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When I surf to Twokinds website, the comich and all the usual stuff gots displayed. But then the website gets redirected to a site which tries to install a "MediaPlayer" update - my virus scanner opens an alert when this update gets installed.

Either the comic-displaying website got hacked and some malware DL code injected, or one of the ad banners tries to trick users into installing malware.

HSishi wrote:When I surf to Twokinds website, the comich and all the usual stuff gots displayed. But then the website gets redirected to a site which tries to install a "MediaPlayer" update - my virus scanner opens an alert when this update gets installed.

Either the comic-displaying website got hacked and some malware DL code injected, or one of the ad banners tries to trick users into installing malware.

I don't think it's the website, it might be vicious adware on your computer itself. Same thing happened to me a while ago with youtube. I'd start watching a video and then I got redirected to some advertisement. I would get a registry cleaner, since I think adware like that is in the registry.

This is a known issue with the website ads. You should not need to scan your computer unless you accepted the malware "update." I've been working with KeenSpot to try and resolve the issues, but there are a lot of ad sources and it's hard to track down where the malware is coming from.

Turaiel wrote: I've been working with KeenSpot to try and resolve the issues, but there are a lot of ad sources and it's hard to track down where the malware is coming from.

I registered just to say that the malicious ads are still there on the mobile version. They may still be there on the desktop version, but I took keenspot off my adblock whitelist after the first malicious ad appeared so no idea if they're there also.

the mobile version is especially annoying because they occasionally redirect completely off the twokinds page and require clicking a dialog box to restore browser control.

irnub wrote:I registered just to say that the malicious ads are still there on the mobile version. They may still be there on the desktop version, but I took keenspot off my adblock whitelist after the first malicious ad appeared so no idea if they're there also.

the mobile version is especially annoying because they occasionally redirect completely off the twokinds page and require clicking a dialog box to restore browser control.

Unfortunately we're stuck with it until Keenspot does something about it. They tell me they're working on it but I've seen no progress thus far and it's been well over a year.

Hello! Okay, so I never got the activation email as Taxouck (note the single K), that I registered with another email. I asked it to be sent about ten times over the last few months, but still nothing (I did check the spam folder too). Is there anything you can do, or am I condemned to having to use my personal email with a phony nickname (am I even asking/signaling the problem at the right place)?
Sorry in advance for the trouble.

Sorry, I can only deal with website issues, and the forum is not part of that. I did look into getting this issue fixed and I thought it was resolved. You'll need to PM a forum administrator. Try aj or Yash.

Sorry about that!

It seems that at least for the last 10-15 minutes, the site is down.
At first there was some redirect to some perl'ish missing resource (http 403 at /php.fcgi/index.php), now it is completely down (conn refused).
Does that count as bug to be sent to 'tech' board, or just a minor downtime?
Looks fine for me. According to https://dnsquery.org/dnsquery/twokinds.keenspot.com/ANY it should be 66.220.2.19, so it seems the site is down.

que wrote:It seems that at least for the last 10-15 minutes, the site is down.
At first there was some redirect to some perl'ish missing resource (http 403 at /php.fcgi/index.php), now it is completely down (conn refused).
Does that count as bug to be sent to 'tech' board, or just a minor downtime?

I was sleeping at the time, but probably minor downtime.

I could only see something like that being a true bug if it persisted for several hours, or had a consistently recreateable result that wasn't dependent on the webserver being overloaded.

Again, the advertising is out of our control. I know, it's beyond ridiculous. I wish I could do something about it but I really cannot. Keenspot has not, to my knowledge, been able to track down where the bad ads are coming from. Frankly, the problem brings more shame to us than anything and we are powerless to fix it.

The most important thing is protecting yourself by blocking ads on the site, but please consider using the PayPal donate button on the bottom of the page (it replaces the square ad space) if you do so.

Perhaps Keenspot will kick it in gear when their ad revenue starts dropping?

UPDATE: Keenspot has agreed to remove the Lijit/Sovrn ad provider, which I think might be the source of the majority, if not all, of our problems. The changes might take a day or two to take effect, so we'll see what happens.

Please report here if you encounter any additional issues.

Minor bug : The "é" of "Fiancée" in Laura's class descitption (characters page) shows as a black square.

I'm unsing Firefox, under both linux and windows 7

Samantaz wrote:Minor bug : The "é" of "Fiancée" in Laura's class descitption (characters page) shows as a black square.

I'm unsing Firefox, under both linux and windows 7

Thanks, I'll get on that. Probably an encoding issue.

Edit: It'll be rolled into the next site-wide update.

Nope, sorry. That sounds like a problem with your network or Internet connection.