Okay, some of you are getting redirected to http://x.vindicosuite.com/imp/?l=169943&t=h&u=&r=&rnd=82206905 with a title page of “Advert”.
x.vindicosuite.com appears to be related to some kind of malware.
Some of you have reported: Trojan.Win32.Generic
I doubt that it comes from Google who has a very solid security.
However, others have had that problem too: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/blogger/_rwBSluJk5k
One person claims SiteMeter might be compromised, so just in case I removed it too (it is useless anyway)
It ain’t coming from my machines, none of them are Window$.
Mediafire uses Java, so maybe your JVMs have been compromised?
Or Mediafire is compromised. I doubt it.
Dunno.
You can grab the same files one by one from these two locations:
http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/20150
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/03/364938.html
I have uploaded the same two files to Dropbox:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/0pr9zccl1hba97l/AABdyHXHgHRIChJ8a7FoBz5na?dl=0
And, just for the record. This is not the CIA, NSA or Mossad or some dark powers that be.
This is your computer.
And the real solution is STOP USING WINDOW$! That is what the “Win32” in the trojan ID stands for: Microsoft Windows 32 bit. Linux, BSD, Android and Mac machines will not be affected by this.
If you must use Window$, please at least use Firefox with the NoScript add-on.
I am sorry to have to tell you that I don’t have the time or, frankly, inclination to find out what is going wrong this time. Using Window$ is a de-facto consent to have your machine hacked, trojaned, virus-infected, backdoored, cracked, taken over, etc. etc. etc. A no amount of “anti-virus” “computer security” “firewalls” or any other external tools will protect you. In fact, most of them just make your machines slower and less stable.
Whatever is going on, I am very sorry for it but, forgive me, this is not my problem. This is your problem.
Kind regards and good-luck,
The Saker
People have dozens of reasons for using Windows. There is no need to get hostile with them for it.
x.vindicosuite.com is a simple ad server, similar to dozens of others….other sites are not so much infected with it as have joined it. It shows you a brief ad then sends you back to the site you wanted. In some cases you may even see a “skip ad” link.
It is quite likely people who have this DOWNLOADED IT THEMSELVES when they downloaded a free copy of Mediafire….which is “ad supported” in the free version. You probably “gave permission” by agreeing to something harmless-looking like being notified of updates.
Uninstall mediafire (use the uninstaller, don’t just delete it) then install it again, this time NOT accepting any extras.
Or just watch things on Youtube and be done with it.
“People have dozens of reasons for using Windows.” Windows is for people who are really not intelligent enough to use computers. Sorry if the truth hurts. If you’re intelligent enough to be visiting this site for your news, you’re intelligent enough to know about all the back doors and security vulnerabilities in ALL versions of Windows. If you’re browsing during your working hours from a company owned computer, at least learn about Pendrive Linux or one of the many other alternatives you have.
Windows is not the problem here. With 95% of the planet using windows it is the most profitable. All these things are there in every other system as well. Including the linux variations used by iran to control their reprocessing plants. Some of the worst ones are not even in windows but in the addons like mirc. People need to use like microsoft antivirus so it checks everything thats downloaded. It also checks the cache when a page downloads applets and stuff. It wont save you all the time but it helps. Heck this stuff is even in things like routers and control systems which is how the NSA takes control of machines. If it contains a CPU, it will be targeted for access. That also includes your phones! The easier they make something for everyone to use, the more easier it becomes to hack. Things like javascript and java applets have helped bring a lot of uses. In many cases I frankly have them all turned off but you cant if you want to use something which depends on such things. It is far easier for them to program it on java than C++ or something and runs on everything java. So they are not going to do it just so you might have it turned off.
With Opera you can turn this OFF or ON on an individual page basis! By default have everything turned off. And turn them on for sites you trust. Far easier than firefox global script control. Microsoft security has improved drastically in the last decade. They actually have hired some people who know what they are doing unlike before. Although from what I understand they are stuck between speed, ease of use, transparency, security and compatability.
Finally someone, who speaks out openly to stop using M$Win spying tool.
