I'm hoping someone here can help me out with this...it's the strangest problem.
I go to the message board "offtopic.com" pretty regularly and this seems to be the only site that I have seen problems with.
Twice in the past 8 months I could load up the main page, but when I clicked to enter the site, it took me to thewashingtonpost.com. I even tried googling one of the forums specifically and entering that way and it was the same thing, but a different page on thewashingtonpost.com. I brought this up on the forum and NO ONE else has ever had this happen. They thought I was crazy and assumed I had a virus....when I saw it I assumed the site was temporarily hacked.
Today, same site, similar issue. I can load the main page and then when I click to enter it takes me to an Invalid URL screen that says:
That number changes each time I try or if I refresh. Googling that reference number brings nothing up.
Now - at first I thought that this may be some sort of attack on my computer, a mac virus of some sort...but it can't be. It does it on every computer on my network including my iPhone. I used the iPhone to test on wifi and got the same error page. When I turned off wifi and switched to 3G, it loaded the site fine.
So something is going on, and I am assuming it has to do with either my wireless router or Time Warner Cable but I've never heard of anything like this.
I don't see any issues with any other websites...just that one.
Anyone have any ideas for me?
I assume in an hour, it'll be fine...because that's what happened the other times I've seen this problem - the site loads fine in a little while - but it doesnt make sense and honestly I'm a bit worried that my network may not be secure.
Any help would be greatly appreciated
I go to the message board "offtopic.com" pretty regularly and this seems to be the only site that I have seen problems with.
Twice in the past 8 months I could load up the main page, but when I clicked to enter the site, it took me to thewashingtonpost.com. I even tried googling one of the forums specifically and entering that way and it was the same thing, but a different page on thewashingtonpost.com. I brought this up on the forum and NO ONE else has ever had this happen. They thought I was crazy and assumed I had a virus....when I saw it I assumed the site was temporarily hacked.
Today, same site, similar issue. I can load the main page and then when I click to enter it takes me to an Invalid URL screen that says:
That number changes each time I try or if I refresh. Googling that reference number brings nothing up.
Now - at first I thought that this may be some sort of attack on my computer, a mac virus of some sort...but it can't be. It does it on every computer on my network including my iPhone. I used the iPhone to test on wifi and got the same error page. When I turned off wifi and switched to 3G, it loaded the site fine.
So something is going on, and I am assuming it has to do with either my wireless router or Time Warner Cable but I've never heard of anything like this.
I don't see any issues with any other websites...just that one.
Anyone have any ideas for me?
I assume in an hour, it'll be fine...because that's what happened the other times I've seen this problem - the site loads fine in a little while - but it doesnt make sense and honestly I'm a bit worried that my network may not be secure.
Any help would be greatly appreciated
