Virus scam appearing only when on Mumsnet

Ironically I'm now getting the blank screen in this thread?

When are you going to sort it MNHQ or are you just hopping not enough people are being inconvenienced ?

Getting this again today. Comes in as a plain white page after you get a couple of screens into the post. Also got the mcaffee fake popup thing.

Specifically on this page from the newsletter.
www.mumsnet.com/talk/money-matters/5028697-if-you-grew-up-poor-and-are-now-rich

Today is just hopeless to try and use the site.

Dont have the time to note every occurance, but blank pages, virus scams, notifications not working, ....

Has somebody tried to patch in a fix and it has only not helped but made it worse.

Surely by now someone has diagnosed the issue.

Its just getting impossible - and a big embarrassment to @MNHQ

Yup, getting black pages here and had previous virus warnings

and it's back again.
Not being funny but it really shouldn't be this hard to solve. When you looked into it last time, what did you find?

Site has been terrible all day - can't look at a long thread without the screen going blank and the anti-virus warning kicking in. Must be one of the ads that's fake. Going to have to give up on Mnet for a couple of days until they sort it.

OK, so last night the site was unusable for me. Constant blank screens and virus spam. Today it's fine. The difference? I turned my VPN on.

Had this last night and today

Have only been on MN for about half an hour and already had too many blank pages after clicking on a link in list of notifications.

And then when trying to start a new thread, so no links to clink on, the page I was typing title into just disappeared and couldn't use back arrow!!

As before Windows 11, Firefox, McAfee

It's not a real virus, it's a scam trying to trick you into thinking you have one. By clicking on the "I'm not a robot" you inadvertently give the scammer permission to send pop up notifications to your computer.

If you go into your browser settings you can switch the notifications off - this is what I've just had to do as I clicked on the "I'm not a robot" screen too.

I had this over the weekend and it has just happened again - using Edge on an HP laptop. I can get rid of it by going into my notifications and switching off permissions for those most recently granted (always the spam site/link).

I also use NORD VPN and it has been blocking MN on and off for a week or so now, presumably because it is detecting these threats. It really is getting annoying and is obviously a known issue judging by the number of comments on here.

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On another thread about the freezing that’s what mnhq say to do 🤷‍♀️. I’m sure their advertisers would be delighted

Just had something pop up saying unusual activity detected and I needed to click on “I am not a robot” to proceed. I stupidly clicked on it, then loads of pop ups saying I was infected with a virus and the macafee screen popped up. Really hope I haven’t infected my computer.

This is happening to me also. I don't want to use an adblocker but, here we are.

I had it again today, but the main issue has been the page going blank on virtually every thread, within a minute of it loading. I've reluctantly turned the ad blocker on and it seems to be doing the trick.

Getting this again today.

Happening repeatedly tonight (on multiple pages). Presumably a dodgy add with embedded code is redirecting users to a fake spammy webpage with the 'virus warning' thing. Most recent redirect was blocked by google Chrome automatically. Maybe check the ads (not try to pass the blame to users and their browsers / cookies) as it is coming from the MN site.

Forgot to mention, last time was on Gardening thread Why isn't my Amaryllis flowering?

McAfee virus scam and blank pages off and on here today too. Using Chrome on PC. Here is the latest image.

Twice in the last 10 minutes, the second time just a blank page.

Thanks - yes, but was really mentioning as it is another everyday web function you wouldn't normally think about.

Its just wearing me down.

Just as the notifications aren't working.

snap, its driving me bonkers, then the mumsnet page just goes blank....

Try doing a "back", then click back on to the page you want. e.g. I opened a thread at my previous post then clicked on the latest page in the thread. After reading a couple of posts got the blank screen, hit the browser back button then clicked on the relevant page again. Read a few more posts & it went blank again though 🙄

This is maybe another glitch, but not sure about starting a new thread.

So I click on a link to a new thread or comment, and the page I am on disappears, but the page the link is to just never appears. And screen refressh doesn't help.

This on top of notification not working properly any more, the whole hijacking by scams, and now this, makes using MN almost an act of endurance.