[from Blue]
I haven’t downloaded mediafire, or anything else like that lately, and advert did not return me to the blog. Perhaps this is a hacked version, or something made to look similar,or maybe even a bug, but malwarebytes did find something, and I think it’s new. I’m calling it malware. MBAM calls it adware.agent
No problems with it on the Linux machine, BTW — not for me, although it may be possible for a Linux system to pass on viruses to Windows machines even if immune itself.
well before you get over cozy with Linux study this:
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/12/richard-stallman-calls-ubuntu-spyware-because-it-tracks-searches/
http://lduros.net/posts/tracker-sucks-thanks-tracker/
unfortunately when you uninstall tracker it gets installed by the next install of any software…
you can stop redirect in windows with firefox,
tools – options – advanced – general – select warn me when sites try to redirect or reload web pages.
as far as blocking ads goes, you can do that by downloading a customised HOSTS file, use your favourite search engine to find more info on “bl;ocking ads using HOSTS file”
My first thought was that’s bollocks. Then I thought again and my second thought was… that’s bollocks too!
I regularly download podcasts from many different sites on many different topics. I have a slow and erratic internet connection via mobile and use Free Download Manager to make the downloads and resume if I suffer a dropped line. For all other podcasts I access, I right click on the podcast link, click copy link and paste that into Free Download Manager and it downloads quickly and easily. Two click is the norm for me.
Not with your posdasts Saker. Multiple clicks from one download link to another on Mediafire (or elsewhere) and then yet another on the download button (all the time waiting for the webpages to load via my slow connection) and then a failed download is the norm for me.
I have not, to my recollection, come across a website that is so difficult to get a download from!
Windows compromises notwithstanding some of this IS your end.
Easy YouTube downloads:
Go to Youtube for the podcast. Then put ss in front of “youtube” in the url adress: https://www.youtube.com/etc… , like this: https://www.ssyoutube.com/watch?v=gx0oKRfSdK4&feature=youtu.beto . This will redirect you to Savefromnet where one can download the podcast in many formats.
Easy Youtube download (#2)
In Firefox one can use the add-on “1-Click YouTube Video Downloader”. This is even easier than the ss option.
and here i am using windows on a mac… I feel stupid :D But I don’t keep anything important on my comp. anyways
xjlmt said…
Windows is for people who are really not intelligent enough to use computers…..
Or maybe for those people who are intelligent enough to realize that the vulnerabilities in windows doesn’t affect their personal lives or the use to which they put their computers?
The benefits of using Windows and its associated programs, for the limited use to which I put them, far outweighs the time and effort of change.
You display a form of arrogance to assume that just because people choose to do different things to you they are not intelligent enough to make appropriate decisions for their own circumstances. Sorry if the truth hurts.
Bizarre remarks – if attack dogs on OSes are in order here, then Apple’s destruction of Amazon-bought MP3s on hapless Macusers’ computers, recently in the news, ought to get people going..
I don’t think this is my machine because it is only a problem with this one website. If only one website gets redirected to a site I’ve never seen before, I strongly suspect that website has been compromised somehow.
I am using Linux and I was redirected to the advert page yesterday
Too darn old to figure a Blogger ID
I run Macs and iPad and it redirected from both.
So, it’s a hack on blogger.
Youtube was hacked at the same time.
Google is the enemy of the Globe. It works inside and for the NSA. It is an embed in the war against Truth.
Google blogger is the absolute worst platform for Vineyard. It allows them to do this with ease and impunity.
There are armies of hackers available to hack any Truthtelling source.
And since they know what other servers are used by Saker for posting podcasts, videos, they get other pipelines to use to work against the truth.
It started and hit everyone, didn’t it?
Was anyone not affected?
The proof there was something on Blogger, was iPad. That’s not an OS on a box. It’s iOS. Pretty tight system. Yet, redirect to advent x.vindicosuite.com. I never downloaded on iPad from any podcast server (it goes there through iTunes).
Therefore, rethink the source, Saker and others.
And I prefer to be paranoid about Google’s army of assholes. The top of that organization is sociopathic, a trio of sicko, criminal Elites.
