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Post by grendelsbot on Nov 12, 2017 16:27:22 GMT -5
I look at this forum from my work at times. When I do I notice our corporate firewall logs and blocks that my machine is trying to go to the site thebrighttag.com Looking up about this site it's considered malware/virus/redirect. I just created this thread and our firewall logged that the browser I'm in all of a sudden tried to go to that site. My machine has no virus, malware, etc. So it makes me wonder if the advertisements or other things on the pages on this site are contacting thebrighttag.com. Any moderators want to chime in about this? Here's an example from our firewall logs. You can see that site has a bad reputation by the database our firewall references. The source is my machine and the destination my machine tries to go to when I do something on this forum. You can see the reputation score (91) isn't good.
ProxyDeny: Reason: HTTP bad reputation Source IP: 10.10.30.87 Source Port: 62777 Destination IP: 54.197.240.201 Destination Port: 80 reputation: 91 host: s.thebrighttag.com path: /csx?tp=mm&random=1510519959067
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Post by Thunderkiss on Nov 12, 2017 16:46:39 GMT -5
Damn proboards.....
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Post by sanr on Nov 12, 2017 16:48:01 GMT -5
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Post by grendelsbot on Nov 12, 2017 17:03:57 GMT -5
Nothing gets installed on my PC. We have enterprise antivirus on desktops, servers and firewalls. I doubled checked for it anyway on my desktop. It appears for whatever reason when we go to this forum, this forum takes us to brighttag.com for whatever reason. I use abblock plus (the forum asks me to turn that off to help their advertisers every now and then but I don't) but it still seems to try to take us there for who knows what reason. |
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Post by sanr on Nov 12, 2017 17:58:25 GMT -5
Nothing gets installed on my PC. We have enterprise antivirus on desktops, servers and firewalls. I doubled checked for it anyway on my desktop. It appears for whatever reason when we go to this forum, this forum takes us to brighttag.com for whatever reason. I use abblock plus (the forum asks me to turn that off to help their advertisers every now and then but I don't) but it still seems to try to take us there for who knows what reason. That's weird. I'm not too sure how ad blockers work, but if they receive all the data from the web page, and present it without the ads, all happening locally on the browser on your PC (instead of using a proxy server), the ads on this forum which contain such links could possibly trigger the alert, as the request is being generated from your IP address, even though you don't see the ads. I've seen similar occurences on some unmentionable sites that have loads of ads all over the place. When the ad blocker is enabled, I see a blank space in place of the ad, but when I accidentally tap/click on that area, a new window pops up. |
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