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Overv / VulkanTutorial

Tutorial for the Vulkan graphics and compute API
https://vulkan-tutorial.com
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Website periodically redirects to random possibly malicious spam #367

Closed One234Fi closed 7 months ago

One234Fi commented 7 months ago

I'm not sure what's causing it, but one of the libraries or plugins on vulkan-tutorial.com periodically redirects to random spam sites. The most common one I've seen is "updatesecuritynow.com/hak2var/........", which shows a McAfee antivirus popup that covers the entire screen. In the past, I've also been redirected to "solicitation" websites. This has happened to me at least 12 times over the past two or three months, and only on this website. It's happened in both Google Chrome, and in Firefox. Inspecting the page in the redirect, as far as I can tell, the only scripts it contains are to display the current time and a to display a button that redirects to "trk.tadsdir.com/click". I have not clicked on the redirect, and do not plan on doing so.

Overv commented 7 months ago

Thanks for mentioning this, I'll get in contact with the ad management company about this.

Overv commented 7 months ago

The advertiser in question has been blocked.