OT: this article says the EU is showing big cracks over policies toward Russia:
http://www.sott.net/article/289949-The-Putin-Hollande-meeting-Why-was-Putin-in-such-a-good-mood
OT: this article says the EU is showing big cracks over policies toward Russia:
http://www.sott.net/article/289949-The-Putin-Hollande-meeting-Why-was-Putin-in-such-a-good-mood
Dear Saker, using silly labels such as »Windoze« or »Window$« etc and lecturing people on how Linux is so much better … or Firefox over IE … what is it good for?
Who knows about computers knows about Windows and Linux and their respective merits. To each their own.
People who don’t learn computer and Inet basics will face problems either way. Linux is not going to help them.
The issue here is probably rather that some people find it hard to navigate adware ridden download sites, which try to lure you into installing crap when you mean to download a file. For example, I wouldn’t tell my mother to just download a file from that kind of site as I’d fear she’d install some crapware instead … 8-/
This is not a Windows issue.
Last night this was happening to me as well on my iPad and my Mac.
@EVERYBODY:
A lot of you are confusing two issues:
1) the redirect which is a browser issue
2) a Win32 trojan detection which is on OS issue
The first is annoying, but does not put your machine to risk. The second one does.
As for being nice to Windoze users, I am. I am telling them the truth and warning them that their machines are inherently dangerous. Just think of it as cars. Would you tell your friends if their car was unsafe?
As for Windoze, it has no merits at all. It is bloatware and spyware out of the box, it is inherently insecure by its design, and it does nothing well. Windoze has only *two* ‘qualities’: a multi-billion dollar marketing budget and the support of the corporate/political world. That’s it.
And for those who would be offended by what I say my reply is simple: wake up or, if you really can’t, at least stop complaining or blaming others.
And if I hear any more of that nonsense about Windoze being safe or comparable to Linux the next time around I will simply simply send all complaints about trojans, viruses and backdoors coming from blogger or my own machines straight to /dev/null. I am sick and tired of people creating a problem and then blaming others or wanting others to fix it.
I mostly try to be nice to everybody, but the left side of the Bell Curve better stop acting like victims.
The Saker
@Saker:
I had the same problem running Mac OS X.
Uh oh.
I am a tech guy, too. I guess it’s time to install anti-malware AV software on my Mac.
“A redirect is a browser issue.” No, it CAN be a browser issue. Or it can be a site issue. Since this only showed up on one site – yours – I suspect the latter.
When I clicked your link yesterday, it wanted me to dowload “somethingorother.exe” and run it on my machine. Since I was at work, and didn’t want to corrupt the work computer, I just looked at the Cliff’s Notes (the pdf file). Pretty much all stuff I already know, so no need to listen to that long mp3.
Here at home, I’m using Ubuntu, so the .exe file wouldn’t have been able to run anyway.
I visit your site via work or through my iPad, I have very little control. I have little choice on what program I can use. You probably have other readers with similar problems
Erika
My main desktop is on Zorin, on a solid state disk, really super fast. The SSD is really a great investment: just for the OS and programs. Sometimes small irritations, like no Google Earth, or sketchup. I cannot do time lapse with my webcam on linux (for cloud movies). Adobe premiere for that.
But the 2004 XP laptop takes care of that part. It is useful to have an older machine on windows to run some software
It was reported weeks ago worldpress is compromised. Installing the latest version may help, at least for a while.
I have never been redirected, I have had another problem that may have started after one of the podcasts. It took a long time to load Sakers blog because of youtube embed scripts, other scripts and crashed shockwave flash player. I also had problems with Russia insider yesterday. Perhaps it only concerns me, but this problem did not exist before.
I followed your advice and installed No Script and that helped. Good. I ran Linux for years, but that is not possible now. I am stuck with this secondhand Windows minicomputer until I can afford to buy another, install Linux and transfer my files.
I got the redirect a few times one day, and each time I simply hit the back button to return to your blog. No problem since then.
Greetings
Regarding Firefox and Windows, another very useful addon is ad-block plus.
