[menog] strange redirect with news site

[Jim Mercer]

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:40:51AM -0400, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
> On Jul 21, 2009, at 11:00 AM, Richard Barnes wrote:
> >I can confirm that the same thing is happening from the US (Maryland).
> >
> >I got the same redirect after clicking the one Ha'aretz link on the
> >front page of news.google.ca (the second or third time), but haven't
> >been able to observe it since to collect any more information.

whew.  i was starting to think maybe i had a local problem.

> I cannot confirm this. However, it is quite possible that malware was  
> installed on the site by a bot; that
> will definitely trigger these google warnings.

note: i didn't get any warnings from google, or anything for that matter.

i had a private email from the provider for the newspaper, and provided him
with the URLs (from my history) for the site redirected to.

i do note that on the newspaper page, there are ads via googlesense, but also
some ads by another firm.  i suggested that something might have been
embedded in the ads.

--jim


> 
> Marshall
> 
> >--Richard
> >
> >On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 6:37 AM, Jim Mercer<jim at reptiles.org> wrote:
> >>
> >>political issues aside,
> >>
> >>when cruising news using http://news.google.ca, i occasion upon  
> >>various
> >>stories at http://www.haaretz.com
> >>
> >>several times now, even though the google news URL is for www.haaretz.com 
> >>,
> >>i find myself redirected to some scammer website "your PC may be  
> >>infected
> >>with a virus, scan now?"
> >>
> >>not just as a pop-up, but an actual full redirect of the news page.
> >>
> >>doesn't seem to happen the second time i access the link from  
> >>news.google.ca.
> >>
> >>dunno if anyone here has contacts with haaretz.com, but this has  
> >>the potential
> >>to infect PCs.
> >>
> >>
> >>--
> >>Jim Mercer        jim at reptiles.org        +971 55 410-5633
> >>"I'm Prime Minister of Canada, I live here and I'm going to take a  
> >>leak."
> >>  - Lester Pearson in 1967, during a meeting between himself and
> >>   President Lyndon Johnson, whose Secret Service detail had taken  
> >>over
> >>   Pearson's cottage retreat.  At one point, a Johnson guard asked
> >>   Pearson, "Who are you and where are you going?"
> >>
> >
> >

-- 
Jim Mercer        jim at reptiles.org        +971 55 410-5633
"I'm Prime Minister of Canada, I live here and I'm going to take a leak."
   - Lester Pearson in 1967, during a meeting between himself and
    President Lyndon Johnson, whose Secret Service detail had taken over
    Pearson's cottage retreat.  At one point, a Johnson guard asked
    Pearson, "Who are you and where are you going?"