Website Issue?

[KnottyRig]

In the last couple days I've been getting a popup asking for authentication (to a German website, whhu.de).

After a little sleuthing, it seems to be coming from this forum-whemever I load/reload a page from here, I get an authentication popup. (See attached).

Web admin- any ideas what's going on?

 

[JackandJanet]

Knotty and Web Admin - I'm not having that issue. I use Firefox as my web browser and I have AdBlock Plus and Ghostery installed.

Just throwing this out in case it might help. The popup looks a bit like malware to me.

- Jack

 

[KnottyRig]

I agree - it looks like a bogus redirect. Interesting thing is, this is on Android, and I keep tight controls on permissions (plus it only happens here). Weird, for sure. I'll test elsewhere tomorrow.
Thanks!

 

[RichR]

I haven't seen it either and I use Chrome on my Android. Do you have any security software installed like McAfee or Avast? That could help.

 

[KnottyRig]

Well clearly it's just me. It was just odd I saw the behavior only on the HiLo forum.

Seems to have gone away now (closed all pages and reloaded).

Weird.

Thanks for the help narrowing it down!

 

[Janet H]

Please make sure that you have some security running on your device. Mobile devices can be targeted with virus, malware and unwanted adware the same way a computer can be. It sounds like you have some unwanted adware and while it's probably mostly harmless, should be removed.