Snow Leopard malware, Facebook redirects to other sites

[carobrock]

Feel free to respond with "you shouldn't be visiting porn sites", or with something more constructive.

Whenever I go to Facebook on any browser (FF, Safari, Camino, etc.), it redirects to some other site. Somehow I got malware on my machine.

So here are my questions:

1) How does malware do the redirects and where might it be residing?
2) Has this been an issue on Snow Leopard for anyone else?

After the first time this happened a couple of weeks ago, I did a clean install and it went away. As of 10 minutes ago, its happening again.

Please help!

 

[zoziw]

Feel free to respond with "you shouldn't be visiting porn sites", or with something more constructive.

Whenever I go to Facebook on any browser (FF, Safari, Camino, etc.), it redirects to some other site. Somehow I got malware on my machine.

So here are my questions:

1) How does malware do the redirects and where might it be residing?
2) Has this been an issue on Snow Leopard for anyone else?

After the first time this happened a couple of weeks ago, I did a clean install and it went away. As of 10 minutes ago, its happening again.

Please help!

About a month ago I posted a link to one of Canada's major national newspaper's website's on Reddit and started getting comments complaining the site was re-directing them (these came from both mac and pc users).

We think the problem was caused by one of the ads on the site as it only happened sporadically.

I don't use Facebook so I am not sure if there are ads on it, but if there are it might be one of those that is redirecting you.

 

[skp574]

Could be your DNS cache has been poisened in some way.

Have a look in this file: /private/etc/hosts and see if there are any entries in there that is directing www.facebook.com to an IP address.

That might be a good starting points.

You can always run from Terminal the command

dscacheutil -flushcache

That will clear the local DNS lookup cache on your computer.

 

[tooz]

next time, run Linux in a VM (i.e. Virtualbox) for all your porn. That way, there is no threat to your main system

 

[gnasher729]

Feel free to respond with "you shouldn't be visiting porn sites", or with something more constructive.

Whenever I go to Facebook on any browser (FF, Safari, Camino, etc.), it redirects to some other site. Somehow I got malware on my machine.

To be more constructive: You should try to meet girls/boys in the real world.

About your computer related problem: That kind of redirection is unlikely to be caused by malware on your computer, but by something that is going wrong on the actual site you are visiting.

 

[whooleytoo]

More likely to be your DNS server has been hacked. You could try using the OpenDNS servers and see if the problem is resolved.

 

[TheKnifeFight]

The problem isn't the computer, it's your router! I had the same issue and I'm guessing you're running a Linksys (Cisco) router. In order to resolve it, you're going to have to use a different firmware like WRT-DD.

Hope that helps!

 

[xi mezmerize ix]

you shouldn't be visiting porn sites