Apart from the default blocking list of advert websites, you can add your own rules so that you block whatever part you want in a website.
Just my 2 cents.
Hi y’all, just could not resist this.
Back in 1991 I started programming in Dos 5,then Dos 6,MS Windows v 2,
Win 3.1,Win 95/98.
We learnt many things like –keep it simple stupid = KISS!.
GIGO i.e. garbage in = garbage out.
And of course many more acronyms, even programmers have a sense of humour,..”why are you looking so worried? ..it is only 1’s & 0’s” …right!.
No computer system can ever be secure period !!!.
The heart of the computer is the CPU, this has what are known as ‘Rings of Privilege’,0,1,2,3.
The ‘kernel’ operates at ring 0 on an ‘Intel’ CPU,all other processes run on ring 3.
Ring 0 is the big boss,and can only be accessed via ‘interupts’.
The internet introduced such things as HTML,ad-ons,Java script, etc etc. Very easy to corrupt.
Back door Jack?….. only with complicit companies,I remember 20 years ago Microsoft had a big anti-trust issue with the USG.
Suddenly the issue went away,MS is now on board with the new reality.
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Recently I changed my ISP,within one week I was being bombarded with adds,names like ‘Ads.nxs.com’
‘TrknClk.com’it seems to me the ISP is in bed with the browsers.
Firefox,MS Explorer the same.
ISP’s do not control the keyboard or the mouse unless there is a deal!.
By the way,the Blogger text editor is the worst piece of code that I have ever experienced!.
Good code is elegant,blogger is definitely not that.
cheers.
My dislike of Microsoft extends to Apple, for the same reason – closed vs. open source. So, its philosophical. With Microsoft, it also has to do with Bill Gates, the richest sociopath on the planet (although the facebook sociopath Zuckerberg is a getting up there).
I refuse to make him any richer, or give his company control over my computer.
I avoid Microsoft like the plague – but still have to work with it. I find it hilarous that with Windows 7 for example, it will sometimes take 10 minutes to shut down while it installs “patches”. These are unending, which Fedora or CentOS linux requires far fewer, and gives you control on when to install them.
Microsoft is for slaves. Apple is similar, but for richers slaves who are gay.
I have Windoz 7, but use Kaspersky as my virus eater. It is really good and I recommend it to all!
Jimofolym
Saker, may I ask a favour? NoScript in Firefox substantially speeds up my webbrowsing, but though I have allowed youtube on your blog, I can’t rightklick a youtubelink and copy it. I only see a black square, nothing else.
I know you are overloaded with work and I don’t want to be demanding, but it would be great if you could provide youtube-links. You will not only help me, you will help those who don’t know how to go to youtube from your blog.
Hi larchmont. I was not affected…I use windows, but it was installed for me by a engineer because I am not intelligent enough to know WTF…
But…I prefer sound audios by Saker because, although Saker himself seems to think very highly of the lecturer…I got bored. Would rather listen to podcasts by Saker.
Yes Saker, I can see by all the different options that you’ve given people that you’ve definitely done enough for sleepyheads.
Microsoft is the Monsanto of operating systems. Easy to get locked into, hard to get out..
anonymous at 16:50
I have never been redirected, I have had another problem that may have started after one of the podcasts. It took a long time to load Sakers blog because of youtube embed scripts, other scripts and crashed shockwave flash player. I also had problems with Russia insider yesterday. Perhaps it only concerns me, but this problem did not exist before.
No,it’s not just you.I have the same exact problem now also.My guess is that it’s some Govt.agency messing with the Sakers site.But,that’s just a guess.
Funny – I had this issue with Firefox but *not* with IE ( figure THAT one out ).
Anyway, tempest in a teapot – back to our regularly scheduled programming, yeah?
“Microsoft is the Monsanto of operating systems. Easy to get locked into, hard to get out..” I like that! I’d also add something like ‘prolonged exposure may cause high blood pressure or even cancer’. I run a simple setup with Debian “Testing”, and most every site loads well for me. I also use a ‘hosts’ script, which sorts out some of the sites which want to redirect you or add a bunch of third-party cookies. You can read more about that if you search for mvps.org/hosts or someonewhocares.org .
