Automatic forwarding from ads?

[Borke]

Hi Coach,

I've noticed this behaviour for a few weeks, when after navigating to BBT, I am immediately forwarded to a different site (spritted.com). This only happens occasionally, and no malware or anything was detected. I'm still not 100% sure if it's only BBT where this appears (human recollection etc.), but it's certainly most noticeable here.

I have installed an ad blocker now, as recommended in forum discussions about this ad (again: spritted.com). Just wanted to let you know, because I generally don't mind seeing ads, but this was a little irritating.

Borke

 

[Nikolai II]

What computer, OS, browser etc. were you using? Just to complete the report.

 

[Borke]

This has happened both at home and at work. It's Windows 7 both times, i7 PC at home (don't know the exact specs of the work PC). Two different browsers, though, Chrome at home and Firefox at work.

 

[Coach]

Hmm thanks for letting me know, I'll look into it. Not had anyone else mention it yet.

 

[Nikolai II]

Hi Coach,

I've noticed this behaviour for a few weeks, when after navigating to BBT,

How do you navigate to BBT? Do you google the name to get a link, follow a bookmark or write in the address manually?

 

[Borke]

How do you navigate to BBT? Do you google the name to get a link, follow a bookmark or write in the address manually?

I write in the address bbtactics.com/forums/ manually.

 

[Borke]

How do you navigate to BBT? Do you google the name to get a link, follow a bookmark or write in the address manually?

I should add, by the way, that the forwarding happens not just on the initial call of the web site, but also on subsequent loadings (i.e. when clicking on "Forums").

 

[Coach]

/forums/ is the old forum address when I updated the forum to the new software it changed to /forum/ (note the s is gone) wonder if that's anything to do with it, there were redirect problems with the old software which was one of the reasons I changed software in the first place. There may be a few instances of the links somewhere on the site that have the old link, but it should be set up to redirect you to the new one automatically.

 

[Coach]

I've also adjusted some of the ads that allowed to be visible on the website as I found some suggestions for some that may be causing it.

 

[Borke]

Thanks for the reminder, Coach! I am aware of the change in address, it's just laziness (and auto complete) that keeps me using the old one . It would surprise me, though, if that were the cause, as the "forwarding add" also sometimes appeared in the middle of browsing the forum, when I clicked on the "Forums" main link, and therefore used the correct address with /forum/.

 

[Coach]

Yeah I suspect it was those ads I've hopefully now blocked.