Birdforum hijacked on iPhone? (1 Viewer)

gandytron

Well-known member

• Apr 11, 2015

• #1

In the last 3-4 days,when I log onto BF the page partially loads but then the page redirects to an advertising page and then switches to the AppStore.

Is anybody else having this problem?

It is not happening on any other websites, or on my laptop. All BF web pages seem to be susceptible.

Thanks,

Dave

 

Brosnabirder

Well-known member

• Apr 11, 2015

• #2

Hi Dave
That happened on my phone (Samsung s4) a few months back. It constantly redirected to advertising but not to App store. It just stopped doing that after a while and I don't know what the problem was.
I'd be very interested in any other replies you get too. It only happened when I checked BF.
All the best
Tom

 

Jos Stratford

Eastern Exile

Staff member

• Apr 11, 2015

• #3

Maybe a coincidence, but the only time I have ever had any problem with BF redirecting was in Thailand - on ipad, it almost constantly flicked off to undesirable sites. Never happened anywhere else, before or since my trip.

 

T

Tarsiger

Well-known member

• Apr 11, 2015

• #4

Just had the same thing, for third time in last few months. Device(kindle) is clean. Never happened on notebook, laptop or Tesco Hudl(Android).
Always from BF
Russ

 

Craig H

Well-known member

• Apr 11, 2015

• #5

Ive had it on laptop (windows and IOS) and iPad. However we found out we had a DNS changer virus which had affected our router. Once the router was reset there were no more problems.

 

gandytron

Well-known member

• Apr 12, 2015

• #6

Thanks for these replies.

I has still been happening today - both using 3G and wifi (so it is not a router issue).

Guess I will update my software and see if that fixes anything.

This is a remarkably annoying problem!

 

redeyedvideo

It's like water off a duck's back!

• Apr 12, 2015

• #7

Have you tried deleting the bf bookmark, doing a search and bookmarking the new url? Might be worth a try.

 

gandytron

Well-known member

• Apr 17, 2015

• #8

I just downloaded a new web browser (Mercury) and the same problem occurs.

Makes me think this is not a problem with my phone, but with my ISP?

 

Craig H

Well-known member

• Apr 17, 2015

• #9

Seriously, check your router. Once one if my devices has used the affected settings, it continued to send us to spam websites even on 3G. For safety I did a full reset of the phone and iPad, reset the router and everything was fine, until the router became affected again. Apparently it's a well known issue with the model I have since the producer ceased producing them and updating their firmware.