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Dana
09-06-2012, 10:38 AM
Was this website hacked with a redirect to sleazebags selling Viagra and such, just fixed recently?

It was strange... I use Proximitron as a proxy server (proxy filter, technically), with my browser configured to use a proxy to route traffic through Proximitron. (Proximitron is a popup and ad blocker, though it does other things as well). Anyway, whenever I attempted to access any of the subforums here, it took me to the Viagra page. If I reconfigured the browser to not use a proxy, I could get to the correct page. It had me looking for viruses and malware on my computer, but it only happened on eaaforums. Within the last week, the problem simply went away.

I'm guessing it was a redirect hack that depended on what browser was accessing the site (Proximitron can report itself to be any browser you like, though not always successfully). It would be a clever hack... less likely to be reported and harder to track if it ignored the most common browsers like Firefox and IE.