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Title: OT Website issues
Post by: Samquin on Thursday 09-Aug-2018, 11:59*
I am having a problem with this site as each time I try to open a topic I'm getting links to competitions and other viral links.  This is happening on both my laptop and mobile phone.  I have run malware programme  and nothing has been found. Never had this issue on the old site.

Anyone else having this problem?
Title: Re: OT Website issues
Post by: Brown Bottle on Thursday 09-Aug-2018, 12:03*
I got a bit of that yesterday - either PC or iPad, can't remember which. Seems ok on my phone now.
Title: Re: OT Website issues
Post by: TomBuckQuin on Thursday 09-Aug-2018, 12:15*
For laptop surely just use an adblocker?
Title: Re: OT Website issues
Post by: Brown Bottle on Thursday 09-Aug-2018, 12:24*
For laptop surely just use an adblocker?

I'm sure everyone does, these days.
Title: Re: OT Website issues
Post by: stoquin on Thursday 09-Aug-2018, 12:34*
yes me too yesterday and today PC and ipad
Title: Re: OT Website issues
Post by: Samquin on Thursday 09-Aug-2018, 12:41*
For laptop surely just use an adblocker?
I have reinstalled the Ad blocker and it seems to have done the trick.

Thanks
Title: Re: OT Website issues
Post by: DOK on Thursday 09-Aug-2018, 12:43*
In fact, where have the ads gone? You know - the four at the top of the page. I usually leave them on so I'm a user like anyone else. Can't say I noticed any untoward ads, yesterday or today.
Title: Re: OT Website issues
Post by: never sleep on Thursday 09-Aug-2018, 12:53*
It was happening a lot yesterday - I switched to using the WAP version of the website - which has no ads.
Title: Re: OT Website issues
Post by: AdrianB on Thursday 09-Aug-2018, 12:58*
I started getting it yesterday it then stopped but has been happening again this morning.
Title: Re: OT Website issues
Post by: stoquin on Thursday 09-Aug-2018, 13:19*
how do I add adblocker and how do I switch to WAP, whatever that may be
Title: Re: OT Website issues
Post by: never sleep on Thursday 09-Aug-2018, 13:38*
The WAP version is:
https://comeallwithin.createaforum.com/general-discussion/?wap2

or this link for just unread posts
https://comeallwithin.createaforum.com/index.php?action=unread;wap2
Title: Re: OT Website issues
Post by: AdrianB on Thursday 09-Aug-2018, 14:00*
England Rugby have website issues.
Everything on the home page and news page is 2years old.
Title: Re: OT Website issues
Post by: AdrianB on Thursday 09-Aug-2018, 14:53*
It's fixed now.
Title: Re: OT Website issues
Post by: BedfordshireBoy on Thursday 09-Aug-2018, 15:12*
England Rugby have website issues.
Everything on the home page and news page is 2years old.

It was nothing but good news 2 years ago as against the more recent doom and gloom, just trying to cheer us all up.
Title: Re: OT Website issues
Post by: AdrianB on Thursday 09-Aug-2018, 15:15*
England Rugby have website issues.
Everything on the home page and news page is 2years old.

It was nothing but good news 2 years ago as against the more recent doom and gloom, just trying to cheer us all up.
Haha, yeah I did think that.
Title: Re: OT Website issues
Post by: KiltedQuin on Thursday 09-Aug-2018, 18:18*
It's  been happening on my iPad for the past few days. I do delete them but it's a worry there's something crappy in them as the new page that opens cycles through a pile of sites.

TBH Despite its problems I found Sportsnetwork better.
Title: Re: OT Website issues
Post by: Admin on Thursday 09-Aug-2018, 19:04*
Hmmm...if you were on a windows machine I'd say you'd picked up one of those horrible self installing ad generators.

Given ads seem to have disappeared entirely (anyone seeing them?) I wonder if someone hacked the advert feed (this happened a lot on sportnetwork) and the ads have been taken down.

Anyone suffering at the moment?
Title: Re: OT Website issues
Post by: guest46 on Thursday 09-Aug-2018, 20:34*
I'm always lurking and have had no issues either on PC or tablet.

Touch wood
Title: Re: OT Website issues
Post by: raedarius on Thursday 09-Aug-2018, 22:11*
Still happening for me on a Windows laptop.  Luckily, my Internet Security program takes the pop up pages down each time, but it's pretty disappointing.
Title: Re: OT Website issues
Post by: Rocker on Thursday 09-Aug-2018, 23:12*
I've got it on my phone 😤 very annoying.
Title: Re: OT Website issues
Post by: Mayor West on Thursday 09-Aug-2018, 23:24*
Every time I touch the screen I get diverted to ads. Just tapped reply and went to some ad site. On iPad, very annoying.
Title: Re: OT Website issues
Post by: Mayor West on Thursday 09-Aug-2018, 23:29*
Ha! Pressed post and went to more ads. Will not bother with site until problem sorted as is too long winded to see anything without ads every time I touch the screen.
Title: Re: OT Website issues
Post by: DOK on Thursday 09-Aug-2018, 23:44*
Do you use the ipad like a big mobile phone or a desktop type thing? I'm struggling to understand why some people are having issues and I'm not. I don't have problems on my mobile phone, I don't have problems on my laptop, I don't have problems on my desktop. I have the adblocker turned off on this site specifically so I can see ad type issues.

