Sumpin funny goin on

[Artemis Fowl]

Getting randomly redirected. Likely tied to some pop up ad or something. My work firewall blocks it with a warning and I have to open a new instance.

 

[J Grant]

Getting randomly redirected. Likely tied to some pop up ad or something. My work firewall blocks it with a warning and I have to open a new instance.

Me too. Probably caused by the AI everyone hypes as the answer. It is already spell checking here and does a horrible job. AI runs on algorithms and is probably directing us to sites it wants more clicks on

 

[Head Surfer]

Please send me a screen shot of the popup. Let me know everything you can about it so I can stop it.

 

[J Grant]

I cant take a screenshot of it-in the middle of typing a reply, the screen shuts down and directs me to another site that I get off as fast as possible in case of a virus, I then go back to the AF screen -perhaps try typing a reply on threads sand see it it happens?

I wanted to ask if AI is tasked with the spell check on this site recently -? It seems like it might be the case as the spell check chooses correctly spelled but incorrect context words to drop in.
Thanks for making this site available - we appreciate it.

 

[Head Surfer]

No, the spell check is the same as it has always been. Unless you've added an extension to your browser for AI spell check, nothing has changed. Can you give me a screen shot of the site it redirects too? (The URL). If I have the url maybe I can track it down.

Also, try using a different browser and see if it happens.

 

[Mark K]

I'm getting the Macafee popup nearly every time only on AF. Win10. Sometimes it ties up my PC to the point that I have to unplug it to start over it ties up the system and slows it down to such a degree. If I'm on AF for more than 10 minutes or so its guaranteed to pop up.

 

[Head Surfer]

Please try another browser. Personally I wouldn't trust McAfee as it gives a lot of false positives. If you get a warning from Windows Defender then that would be something to worry about.

 

[Artemis Fowl]

Please send me a screen shot of the popup. Let me know everything you can about it so I can stop it.

There is no pop-up. I don't click anything. I just get redirected to a gobbledygook url...looks like one of those temporary redirect addresses...and the page stays blank. At that point I reload. It's random...hasn't happened since I posted but happened 3x before that.

 

[Head Surfer]

Send me a screen shot of the gobbledybook URL you are re-directed to.

 

[Mark K]

Please try another browser. Personally I wouldn't trust McAfee as it gives a lot of false positives. If you get a warning from Windows Defender then that would be something to worry about.

I don't use or have McAfee loaded on my PC. Another one that comes up is the "I am not a robot" captcha box, mostly black screen and when I "X" out of it the browser closes. Again, only on AF. Firefox.