What is quiet torture?

[gene]

I had this same problem all day yesterday using IE7. Clint told me to stop visiting porn sites

I did virus and adware checks and produced nothing.

I noticed this only happened with IE and no other browser.

The only way I made it go away was to reboot my computer.

We will check to see if the server got compromised somehow and I appreciate everyone reporting this.

Now Clint can publically apologize to me for making false accusations

 

[Audioholics]

Sorry, boss... lol. Everyone ELSE, however, should stop browsing porn.

 

[mtrycrafts]

...The search will result in a navigation failure and windows will use whatever is configured as the default search engine or default error page for navigation failures. That is why with some of these urls you get a search page with results that match whatever the keyword was in the s= part of the query.

Virus writers are are sometimes very clever but super annoying.

Yes, that is apparently what is was happening to my setup.

And, the name certainly is appropriate, Quiet torture

 

[mtrycrafts]

don't seem to have any problems with the main part of the site, .

Nor is there a problem when you use a link on a page back to another thread at AH. Curious but there is something here.

 

[Jack Hammer]

OK, I disabled all the stuff in my 'manage add-ons' under Internet Tools. No luck, still seeing quiettorture, and only here at AH. Interestingly though, since disabling all that my amazingly awesome (crappy) laptop with supersonic processing powering (Piii @577mhz) that was a gift from a friend so I could get back online is loading pages much quicker now. Quiettorture has actually managed to help me while irritating the cr*p out of me.

Jack

 

[sparky77]

let's just face it, AH has been hijacked by someone looking for data and whoever it is, is not going to get the data they want, unless they want to find out who's speakers are more popular and they don't need to hijack a forum to figure that out. or do they.....

 

[gollumullog]

This happens for me on other vBulletin websites.

It appears to load during the ads for a given page.

I haven't noticed it on the new beta of vBullettin. Only on version 3.5.7, 3.6.8.

 

[Audioholics]

This continues to elude me - largely because I can't reproduce it and it doesn't seem to be a "known" issue that I can track down around the web. It does seem to be vBulletin-related though it seems to come through some sort of combination of advertising and susceptibility.

 

[supervij]

I use the forum at digitalhome.ca, which uses the same version of vBulletin (3.6.8) and I haven't experienced any quiet torture over there. So it's not a vBulletin-wide problem, but something that's Audioholics-targeted, maybe?

cheers,
supervij

 

[MDS]

I don't think it is targeted at Audioholics. I remember having troubles with a CBrowserHelper about a year ago and I had to remove it all manually because anti-virus and Ad-Aware didn't detect it.

Here is how I would do it if I were a virus writer with too much time on my hands and wanted to be annoying but not really cause damage:
- When you visit my page that has the ActiveX control, download it to your computer and register as an add-on that acts as a 'hook' for link traversal so the browser sends it the URL first.
- Look at the Referrer field in the HTTP headers and remember it.
- Every time you visit a page where the Referrer is the same as when the add-on was installed, do the annoying query that will fail and redirect you to a page of results with my chosen keywords.
- For any other Referrer, do nothing; ie tell the browser 'nope I don't want to handle that url' and the browser does the link traversal normally. That way it is not consistent and it is harder for you to figure out why it happens on some sites and not others.

 

[AUtiger]

I noticed it about 3 days ago, maybe 2. This AH is the only site it appears on (that I've run across). Therefore "by isolation" it must be somehow connected w/ AH. "Book em Danno" uh oh showing my age

 

[Jack Hammer]

Don't want to cause a panic...

...Not sure if it's related or not, myself and a few others picked up generic trojan viruses a few times over the past week or two. Not entirely positive it was from here. But there was a thread about it.

http://forums.audioholics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=41876

I haven't had any issues since then. Again, it could have come from somewhere else.

Jack

 

[cerwinmad]

...Not sure if it's related or not, myself and a few others picked up generic trojan viruses a few times over the past week or two. Not entirely positive it was from here. But there was a thread about it.

http://forums.audioholics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=41876

I haven't had any issues since then. Again, it could have come from somewhere else.

Jack

Yeah the realtime scanner of my CA antivirus came up twice saying it had detected virus and deleted it, this happened while on this site.

 

[yettitheman]

Hmm... I notice that my back/forward buttons are not working.
If I restart the browser, then I'll be ok.

 

[cnjax]

I'm getting the quiet torture popup on firefox as well and it doesnt only happen on hitting the back button, going to a new pages also causes it to pop up.

 

[mouettus]

I'm pretty sure that the board is infected. They should backup the data (threads) and do a clean reset/format, then reinstall a clean version of the software.

 

[Matt34]

I'm getting the quiet torture popup on firefox as well and it doesnt only happen on hitting the back button, going to a new pages also causes it to pop up.

I haven't seen anything unusual while using Firefox at home, I am running ad blocker running though.

 

[mtrycrafts]

I haven't seen anything unusual while using Firefox at home, I am running ad blocker running though.

This bug seems to be the very first item when back paging with IE at least. A 2nd hit cures it but it is torture and it is quiets

 

[Audioholics]

I found it, killed it and we're taking steps to combat it in the future.

Suffice it to say there are kids out there with no jobs and nothing better to do.

 

[supervij]

Just noticed this morning that the torture was over -- thanks, Clint!

cheers,
supervij