[Elecraft] Elecraft Website Hacked?

[Dave B]

You might want to use FireFox, or Chrome (Chromium) with the "Ublock
Origin" add-on installed. (I believe it will some time soon be available
for MS's Edge too, but as I've largely moved to Linux now, that doesn’t
bother me.)

You get the best of add blocking and malicious script prevention, while
allowing intentionally visited web pages to function as they wanted you
to see.   In essence, the best of AddBlock+ and NoScript, but without
the hassle.

In the case a site "Needs" you to see adds (some "commercial media"
sites etc) then you can allow such things on a case by case basis,
without compromising yourself on other sites.

If using FireFox, erase your browsing history and set it to not save
any, & have it erase all cookies when it shuts down, never save
passwords, and not use the master password facility (there are issues
with that, should your master pw get "lost"...)   Similar settings are
available within Chrome(Chromium) of course.

Then, each new browsing session, is just that, new...

If you still experience unwanted redirects, check your systems "hosts"
file for anything odd, also see if the same thing happens with a totally
unrelated system on the same net connection. (Tablet or phone on WiFi.) 
If so, your ISP could be sending you places you don't want to go...

No affiliation with any of the above mentioned "products", just a happy
user of some...

Happy New Year.

Dave G0WBX.


On 04/01/17 22:21, elecraft-request at mailman.qth.net wrote:
> From: Richard Fjeld <rpfjeld at outlook.com> To:
> "elecraft at mailman.qth.net" <elecraft at mailman.qth.net> Subject: Re:
> [Elecraft] Elecraft Website Hacked? Message-ID:
> <CY1PR16MB0125A606CFD37C35476EB233BF6E0 at CY1PR16MB0125.namprd16.prod.outlook.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" 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?