Today i was minding my own bussiness on the website and i randomly went to a soda taste test website. I didn't click anything or do anything. Can someone tell me what happened and did this happen to anyone else? 

Perhaps you have spyware on your computer?  Download and run Spybot: Search and Destroy.

I have that stuff allready. anti-spywere anti-virus everything

Hmm, the only thing that could have happened then is that you accidentally clicked on an advertisement.  Can you remember what you were looking at when you were redirected to the soda website?

i was looking at a member profile or whatever you call it

Which member was it?

does it really matter?

you cannot delete Spybot, after downloading!

Calm down i wasn't planing on downloading it. i  have an anti spywere program already but thanks for the warning.

johndeere850dlc wrote:

Today i was minding my own bussiness on the website and i randomly went to a soda taste test website. I didn't click anything or do anything. Can someone tell me what happened and did this happen to anyone else? 

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that happened to me too

At least i'm not alone. Was it the soda website?

a popup asked for a password, randomly on chess.com for me too! i didnt even click!

on this page! it took me too a snicker bar sample site, and i didnt click!

Yeah, the soda page came up. It was the weirdest thing. I didn't click an ad or anything. (I'm pretty sure)

 

Good to know I'm not the only one who had that happen.

Are you all running Internet Explorer or Firefox or something else?

Firefox, and it is supposed to work best on chess.com

Hey, it just happened to me and I was looking at this forum post: http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/brand-new-apple-iphone-32gb-114-firmware-version-unlocked

I think the spammers are here... 

I saw it, and I has a Safari at PC and Vista!

if something like this happens we need to know ASAP!! please capture screenshots or provide as much information as possible. our ad networks should not ever be taking you to other pages.

thank you and sorry if this happend to you! we need more information though before we can do anything.

They're called hi-jackers, some of the free-ware on the web, will put a redirect in your browser, as well as Web and keystroke trackers. Overwriting security on some firewalls. Check the program control of yur firewall, if you see something you don't recognize, deny access, disable 3rd party cookies, and clean the cache. Keep a record of what you do. If you've downloaded  anything new in the last couple of days, try a restore date on yur pute prior to the install. Run malicious software removal tool and check your add remove programs in the control panel.Some are self replicating requiring a line by line in the Reg editor. Some bogus spyware progs only eliminate a chosen few while installing their own. Happy hunting. Are you using Road Runner for the Internet? They've had issues with port pingers parking on the servers. Those are a little harder. Since I changed from IE 7 to Firefox 3 my grandson doesn't get into half the problems he used to. Neither do I.