Clicking Stats tab on a Hub page caused link to "App Attack"

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   Sally's Troveposted 12 years ago

   I wonder if this has happened to anyone else?
   
   
   
   The site is origin-ics.fivemillionfriends DOT com. The Norton alert in the lower right-hand corner reads: "Norton blocked an attack by: Fake App Attack: Adware Installer Download"

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      Wesman Todd Shawposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      A few days ago mine weren't working.  If I clicked on "stats" on top of any hub - the default thing would open - where you see your total page views and sources for that hub...but I couldn't get into "hub metrics" or see my daily tally.
      
      But that was two to four days ago, and it's all working for me now.  ...but it's early in the day!  I'm not expecting problems, and hope yours are ironed out forthwith.

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   Shelly McRaeposted 12 years ago

   When I click on 'stats', nothing happens. Nothing opens up at all. Is there an issue with this feature?

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      Sally's Troveposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Good question. I haven't been able to repeat the problem I saw earlier today (a click on stats leading to an outside malicious site), but I also haven't experienced what you have.

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   Michael J Rappposted 12 years ago

   I've had that happen a couple of times but never anything that set off my virus alerts.  It took me to the Yellow Pages of all places, and a couple of other odd but seemingly benign locations.  I figured it was an HP glitch of some kind.

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      Sally's Troveposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      This is good information. Maybe it is an HP "glitch."

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         Anti-Valentineposted 12 years agoin reply to this

         One that I sincerely hope is fixed ASAP.

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            Michael J Rappposted 12 years agoin reply to this

            Me too.  I ran a virus scan and a few other diagnostics for Windows and my PC does not seem to have a virus, but it is still disconcerting.  And weird.

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   Shelly McRaeposted 12 years ago

   Ok, the stats tab is working again. Perhaps just a hiccup??

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      Sally's Troveposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Who knows? It shouldn't have happened in the first place. If it's a problem on HP's side, then they need to deal with it. If it's a problem with a respectable browser like Chrome, then at least HP ought to have some helpful info.
      
      That clicking on Hub stats goes to a site that activates my Norton anti-virus software is not a good thing.

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         Shelly McRaeposted 12 years agoin reply to this

         I agree, that is kind of scary.

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   Marcy Goodfleischposted 12 years ago

   The stats feature is where several of us discovered we were targeted by the fraud click incident the other day. I wonder if there is some work being done on that part of the site (or data mining) as a result of that happening?  Maybe it is being tweaked.

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   Richieb799posted 12 years ago

   What browser are you using?

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   Michael J Rappposted 12 years ago

   I just clicked on the "edit" button in a text capsule of one of my unpublished Hubs and was redirected to some weird page.  My AVT virus program put up an alert saying it just blocked some Blackhole Exploit Kit virus. 
   
   Any possibity the HP site is compromised here?

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      Sally's Troveposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      So, this "weird page" redirection is not something only I am seeing. Your question is a good one. HP?

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   Paradise7posted 12 years ago

   My screen went gray and my cursor froze when I tried to edit a hub this am.  I opened HubPages in a different window, managed to save my hub, and then closed the frozen gray screen.  Every once in a while things like this happen with either the "edit" feature or the "stats" feature here on HubPages, and I've sort of learned to work around it.

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      Sally's Troveposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Yes, these things you describe have happened to me as well. Maybe it's a browser issue. But, when clicking on your HP stats takes you to a site that your anti-virus software alerts, that's another issue.

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   Anti-Valentineposted 12 years ago

   Where is HubPages staff with any sort of official response to this? This seems to be pretty serious. I hope the engineers are looking in to this.

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