Heh. Filefront forums got hijacked by someone's My Brute.

[Ionizer]

http://forums.filefront.com/

So how the hell did that happen?  Why hasn't it been fixed yet?  Does anyone have a brute that can smash that guy over and over?  A higher level brute can fight lower level brutes within a certain bracket.

Are people really that desperate for pupils that they will hijack a website to get them?

[Ts4EVER]

er... wut?

[Fuchs]

Sad and annoying. When browsing Off Topic I kept getting linked to someones MyBrute, come on guys that game is already stupid, atleast I think it's stupid but if your already going to hack sites for it. Seriously.

[Eat Uranium]

Shouldn't people like this be hacking the pentagon or something.  Seems like a very sad person to hack a gaming forum to some flash game just for more people to fight.  Probably lives in his mother's basement.

[Kradovech]

Someone posted this in general discussion:

I get it as well. For Firefox users goto options, advanced then the general tab there. Select the "warn me when a site tries to redirect or reload" That will stop it from moving away.
The chances are it is a advert that is doing it or some such thing. No doubt the powers that be are working on it and getting it sorted.

That worked for me

[VonMudra]

I hope they fix it soon....that's a major problem=/

[Ionizer]

From someone over in the FF Help Center:

The problem is caused by an advertiser breaking the advert rules. I suspect that someone will be having words with the people hosting the advertising campaigns.

While we are looking at how to best disable this you can work around it by disabling the meta refresh in your browser.

In firefox, you can type about:config to get into the advanced options. Change the "accessibility.blockautorefresh" value to true, and this will disable refreshing the page and the external redirect won't work.

If your one of the remaining sufferers on Internet Explorer you can do the same by going to security zones and then the miscellaneous section. Set "Allow META REFRESH" to disabled and it will stop the redirect.

Wonder what else could possibly go wrong for FF?

[Dukat]

Well, I don't care much. But that freakin my-brute pyramid stuff is getting annoying.

[jumjum]

I'm surprised they still haven't fixed it. Oh well, right now we can only dream of the day when net security improves to the point that anonymous banditry like this cannot go unpunished. What we need is not only a foolproof way to prevent stuff like that, but a good, solid dose of scorched-earth negative reinforcement, to make sure people learn to stop trying it. Like a way to make a foolproof identification of the hax0r and then a way to destroy every bit of his computing hardware and software. What a warm fantasy to lull oneself to sleep with: to imagine some Russian cyberterrorist not only getting thwarted when trying to spam-bomb or hijack 400-million computers, but for every bit of hardware he controls to suddenly fry, along with all his programs and data. Oooooh, that makes me all warm and tingly to think about it.

[Torenico]

I hate My Brute whit all the soul and heart.

[Admiral Donutz]

Where is the red phone when you need it?

[LordKhaine]

And this is why it's good for the mod to have its own forums

[GirlsHateMe]

Someone should hijack My Brute 

 

[Ts4EVER]

Yeah let's strike back!

anybody here who knows how to hack?

[Admiral Donutz]

And this is why it's good for the mod to have its own forums

It could happen here too, you need an admin to act. If one isn't around, well... usually n0e (the head admin or community manager) would have been online about now or a few hours ago.