The free anti-virus Avira is now using this exact trojan as part of it’s advert campaign to get users to upgrade to their pay version.
It’s naive to think by using Linux one will avoid spyware. The run of the mill capitalist malware, sure, it’s not worth the parasite’s time yet to mess with such a small user population. But government and more dedicated private crooks have long been very interested in Linux, and every other possible OS programming. It’s their job to do this and over the last 15 years I’ve seen many a websayan brag about their use of Linux. Even as long as a dozen years ago, the most prolific websayan “sitter” at the Asian Times forum claimed as their “home site”, the ownership of a phony computer programming company website that specialised in Linux coding.
This is not to defend Windows, or Mac, or attack Linux, BTW. Linux use will reduce the random “private” parasites, but one is no less transparent to “authority” than they are with the commercial programming. Keep that in mind and do the workarounds as if dealing with the Microsoft rubbish, accordingly.
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Really, Saker. You mean you don’t think Windows is a product of the CIA, NSA, Mossad and other dark powers that be?
[from Blue]
I’ve using Windows for about 12 years now, because that’s what I could run, what came with the cheap machines I had, and because I was spending 12 to 16 hours a day doing ‘politics’ and couldn’t handle the down time to switch over to Linux. Even now trying to set up Linux on my new machine while running my old Emachine with Windows is killing my time.
I installed Clam AV for linux (Mint) yesterday and ran it — this on a new machine I have done hardly anything with, and it came up with 41 ‘threats’. I have no idea what to make of that.
I still haven’t figured out how to install Comodo for Linux.
Linux is chaotic, and almost impossible to get useful information on, despite the plethora of articles and docs and other assorted information about them — yes them — not just one Linux but dozens of distros.
Better than Windows, but the last time I saw some decent OS software was DOS or OS/2. It seems that the Linux crowd LIKES being obscure, confused, and unprofessional — prefers magical incantations, secret cults, and incoherent file structures and system utilities.
You should not have to be a programmer to run a computer (as a matter fact I AM, or was, a programer, but you shouldn’t have to be, and even as such I am having a devil of a time with it). I could go on about this for pages. (And no, people, everything is NOT a file even while handled as a stream.)
Time for BRICS nations to write a truly decent OS and collection of apps. Breaking the western monopoly on computer software is one of the more effective things they could do to bring down the empire.
__Blue
Anonymous said…11 December, 2014 21:10
“Time for BRICS nations to write a truly decent OS and collection of apps. Breaking the western monopoly on computer software is one of the more effective things they could do to bring down the empire.”
100% agreement there.
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[from Blue]
I took off Linux Mint. It’s been fighting me for weeks — who needs and OS that fights with them?
I tried to copy the home directory over to a backup disk and I got the message I didn’t have permission for some of the files. To copy them? As administrator? Gedit-2?
It’s this weird Ubunto/Mint thing, and it’s like Microsoft with the ‘system user’ that you have to do a hack to become, and have full access. I repartitioned and a piece of Mint was still there, trying to boot. I deleted the partitions and a piece of grub rescue was still there, clinging to life.
Then I installed Gnu Triqel. and it looked like the same thing — no root user in graphic adduser screen — just ‘standard and administrator’ both with limited access. Don’t these clowns understand this is MY machine?
I swear this hits me like the fascist empire, where the US thinks they own all the countries. It’s the same sick mentality of ownership and ‘keeping the user’ ignorant and controlled — and mystified.
A was asking the mint forum where the installed packages ended up and someone said, essentially, I shouldn’t have to know. I asked do I have to write down the names of the programs I install in a notebook so I didn’t have to guess while wading through over 2,300 files in one huge usr directory? (They don’t show up on the menu unless they have graphical interface.)
He thought it was a good idea. That was what I did 25 years ago before anyone had the bright idea to use the computer to organize and remember data.
