Am I Under Attack?

[New Judge]

Gromit has posted under this question:

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1452148.html

which may be mis-posted. It prompted me because since yesterday afternoon I have been intermittently blasted with a pop-up:

"The page at http://gadgey-promotions.com says:
Congratulations BT Public Internet Service Customer!
Your Desktop Desktop [sic] has been randomly selected to win a courtesy Apple product!"

It only seems to happen (as far as I can tell) when I’m using AB. I get this and other messages informing me I have won prizes. I got another telling me:

“Recommended.
You are currently using Firefox browser and it is recommended that you update your media player to the latest version available. Please update in order to continue.”

They are all in the same format (light grey popup boxes with no “X” to close, only an “OK” button.) They appear at fairly regular intervals, perhaps once every minute or two.”

I also keep getting diverted to a site called “Flirchi.com” (a dating website) which takes meout of AB entirely.

Norton blocked at attack by “fake.app attack” or something, but it’s still happening. What can I do about it?

Anybody else having similar probs?

[-SharonA-]

I am fed up, I've too got a bug! Very annoying and nothing seems to remove it.

[Togo]

//Looks like I've been hacked by this so called number too, urgent message come up on my laptop to call this number which I thought was genuine as I've been having trouble lately watching DVDs etc, spoke with them for more than 40 mins, then they ask for money Toreboot my laptop I said no ca you call me back Monday which is today and I've had no call, I'm so clad I read all your reports now I'll be going though with my contents insurance.//
Found this when I did a number search .When the grey wont go hold down on esc and press ctrl and alt at the same time. It gives 5 mins respite and you can get a message posted. This site sucks.

[Hypognosis]

@Prudie
//He answers so many of the same repeated problems I expect he's got them ready saved. You could do the same Hypo.
19:30 Sat 24th Oct 2015//

Boilerplate replies would make sense for common problems but I have a silly tendency to think through problems individually and then personalise my answers. In fact I only bothered to answer because it looked like our trusty Buenchico wasn't about.

[Togo]

This flircha site that keeps breaking through is a Ukraine based site whose operators use sophisticated encryption to hide their identities. The map shows that it appears to be sited in the Russian controlled sector. The people online, who have used this site, all complain about being bombarded with scam attempts from Ghana and Nigeria in the reviews. It carries a 0% rating in the safety lists, but seem it slips under the radar of the safety team on this site.
http://www.scamadviser.com/check-website/flirchi.com

[DaisyNonna]

Just occurred

[Davemano]

Problem same as post by Togo at 1935. It takes the entire screen.

[Hypognosis]

Could any of you who are having these problems try disabling Flash player (requires restarting your browser)?

If the problem hasn't gone away, try using Control Panel Windows Add/Remove (or latest equivalent) to remove Flashplayer completely from your computer, before trying AB again.

Flash is easy to reinstall from scratch. Just make sure you download it from the genuine Adobe website.

I am guessing that users were tricked into downloading a phoney flash upgrade file and that it is evading all the scanning software.

[DaisyNonna]

No problem until I clicked on a thread mentioning d.....p

[Togo]

dolp.ad2016.xyz-Micro

[Prudie]

I've not downloaded any flash update, phoney or not. Not downloaded anything. It's coming through the adverts.

[Togo]

This site only. OK all day on everything else.

[Togo]

I'm off looks like a tracker.

[Davemano]

It's now gone beyond all reasonable toleration when it could be sorted. That's me finished until it's put right. Annoyed to say the least.

[pastafreak]

I'd suggest waiting until tomorrow at least. That's when the techies will be back. Ed has said that the problm s are due to one of their advertising sources.

[Davemano]

pastafreak - didn't know Ed had said that, all the same it make it nigh impossible to post.

[Noe-schitt]

I've been watching this thread with interest but despite using 5 different browsers on Desktop, Laptop and Ipad with the unmentionable turned off I've experienced no problems it must be specifically targeting users

[DTCwordfan]

talk-talk and talk - how about some action - pronto?

[alavahalf]

Having disowned Explorer while trying to access AB, I seem to have had no problems at all since installing Firefox a couple of months ago. But over the past 3 days I seem to have the same issues as NJ. It is a bit disheartening that every time I access AB I seem to have a battle on my hands .. I'm slowly losing the will.

Windows 7... Firefox ...

[Noe-schitt]

I'm afraid there's not much users can do to resolve ABs problems all we can to is talk about it but I assume you have cleared your browsers browsing data, temporary files, history, cookies etc