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bibbitybobbityyhat · 15/07/2016 08:12

I'm not the most tech savvy person, can anyone help please?

Last night I was posting on Mumsnet and an advert for a sex chat site appeared out of nowhere which had a close up video of a woman using a vibrator on herself that completely filled the screen Angry.

How did I inadvertently do this? It was on the Louise Mensch thread, I followed a link to the tweet and read it, then went back to post my message. I think when I hit post is when the porn appeared but I can't be entirely sure. I couldn't work out how to get it to stop either for a minute, or how to close the page.

I don't want porn on my phone ffs! What can I do?

KateMumsnet · 19/07/2016 23:08

Hello again everyone

We're really sorry this has taken so long - the redirects are bloody horrid and we're mortified that you've been subject to them.

Unfortunately we've not been able to identify the rogue ad, so we're turning them all off now. This will take about 30 mins so please do bear with us till then.

In the morning we'll regroup and try again, and we might at that point enlist your help by asking some of you to download an app that makes it easier for us to hunt down the culprits, but we'll explain more tomorrow. Apols again, folks, really.

PresidentOliviaMumsnet · 19/07/2016 22:47

But we do understand why you've screen grabbed to show us as NE CRICKET PAS
Apols again

PresidentOliviaMumsnet · 19/07/2016 22:43

@AYD2MITalkTalk

Sorry Olivia Blush

Oh gosh, please don't apologise
I prob wasn't clear - what I meant was

  • screenshots of what's going on/where you're being linked from good sites to wrong uns= good
  • screenshots of porn = no thank you very much

PresidentOliviaMumsnet · 19/07/2016 22:41

WE've got tech working on this right now
In the meantime thanks to thoe who have posted helpful links - we'll remove those to prevent any extra traffic but thanks for refs
Please do keep any other instances coming so we can fix this

PresidentOliviaMumsnet · 19/07/2016 21:22

Thanks for all the screenshots of where it's happening folks ( we don't need that kind of screenshot)
We are getting to the bottom of it asap

KateMumsnet · 19/07/2016 20:27

Hi all

Just to clarify - have some of you had this happen when you clicked on links to Mumsnet threads?

And some of you just suddenly found yourselves redirected to a porn page, without having just clicked on anything at all?

KateMumsnet · 19/07/2016 20:17

Hi all - really, really sorry about this. We're alerting the tech team now and hopefully they'll get to the bottom of things pronto. We'll report back as soon as we've got more news.

DawnMumsnet · 17/07/2016 13:21

@Roussette

Bibbity... I am the virus person with the thread but it was from a link that someone posted.

Unfortunately it's turned out to be worst scenario imaginable, I have to go back to Win8.1 and basically start again with installing Win10. I just hope i can get it installed before the free update expires at the end of the month. Have had to back everything up, will lose all my programs settings etc and my laptop is now with a virus expert to do some of this costing £100. Even my homepage of google was a fake page as was all searches, everything has been compromised and that's just from clicking a link on here, so I hope your probelm is not as bad as mine.

Gosh, Roussette, we're so very sorry that your laptop has been compromised by what appears to have been a dodgy link posted on here. We really hope the expert manages to sort things and that you haven't lost anything crucial. Gutted for you at the expense, though. Sad

We'd always advise caution before clicking on any links that are posted online - we're sorry if this advice is too late for you, Roussette. If you're ever suspicious of a link, please don't click on it, just report it to us so we can check it out or remove it altogether.

We really hope your laptop recovers. Flowers

DawnMumsnet · 17/07/2016 13:14

Hi again bibbity,

If you're using an android phone, then you're more than likely using the mobile site. There IS no app currently available on android, only for iPhones (but we're working on it!) Smile

Has the dodgy porn popped up again since Friday? Our Tech team are on the case, but we're hoping you haven't been subjected to it again in the meantime.

DawnMumsnet · 15/07/2016 10:43

Hi bibbity,

Sorry to hear something dodgy has popped up on your phone.

We're going to move this thread over to Site Stuff and flag the issue to our Tech and Ads team to see if they can check things out.

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