[Elecraft] Elecraft Website Hacked?

Ken Talbott ktalbott at gamewood.net
Tue Jan 3 06:47:06 EST 2017


Chrome behaved similarly for me - ON ALL
WEBSITES!  I quit using Chrome and
problem went away.
Ken ke4rg

-----Original Message-----
From: Elecraft
[mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net
] On Behalf Of Dave Fifield
Sent: January 3, 2017 06:40
To: Elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [Elecraft] Elecraft Website
Hacked?

I've been noticing that every now and
then, when I'm on the Elecraft website
looking around, my Chrome browser will
get re-directed to spurious ad websites
instead of the link I clicked on the
Elecraft site. Anyone else noticed this?

 

At least one of the redirectors was to a
website that pretends to take over your
PC and holds you ransom until you pay a
fee to unlock your files (which of
course is utter nonsense, since all you
have to do is use the Task Manager to
end the browser app and the problem is
gone).

 

I did some scientific research today,
and with the help of the good folks at
Avast! (the virus/malware blocking
service I use) and determined that a) I
have NO viruses, Trojans, adware,
malware, or any other nastyware, and
that
b) these browser redirects are ONLY
happening when I click on links on the
Elecraft website. I can browse other
websites with impunity and not see any
redirects - it's just links on the
Elecraft website that do it. 

 

This leads me to believe that, somehow,
the Elecraft website has been hacked or
otherwise loaded with an adware virus.
Please can someone at Elecraft have a
look at the problem and clean up the web
code ASAP?

 

Many thanks,

Dave Fifield

AD6A



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