WARNING: Your Flash Player plugin is outdated! Upgrade to continue

[her209]

Anyone else getting this message?

 

[sandorski]

Nope

 

[Artorias]

Yes and I don't even have flash installed on my system, I'm assuming its some advertisement that's trying to load.

 

[Balt]

Yeah. I'm running Chrome and getting a pop-up. It's similar to pop-ups I've seen on.. uhhh.. less reputable websites.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Yep getting it too.

Screenshot:



It also seems to be trying to load something as it just stays at "Connceting..." in the tab

 

[Childs]

Yeah, me too. And it tries to get you download an exe to upgrade flash.

 

[Red Squirrel]

delete - meant to edit my last post

 

[kranky]

Me also.

 

[Kaido]

Yup. Pretty much every page. One of Anandtech's advertising vendors got hijacked.

 

[jpiniero]

I got it on Chrome iOS of all browsers. It's definitely a drive-by virus of some kind.

 

[Kaido]

Directs to this page:

(warning: DO NOT CLICK) http://75.126.160.35/adobe_flashplayer_7.exe

 

[MrTeal]

Yeah, I get the same with a redirect to http://184.173.28.174/adobe_flashplayer_7.exe

 

[destrekor]

I was getting worried something was wrong with my system, but that seemed unpossible.

Everything checks out fine from all other websites.

Something isn't looking very good on this forum.

 

[brianmanahan]

Yeah, I get the same with a redirect to http://184.173.28.174/adobe_flashplayer_7.exe

yep that is the ip address i got as well

what the heck ATOT

 

[kinev]

Getting it on most pages here.

Shame, AT...shame!

X(

 

[Rakehellion]

Directs to this page:

(warning: DO NOT CLICK) http://75.126.160.35/adobe_flashplayer_7.exe

Redirecting me to http://192.155.192.104/adobe_flashplayer_7.exe

 

[Kaido]

Redirecting me to http://192.155.192.104/adobe_flashplayer_7.exe

Yup, I just got that one - two pages automatically redirected to that URL. So either an advertising hijack, or the forum code itself has been compromised.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Same on windows phone 8

I get redirected to the above IP address. I'll get redirected soon.

 

[thecoolnessrune]

Seeing the same thing on Google Chrome. Mine referenced ad.pagefair.com.

 

[Kaido]

IP addresses so far:

http://184.173.28.170/adobe_flashplayer_7.exe

http://184.173.28.174/adobe_flashplayer_7.exe

http://75.126.160.35/adobe_flashplayer_7.exe

http://192.155.192.104/adobe_flashplayer_7.exe

I'm on a Chromebook with the latest version of ChromeOS, no chance for a virus or funky local proxy issues. Either it pops up with the "WARNING: Your Flash Player plugin is outdated! Upgrade to continue" or else it automatically redirects to one of the IP addresses listed above & bounces me off the page I was reading or post I was typing.

 

[Red Squirrel]

All these DNS queries seem kinda suspect too, but I never tried a packet sniff before on AT so not sure if it's normal.

 

[brianmanahan]

WHAT THE HECK ANAND

caps

 

[Red Squirrel]

It seems to have stopped for me since I blocked that IP, but not sure if it's just a coincidence.

 

[sandorski]

spoke too soon, started getting it 20-30 minutes ago.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Yep, I even downloaded and ran latest Ad Aware and MalWareBytes to make sure it wasn't something on my end. At least now I know my system is squeaky clean.