It reminds me of dealing with the US ‘health care’ system. There’s something wrong with the culture and thinking in this hegemony which permeates everything — even putative ‘open software’ industry. The mindset is wrong.
__Blue
Hey Blue…
As an old Ms Dos programmer I was intrigued to read Tim Pattersons in depth description of his OS.
At the time he wrote DOS he was a post grad writing a term paper.
It was DOS that was the subject of the term paper.He wrote the entire system in Assembly language.
He wrote it as an improvement over the existing 8 bit OS everyone was using,his employers over at Seattle systems put it on the 8″ disks in use at the time.
Bill Gates and Paul Allen were smart business men and they found out about QDos.
Gates & Allen programmed in Basic,they had the IBM deal and approached Patterson and Seattle systems with a deal,the rest as they say,is history.
‘An Inside look at Ms Dos’can be read @ ‘Patterson Technologies’
cheers
[from Blue]
Gates messaged the DOS he bought — he didn’t write it. The only thing he wrote was an early version of BASIC, and it was fairly primitive and stinky, actually.
He’s not a good programmer, and doesn’t understand software — he’s a control freak, and understands marketing, monopoly, capitalist business practice, chicanery, deception, and secrets, — and he had good luck. That shows in how Windows was written and works (or doesn’t work), and there is plenty of dicey (and undocumented) things in DOS too.
It’s looking like I’ll likely end up with Debian, dual booting with XP for the transitional period. Ubuntu is beginning to leave a nasty taste in my mouth — too ‘corporate’ and cultish. Sort of like PBS & NPR — not exactly the alternative they are supposed to be.
__Blue
This sort of puerile fanboy rant is not helpful. Modern (post-xp) Windows systems are as structurally secure as any OS out there. Just keep it updated and don’t install stuff from unverified sources.
Ubuntu is great if you don’t mind having applications crippled or settings changed by system updates, then spending hours on forums figuring out how to fix the situation. Having to piece together drivers is no fun either. IMHO the project is a sloppy mess.
OSX security isn’t that great and iOS security is even worse. Apple just does not do software that well. Buying NeXT fromm Sun Micro as the foundation for OSX was a great move, but the more Apple added bells and whistles the buggier it became. Their implementation of EFI was horrible.
For me, the choice is obvious – the most versatile, trouble-free and stable OS available for personal computers.
Hey folks, time for a fun little OS trivia quiz! What’s the most influential OS you may have never heard of? The first one with a virtual terminal capability, which was melded with the Xerox PARC GUI idea by Apple to produce the windowing Mac GUI, and which is the foundation of the LINUX multiple desktop feature? Hint: It was a UNIX system.
When windows came out soon after the commodore amiga came out as well as the apple lisa. Amiga had true multi tasking and was a great system and fantastic hardware, companies like newtek started off making editing and ray tracing stuff using the amiga and shows like babylon5 was created using it. Yet no one was intrested. They all wanted PC! And bloated OS2 which was far better than windows but still nowhere close to the functionality of the amiga.
Until very recently windows never came close to how good multitasking was on the amiga. There are other systems but many of them cost a lot more like SGI, SUN etc.. Still many lower cost systems, none of which took off.. makes you wonder what windows has that made it successful. It was a beast and unfunctional. Even the mackintosh was far better. BUT, windows does have backdoors built in since way back. At first this part was not even encrypted and you could find the NSA key in memory. But since they have backdoors into apple stuff now as well as I am sure sun and sgi and all the others, would be very few without direct access. And even those without it built in, the US government pays over $50,000 per exploit and even microsoft never fixes stuff until upt an year later even if everyone knows to give the NSA an edge.
I am not sure what anyone can do about it. Linux has its own faults.. Maybe not built in exploits but that only makes it easier.. Anyoen remember the swiss company that sold security that had a built in decryption key for the NSA? They are still around.. So its not just US companies that do it.
Alien Tech said: “Anyone remember the swiss company that sold security that had a built in decryption key for the NSA?”
It was/is Crypto AG. They sold encryption machines (to Iran, among other countries) that allowed NSA to decrypt the ciphertext. For the full story see here.