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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.

maylightsys

Probably an issue on your workstation, I would start with checking for malware on it.

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.


maylightsys

[Mod edit] - redirect removed

@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.

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

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.

Ok. Understood. 

Thank you very much, infograf768.