Thaivisa stories on iPhone.

[NOWHERE]

Just curious if anyone else is having same problem as I'm having.

When I click on a link from my emails to a forum story I get redirected to celtra.com A advertising site.

At first I thought my phone my have gotten a virus but it is only happening on thaivisa.

Makes me think that the thaivisa server has been hacked.

[george]

Please scan your device for virus and malware.

What operating system do you have? iOS, Android?

[Neeranam]

Please scan your device for virus and malware.

What operating system do you have? iOS, Android?

doesn't it have to be ios if it's an iPhone?

[Jai Dee]

Topic moved to Forum Support.

/Moved

[NOWHERE]

IOS 8.1.3

How does one scan an iPhone for virus and malware? Is there a program or app you can buy?

[RichCor]

Probably related to an ongoing issue with Google Ads:

Mobile Web Surfers Again Facing Unexpected Redirects

TechCrunch | by Sarah Perez | Mar 19, 2015

We first made mention of this problem last year when a number of mobile users began to experience problems that involved them automatically being redirected to the iTunes App Store or Google Play when they were only trying to click a link and read a news article, for example, or use one of the mobile apps they already had installed on their phone.

At the time, a number of high-profile companies were impacted by the problem, including Imgur, the AP, NBC, Hearst properties, various newspaper sites and blogs, eBay, Perez Hilton, SomethingAwful, WeatherUnderground, TwitPic, Cheezburger.com, Slickdeals, Twitchy, NHL, and many others. And unfortunately, it wasn’t the first time this sort of abuse took place, either – it just came to a head because so many popular online destinations were affected around the same time.

The problem had to do with shady third-party ad networks that would run auto-redirecting ads on the sites and apps, which were hard for the properties themselves to detect or block because the advertisers would sometimes change their ad to behave this way after it was approved. Plus, some networks would sometimes buy inventory from others, blurring the line as to who’s responsible for the rogue ads in the first place.

AraLabs details the technique involved with the auto-redirect in a blog post on its site, which is fairly technical to delve into here. But company CTO Hadi Shiravi explains to us that the technique itself is still “very much working” and can be used by any ad network today.

“It would be extremely difficult to solve this problem on Apple’s side since differentiating between this redirect and other redirects is not trivial,” he also notes.