Are you getting this behaviour accessing other sites? And have you done the famous "clear cache and cookies" move after rebooting the ipad but before using the browser?
Title: Re: OT Website issues
Post by: test1 on Friday 10-Aug-2018, 00:04*
Ok this is still DOK. Borrowed the wife’s iPad and can see the problem! Are you seeing two big buttons at the top of the screen saying Download and Play Now? I think they are part of the hacked advert stream. I’ll report this in the morning.
Title: Re: OT Website issues
Post by: test1 on Friday 10-Aug-2018, 00:15*
Ok. I installed Adblock plus from the App Store, configured it in less than a minute and the problem disappeared. I was pretty sure those ads were the problem. Suggest anyone suffering this in either windows or iOS downloads an ad blocker.

I will still report this however.
Title: Re: OT Website issues
Post by: Admin on Friday 10-Aug-2018, 07:59*
OK - that's reported. If you stick to using the mobile view of the board, there don't seem to be problems. Only if you use the full board option on a mobile device (which makes sense with ipads and stuff). Managed to reproduce it on an android phone then make it go away with firefox/adblockplus.
Title: Re: OT Website issues
Post by: test1 on Friday 10-Aug-2018, 08:07*
On Iexplore I turned on "Manage add-ons", "Tracking Protection" and turned on a list called EasyList Address http://easylist-msie.RemoveAdblock.com/easylist.tpl and the problem ads disappeared. So play around with tracking protection and see if that solves it.

Title: Re: OT Website issues
Post by: fandg2 on Friday 10-Aug-2018, 09:14*
Hurrah, just downloaded a Chrome adblocker and the problems seems to have gone. Thanks DOK
Title: Re: OT Website issues
Post by: The Absolute Quintet on Friday 10-Aug-2018, 09:23*
Yup, the Chrome adblocker does it for my PC. Thanks. It was getting annoying.
Title: Re: OT Website issues
Post by: never sleep on Friday 10-Aug-2018, 09:33*
I disabled Javascript for this site on Chrome and I think it worked.
Basically, I went to
Settings -> Advanced -> Content Settings ->Javascript
Then I clicked "ADD" next to the "Block"
and entered "https://comeallwithin.createaforum.com"
The Blue slider at the top needs to say "Allowed (recommended)" - i.e. needs to be slid to the right.
Title: Re: OT Website issues
Post by: stoquin on Friday 10-Aug-2018, 11:05*
Fantastic well done NS, did exactly as you said and works fine now, the 2 grey boxes have gone, hurrah!
Title: Re: OT Website issues
Post by: Admin on Friday 10-Aug-2018, 11:12*
Yes, not sure if anything on this site uses javascript. Ad blockers may be a bit more selective but hell, if it works for you go for it!
Title: Re: OT Website issues
Post by: never sleep on Friday 10-Aug-2018, 11:40*
I am always nervous about installing any extension that can read all the traffic from my browser.  (Really, everyone should be cautious about this - it is really important.)
In my mind, blocking the Javascript is generally a safer approach.
Title: Re: OT Website issues
Post by: AdrianB on Friday 10-Aug-2018, 11:45*
I disabled Javascript for this site on Chrome and I think it worked.
Basically, I went to
Settings -> Advanced -> Content Settings ->Javascript
Then I clicked "ADD" next to the "Block"
and entered "https://comeallwithin.createaforum.com"
The Blue slider at the top needs to say "Allowed (recommended)" - i.e. needs to be slid to the right.

Thanks, it ssems to work the opposite way around in Chrome on Android though, i.e Javascript is blocked for all sites and you need to add exceptions where you want to allow it
Title: Re: OT Website issues
Post by: AdrianB on Friday 10-Aug-2018, 11:48*
Yes, not sure if anything on this site uses javascript. Ad blockers may be a bit more selective but hell, if it works for you go for it!
You lose the calendars so not a big issue.
The pop ups and redirects were really bad today, every action caused a pop up.
Title: Re: OT Website issues
Post by: Samquin on Friday 10-Aug-2018, 12:23*
I disabled Javascript for this site on Chrome and I think it worked.
Basically, I went to
Settings -> Advanced -> Content Settings ->Javascript
Then I clicked "ADD" next to the "Block"
and entered "https://comeallwithin.createaforum.com"
The Blue slider at the top needs to say "Allowed (recommended)" - i.e. needs to be slid to the right.

Thanks, it ssems to work the opposite way around in Chrome on Android though, i.e Javascript is blocked for all sites and you need to add exceptions where you want to allow it

Success at last. My android phone was still having problems so I followed the above and blocked all. Didn't see a blue slider  but it seemed to work. I was unable to add any exceptions.   Thanks for the info.
Title: Re: OT Website issues
Post by: deadlyfrom5yardsout on Friday 10-Aug-2018, 12:30*
My McAfee is blocking this website every time I read a post......
Title: Re: OT Website issues
Post by: Admin on Friday 10-Aug-2018, 13:55*
can you "whitelist" this site on McAfee?
Title: Re: OT Website issues
Post by: deadlyfrom5yardsout on Friday 10-Aug-2018, 14:13*
errmmm maybeee....?
Title: Re: OT Website issues
Post by: Rocker on Friday 10-Aug-2018, 14:26*
I've not got issues any more
Title: Re: OT Website issues
Post by: Admin on Friday 10-Aug-2018, 14:51*
No, I got this from the team that run the site

Quote from: Createaforum
Was testing a new ad network. Have found the default option on the banners
ad popups. Have changed the setting to disable the popups

So let me know if this is not sorted.
Title: Re: OT Website issues
Post by: AdrianB on Friday 10-Aug-2018, 15:45*
Thanks DOK, I have changed my settings back, I can see ads and both calendars again and I am not getting any issues.
Title: Re: OT Website issues
Post by: Mayor West on Friday 10-Aug-2018, 19:20*
Just got home and tried looking on here to see what's happening and all is back to normal. No ads anymore. I have done nothing with any of my settings.