[–] divtxt 14y ago ↗ Possibly similar: I accidentally had flashblock disabled, and a malicious flash ad on wired.com performed many MB of requests and then redirected me to another site after 5-10 seconds.
[–] adsr 14y ago ↗ Flagged in Safari as well and at Google Safe Browsing diagnostics page: http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=arstechni... [–] TazeTSchnitzel 14y ago ↗ That's probably the reason. Several browsers use Google's lists, I think. [–] khuey 14y ago ↗ Firefox, Safari, and Chrome all use Google's list. Opera might, I'm not sure.
[–] TazeTSchnitzel 14y ago ↗ That's probably the reason. Several browsers use Google's lists, I think. [–] khuey 14y ago ↗ Firefox, Safari, and Chrome all use Google's list. Opera might, I'm not sure.
[–] Splines 14y ago ↗ I was redirected on Ars to some other site today as well. disconnect.me seems to block whatever is going on.
[–] mey 14y ago ↗ Information in Ars' Forum about the event. Initial theory is that one of their ad-networks got hacked.http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1171612Edit: In the short term they've disabled ads across the entire site in an effort to keep the injection channel blocked.
[–] ChuckMcM 14y ago ↗ Submitted 3 hrs ago : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3823537 but I'm wondering why HN is now refusing comments from me.
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Edit: In the short term they've disabled ads across the entire site in an effort to keep the injection channel blocked.