phishing attempt?

[knut]

yo, getting a funny login page from my home computer whenever i visit the site for a ''t.skimresources.com'', if i press cancel it takes me to the site as if all were normal (which is how i'm posting now), but for every new thread i open it asks me three to four times.

opera is flagging it as a phish attempt, helplife2.net, s'this all about then?

(is this even the right forum? sorry)

 

[Acepilotf14]

http://forums.spacebattles.com/showthread.php?t=201830

 

[knut]

http://forums.spacebattles.com/showthread.php?t=201830

okay, great - solution? i'm a mac user, too, which means i've been out of the loop of adscans and computer scanning for nearly 4 to 5 years now because of the zero amount of problems they get.

it's only occuring on this website, mind, though i've just tried it on my laptop and i can get through to the site just fine. this sounds like a problem, then.

 

[Ennui]

90% positive that indicates an infection on your end (trojan, browser hijacker, etc) and doesn't have anything to do with HL2.net.

 

[Munro]

I'm running an affiliate link advertising plugin to trial which accounts for the URL. It's a bit of code hosted at their site that converts some links on the forum pages into affiliate links to generate revenue. There's no reason why there should be a login box anywhere but it's nothing to worry about. Do you get it on all pages? What browser do you use?

 

[knut]

I'm running an affiliate link advertising plugin to trial which accounts for the URL. It's a bit of code hosted at their site that converts some links on the forum pages into affiliate links to generate revenue. There's no reason why there should be a login box anywhere but it's nothing to worry about. Do you get it on all pages? What browser do you use?

i get it when first entering the site, then from there on out it's appearing on every page. i'm using opera and i'm just about to check the website in firefox - alright, just checked and firefox seems fine, so just opera.

likely i've picked up something then, perhaps. any idea on how to get rid of it for a mac user? (perhaps move to hardware forum now?)

 

[Munro]

I don't think it's you. I think opera is getting confused by the code and thinks it as another (secure) site. Safari works fine.

 

[knut]

right, well i'm going to run some tests and find out what's up anyway - no DNS nonsense going on, and i did some terminal doo-hickey stuff which didn't reveal anything, but i'm pretty computer illiterate in all fairness so who knows?

if it's opera getting confused by code, any advice on what i should do?

 

[Munro]

Use a better browser? :| I'll check the code in the morning and see if there's anything my end I can do to fix it.

 

[knut]

hey, i like opera

just restarted my program and the website is working fine now. very curious.

 

[Adabiviak]

...whenever you visit halflife2.net? I'm using Opera, and haven't seen that prompt (although I was unable to connect for periods of time yesterday).