[Elecraft] Elecraft Website Hacked?

[Matt Murphy]

I've used Chrome for years with no problems.  You might have accidentally
installed a malicious "extension" for Chrome. I had a situation last year
with an extension that was not flagged by Google as malicious in spite of
many 1 star reviews and was also not flagged as malware by anti-virus and
anti-malware programs. It was designed to set the referral cookie for eBay
and Amazon to benefit some specific party. It was called something like
"eBay helper".  I'm hoping that Google starts identifying scam extensions
like that as malware, but it's possible one has been installed on your
machine.

Check to see which Chrome "extensions" you might have installed.  To do
this, navigate to this URL:

chrome://extensions/

I recommend uninstalling any that you are not certain of the origin of.

73,
Matt NQ6N

On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 4:00 PM, Richard Fjeld <rpfjeld at outlook.com> wrote:

> I agree.  I got rid of Chrome for the same reasons you describe. The
> latest Firefox is good.
>
> Dick, n0ce
>
>
> On 1/3/2017 7:46 AM, Don Wilhelm wrote:
> > David,
> >
> > I access the Elecraft website 3 to 4 times a day.  Mainly the manuals
> > and the order pages, and have never had a problem.  I use Firefox.
> >
> > 73,
> > Don W3FPR
> >
> > On 1/3/2017 6:40 AM, Dave Fifield wrote:
> >> 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?
> >
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