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getting redirected from www.joomla.org

Post by maylight » Tue Oct 23, 2007 2:04 pm

Good day.

I hope this is the right area to post this since I figure the Foundation should be the one to know.

I've been trying to land on http://www.joomla.org but I get redirected to

Has anybody else experienced this?

Thanks.

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Re: getting redirected from www.joomla.org

Post by Tonie » Tue Oct 23, 2007 2:22 pm

Probably an issue on your workstation, I would start with checking for malware on it.
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Re: getting redirected from www.joomla.org

Post by maylight » Wed Oct 24, 2007 1:49 am

Tonie,

Good day to you.

Thanks for the reply.

I checked the workstation and it is negative for malware.

I also realized that the redirect URL wasn't attached to my original post. Here is it again:

I tried connecting via a different ISP and I was able to connect to the joomla.org homepage and did not get redirected (btw my IP address here was 202.57.98.70).

I reconnected using my original ISP and I got redirected again to  (the IP I have is 121.1.63.86).

Is it possible that somebody (a hacker maybe?) has placed a redirect script on http:\\www.joomla.org that targets a specific range IP addresses and redirects these specific IP addresses to the URL I quoted above?

Is there another explanation for this? Is this still a sign of malware behavior on my workstation?

I hope for your understanding and indulgence about this matter.

Thank you again for your help.


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Re: getting redirected from www.joomla.org

Post by infograf768 » Wed Oct 24, 2007 5:00 am

@maylight

Please do not post anymore dubvious urls in public.
Use the e-mail you get from the profile of a Moderator.

Moving this to Site and infrastructure.
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Re: getting redirected from www.joomla.org to a ghana something

Post by maylight » Wed Oct 24, 2007 4:15 pm

infograf768

Good day to you.

Thank you for the reminder and for the reply.  Thank you also for moving this message to the appropriate topic location.

I apologize for the oversight regarding the URL.  I was just hoping to provide information on this puzzling redirection issue I'm experiencing.

However, it seems another person has experienced the same thing. 

A post by geefland yesterday  has somewhat the same experiences as I have had

geeffland wrote:FYI,

I am sure you get notices like this all the time, but lately the main Joomla.org pages seems very sluggish... most of the time I get the header and the left menu bar but the other content is very slow... just a few minutes ago I noticed a message in the browser waiting on ghana... so I am not sure if your site links to other sites which may be causing the slowdown...

Greg


I think there's a problem somewhere. I'm still getting redirected away from the main page to that ghana location only a tad slower.

Is it possible that the main page has been compromised?

I'd gladly welcome any reply.

Thanks again.

maylight

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Re: getting redirected from www.joomla.org

Post by infograf768 » Wed Oct 24, 2007 4:35 pm

I think Tonie has already replied to you above.

We do not experience this issue.
Believe me, if we did, we would have got hundreds of reports  ;)

It is likely that your workstation and also the workstation of this other user are subject to malware.
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Re: getting redirected from www.joomla.org

Post by maylight » Thu Oct 25, 2007 1:50 am

Ok. Understood.  :)

Thank you very much, infograf768.


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