn i have no wish to be a part of it.

otherwise malware scan time.

Stuart1000 · 22/08/12 - 16:26

I'm on my iPad too so didn't think it would be a malware problem. At least it's happening to somebody else, I was wondering if a visit to the Apple Store would have been necessary.

kitty86 · 22/08/12 - 16:26

Stuart1000 wrote: »

Anybody else having this problem today?

Twice when I've click onto threads, I'm being redirected to porn sites? It happened once on the Big Brother forum and then again on the X Factor forum.

Sorry if this is in the wrong place, was just wondering if this was happening to anyone else or if I need to run anti-virus.

I had that happen to me once earlier, I thought I was going a bit mad

woodbush wrote: »

No, it hasn't happened to me. This site has never redirected me anywhere.

Time to do a malware scan.

What is a malware scan? Can it be done on an Ipad?

Thank you

Tt88 · 22/08/12 - 16:28

When it happened to me i clicked the thread, read about two lines then the screen changed to a porn site. I clicked the back button retried and it worked fine. Im also glad its not just me it has happened to!

Stuart1000 · 22/08/12 - 16:28

Apple products are renowned for not contracting viruses so malware shouldn't be a problem. I think the problem is with DS.

SpeedOfLight · 22/08/12 - 16:28

Can an IPad get malware? I don't think it can.

lucy777 · 22/08/12 - 16:29

Stuart1000 wrote: »

Anybody else having this problem today?

Twice when I've click onto threads, I'm being redirected to porn sites? It happened once on the Big Brother forum and then again on the X Factor forum.

Sorry if this is in the wrong place, was just wondering if this was happening to anyone else or if I need to run anti-virus.

Happened to me today too.

A321 · 22/08/12 - 16:33

Are the sites any good?

swingaleg · 22/08/12 - 16:35

I've just clicked on something and found myself at the Open University...........

Porn for boffins ?...............:eek::eek:

Stuart1000 · 22/08/12 - 16:35

Is everybody it's happened to been on iPad?

vierte · 22/08/12 - 16:35

Happened to me earlier on the iPad too, there were these huge big saggy ugly boobs on my screen.

roland rat · 22/08/12 - 16:36

vierte wrote: »

Happened to me earlier on the iPad too, there were these huge big saggy ugly boobs on my screen.

How long did you leave them there

:D:D:D:D

far2cool · 22/08/12 - 16:36

Stuart1000 wrote: »

Apple products are renowned for not contracting viruses so malware shouldn't be a problem. I think the problem is with DS.

It's not 2005 anymore...

Picto · 22/08/12 - 16:37

It's not happened to me yet. What am i doing wrong?

Richard Swan · 22/08/12 - 16:39

Hi - we're on it, thanks for letting us know.

Hobbit Feet · 22/08/12 - 16:39

Apple products are so damn sexy that even the internet gets its kit off for them

InkyPinky · 22/08/12 - 16:40

I ws reading GD on my android earlier and a content block message popped up . I have a block active for 18+ content. I'm wondering now if this was why ?

Joel's dad · 22/08/12 - 16:40

It happened to me. Too earlier today

Teddybleads · 22/08/12 - 16:40

Thought it was just me.

Belligerence · 22/08/12 - 16:41

vierte wrote: »

Happened to me earlier on the iPad too, there were these huge big saggy ugly boobs on my screen.

At least it's not those virtual woman viruses, when they striptease on your desktop. :eek:

Sigurd · 22/08/12 - 16:41

Stuart1000 wrote: »

Is everybody it's happened to been on iPad?

It happened to me earlier this afternoon on my iPad when I was looking at the Advice forum, and a page popped up advertising Local Slags or something. Since I've had the iPad for just a couple of days and it's the first one I've owned, I was considerably taken aback, so it's interesting to hear that someone else had the same problem.

On a PC I'd run malware scans, but I didn't know what to do with the iPad. I'm assuming (perhaps wrongly) that it's a DS problem.

RichmondBlue · 22/08/12 - 16:47

I had it once this morning, it was the first time ever on DS. It wasn't a major link, I was just trying to get onto the last post in a thread, on the IPad those links are small anyway if you don't really expand the page.
I didn't hang around long enough to see what it contained, but it was a surprise.

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