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    Why is it only with this site? My work iPhone 5 did a couple of times yesterday- and it has never redirected to the app function. Ipads and an MBP that all go to the same sites don't do it, so the fact that a sterile computer doesn't do it I don't think is a definitive answer.

    I do notice on my MBP that I see a banner ad for an in vitro fertilization service? I thought that was a little weird. It was one of the larger banners below the matrix ads.
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    Cross-site scripting, malware coding, and other loopholes are beyond my expertise, but the way I understand it, if certain items lurking on your computer see certain other keys/indicators from ads, etc they utilize those vulnerabilities to progress their design.

    It could be something from the way our ads run here that is triggering a response, but considering the datacenter guys don't have a bead on it, our administrator does not have a bead on it, and several other people with what sounds like properly secured browsers don't have anything we can point to, it would start to lean towards worms, trojan horses, or other malware lurking on client side devices.

    I've gone on in my iphone 6+, and nothing happens. I've gone on with an iPad. Nothing. Non-secured IE10. Nothing. Safari unmodified. Nothing. Fresh instance of Firefox. Nothing.

    After a certain number of failures to recreate the events, the judicious technician must consider client side issues that are outside his control. Hence my suggestion....
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    I appreciate your efforts in working on this.

    FWIW, I'm experiencing this on a brand new laptop, behind my company's stout firewall. I have experienced this with my old computer too, and the new one, so I don't think it's spyware or anything. But I know very little about such things, so, I default to more knowledgeable than myself.

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    It just happened to me again (twice actually) and I took a screen shot. Not sure if it's helpful but here it is. And as others have noted it's ONLY happening on this site. It's weird how you can go several hours or all day without it happening and then it will happen multiple times in short order.

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    Does that only happen on your phone?

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    Was happening on my iPhone5 and just started on my iPad .

    If this is client side, what tools do people,suggest for iOS/Mac devices?
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    What threads are you folks in when this occurs? On an iphone right now, no redirects.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SHIVAN View Post
    What threads are you folks in when this occurs? On an iphone right now, no redirects.
    This one. I'm just clicked the link in my gmail app to view the thread and was redirected to the App Store.

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    Last edited by Travis B; 08-27-15 at 13:09.

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    Ads are embedded in iframes with the protocol to redirect to the App Store, itmss:// or itms-appss:// on iOS devices for example. "frame busting" is a way to get Safari to automatically redirect to the App Store without you even clicking on the ad. iOS version 8 was supposedly going to stop the redirects but there have been reported workarounds.

    Ad companies are notorious for allowing shady ads to get through without fully vetting them or even supplying the ads themselves. Then perhaps when it's discovered an ad is malicious then they yank it.
    That's what I'm leaning toward since some of you guys are regularly having the issue and some cannot reproduce it at all and it doesn't seem to be happening on other sites at the moment.
    Last edited by Waylander; 08-27-15 at 16:33.

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    It's happening to me on my gmail app and it happens on armslist occasionally.

    Quote Originally Posted by SixEight View Post
    Ads are embedded in iframes with the protocol to redirect to the App Store, itmss:// or itms-appss:// on iOS devices for example. "iframe busting" is a way to get Safari to automatically redirect to the App Store without you even clicking on the ad. iOS version 8 was supposedly going to stop the redirects but there have been reported workarounds.

    Ad companies are notorious for allowing shady ads to get through without fully vetting them or even supplying the ads themselves. Then perhaps when it's discovered an ad is malicious then they yank it.
    That's what I'm leaning toward since some of you guys are regularly having the issue and some cannot reproduce it at all and it doesn't seem to be happening on other sites at the moment.

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