Encore Posted June 1, 2008 Report Share Posted June 1, 2008 Recently, clicking a link from a different thread to a Youporn page, I am being rdirected to another porn site. SD suggested I may have a spyware virus. I downloaded Mac Scan, ran it, isolated a spyware file, but it still is redirecting me whenever I run a youporn address. But the transfer from my selected youporn page still happens. Just now it redirects me to a page that is named //online-malwarescanner.com/id/4913113/4/1/, on which it 'identifies a problem and invites me to push button to repair it. Trouble is, the page looks like a Windows page, and is headed IE Antivirus. A "windows looking' window says: >Hardware errors Performance of your PC is low due to a file system error. It was caused by the changes malicious software made in your system files and numerous open ports used by spyware to transfer your privacy data. Your personal data safety is in danger. Privacy information errors Spyware has stolen your personal information. You can see the contents of the stolen block below: IP address: 125.27.3.53 Country: Thailand TH Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/523.10.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0.4 Safari/523.10 Operating System: Windows" Crap, I'm operating OSX. I didn't take the invite, but running MacScan again. Now i am concerned about doing internet banking. Any Apple mac users here who can suggest another more effective anti virus programme to get rid of this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khunsanuk Posted June 1, 2008 Report Share Posted June 1, 2008 Hi, "Spyware has stolen your personal information. You can see the contents of the stolen block below: IP address: 125.27.3.53 Country: Thailand TH Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/523.10.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0.4 Safari/523.10 Operating System: Windows"" What a load of bollocks. That info is freely available to any website as your browser passes it on. It also means nothing, none of it is personal information. I would not be surprised if that website will give you a virus once you press the button to 'repair' the problem. Sanuk! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCorinthian Posted June 1, 2008 Report Share Posted June 1, 2008 25 year mac user here. Most likely you have a cookie in your browser that is activating the redirect. Spy wear on a mac does not work very well as your OSX will tell you that a download has a application every time and ask if you want to activate it. Reseting the computer will also cut off a app and you would have to order it turned back on once you reboot. So unless you clicked yes on that warning, I doubt anything is active that is not native to the system. So the first question is, did you delete all your cookies? Oh, and are you using Safari or IE 5.whatever mostly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vegasdave49 Posted June 1, 2008 Report Share Posted June 1, 2008 yeah I would tend to agree it may be a cookie issue. I rarely get any pop up's When I do it is usually just a certain site that will do it based on the code they have in that particular site. In regards to the ones that come up and say virus-spyware ect and look like they are a windows, window, if that makes sense, they are just bogus. I know it is a pain to dump all of your cookies because you will have to re-enter pass words to member sites ect. But you really should do that from time to time anyway. After a while you will get so many of them that your browser will start to slow down. I have to say I run two mac's, they are on 24/7 on cable, I have not a single anti virus or spyware program. I just have never needed them. I will not go into a big PC's suck and Mac's don't rant. But for me Mac's just work. Sort of like buying a toyota. You just get in and drive them. No Drama. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Encore Posted June 1, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 1, 2008 KS > What a load of bollocks. That info is freely available to any website as your browser passes it on. It also means nothing, none of it is personal information. I would not be surprised if that website will give you a virus once you press the button to 'repair' the problem.< That was also my take on it, so i didn't press it. TC> So the first question is, did you delete all your cookies? Oh, and are you using Safari or IE 5.whatever mostly? < Yes, deleted. Usually use safari. I suppose I'll just have to turn off my machine from time to time, and occasioanlly remove my cookies. Thanks for the responses Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Encore Posted June 1, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 1, 2008 Still does it, but only with youporn. Suppose I'll have to stop looking at it.... Never mind, DVD's are better quality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Encore Posted June 1, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 1, 2008 Still does it, but only with youporn. Suppose I'll have to stop looking at it.... Never mind, DVD's are better quality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCorinthian Posted June 1, 2008 Report Share Posted June 1, 2008 Another thing you can do it hit the "reset safari" which is 6th down on the safari window shade. But it is also very likely that yourporn is doing it themselves and the code is embedded in the server you are going to. Post up the link you are using and I will take a look at it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weird Posted June 1, 2008 Report Share Posted June 1, 2008 I have no clue how Macs work, but if it was a windows OS I'd say that your localhost file (basically a local DNS) was hijacked. Also enless Macs handle cookies completely different that most likely would not be the issue either. Cookies just contain data which is translated by the server, and I don't believe YouPorn is redirecting based on cookies. Some things you might try are Connecting through a different internet connection (since it might not be a problem with your machine at all, but the connection your trying to get through... aka cache poisoning). Make sure you aren't connecting through a proxy. Try putting this in your address bar http://74.86.111.11/ What does it show? Same thing? It should show a YouPorn page saying you entered the name in incorrectly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Encore Posted June 2, 2008 Author Report Share Posted June 2, 2008 weird> Try putting this in your address bar http://74.86.111.11/ What does it show? Same thing? It should show a YouPorn page saying you entered the name in incorrectly. < I ran that, it took me to the page you told me, i pressed the link on that page, and it redirected me again to the non-youporn paysite. So no I'm scanning again. I connect via a speedtouch modem with TOT, computer to modem with network cable. I'll try my laptop via wireless, to see if it's the machine or the connection. TC: the link I'm using was from a post on a 'members' thread, but any link that includes www.youporn.com or specific youporn pafes recommended by otehrs will give the same result. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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