"Suspicious Activity" on the Forum

[Kim]

Yo Guys,

On several of my attempts to log onto the Forum, I've gotten a pop-up card directing me to this page. I have not logged into it for fear of it being a trick. This has only happened with the CEF site. After restarting my computer, I'm allowed (so far) to log in normally.

Anybody else seen this?

[crankbndr]

Never saw that before, good to ignore it. Sometimes clearing all temp. internet files and reboot helps.
Ebay was recently hacked and Rustys advice to use a CC is good but there is more to it than that.
The hackers got your full name, phone number, physical address, email address and password. Also after a set dollar amount of business with Pay Pal
they require you to link to your bank account, even though you use a CC, they call it "verified".
My current email address had no spam because I was very careful how it was used, now I am getting spam like this.
PayPal would never send this.
Its a jungle out there.

[RknRusty]

I haven't seen it but my Adblock Plus could be squashing it. It's pretty good at blocking popups. I rarely ever see one. I even have to custom disable it to allow wanted interactions to pop up on some sites.

[Kim]

Yeah, I get the occasional pop-up...but this is the first one to block me from logging in....

[Admin]

I have never seen that before and I'm sure its probably a scam.

[roddie]

Kim, I downloaded a free... model plan recently.. and wasn't careful about "unchecking" a box that allowed a bunch of extra CRAP to infiltrate my browser and hard drive. I had to reset my browser to finally get rid of it. It was an "RRsavings" (.com) package... and caused me a LOT of grief until I was able to get rid of it.

[Kim]

Thanks Guys...gonna put one of my Computer Ninja Buddies on it to see what gives...

[pkrankow]

Moving pop-up ads are really annoying. Moving login boxes are more so...oh wait that's normal here (and a PIA on my phone).

I seem to get funny stuff from time to time, especially when I am hopping devices, such as to upload pictures from my phone, and using the desktop (Win 8.1) and the 6yo mac book... Does the ad-service provider track by login? I've gotten the android ads on the other two devices in the past so I think they do.

Phil

[Admin]

Only log in here https://www.coxengineforum.com/login

Don't click on ads, I have the ads disabled for members so the only time you should see ads is if you are not logged in. I don't choose the ads that are displayed nor do I make any money off them. Never enter your password into anything other than on the login page. I or no other member should ask for you password. I don't have access to members passwords so I can't see what your passwords are, I can only reset them to something different.

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