Site downloading "current.dms" file

[tobefirst ⚽️]

I've clicked on a few links this morning in the Site and Forum Feedback forum and each time, a file called current.dms was downloaded. The file size is 1 byte.

This isn't happening on other websites, just MR.

Any idea what is going on?

 

[arn]

hmm. no clue. What browser? Still happening?

arn

 

[sman789]

I've clicked on a few links this morning in the Site and Forum Feedback forum and each time, a file called current.dms was downloaded. The file size is 1 byte.

This isn't happening on other websites, just MR.

Any idea what is going on?

Any way you can show us a screenshot of the threads/posts containing the links?

 

[tobefirst ⚽️]

hmm. no clue. What browser? Still happening?

arn

Any way you can show us a screenshot of the threads/posts containing the links?

Thanks for the responses and I apologize for my delay in following up. It hasn't happened since Monday. I surf from the main site page, and was happening on a few (perhaps all) of the links that were in the sidebar that day. I would click on the number next to the thread title to jump to unread posts in that thread and the file would be downloaded. A couple of the threads I would have visited include

[Merged] Interest in an iPhone or iPad App for MacRumors.com
Definitive MacRumors Forum Rank List (Includes 'Secret' Ranks!)
Is there a posting delay for new members?

I can email the file that was downloaded if you'd like to have a look at it. Malwarebytes didn't find anything on my system after the download. I obviously haven't opened the file.

 

[sman789]

Strange, the threads you've linked aren't working but I know the threads still exist.

Let us know if it comes up again and we can try to get on the problem quicker.

 

[0388631]

Looked it up in an old thread Arnold posted in it was a bad ad. Bad as in badly served not baddies bad. I've never seen this myself, but on the PC side it's usually an empty octet stream file which is annoying. Sometimes browser bugs screw up HTTP requests and get served a bad file, too.

My Mac usage rarely involves browsing.

 

[Phone Junky]

I just started getting this same thing. Weird.

 

[Juicy Box]

I just had it happen to me twice.

It happened the second time when opening up the link to this page form a google search.

 

[PigsOnTheWing]

I'm getting a current.dms download with every single visit to the forums right now.

 

[sman789]

I just had it happen to me twice.

It happened the second time when opening up the link to this page form a google search.

I'm getting a current.dms download with every single visit to the forums right now.

Are you both using Safari on Macs? Any extensions being used?

 

[Juicy Box]

Are you both using Safari on Macs? Any extensions being used?

I was using Safari on a Late 2012 iMac running High Sierra.

I am pretty sure that I was not using not extension, but I will check when I get home.

 

[ARK]

My computer just auto downloaded a current.dms file visiting this thread.

 

[MSastre]

I just had the same thing happen four different times. What is happening? This was never a problem before.