Anyone else have this problem accessing the site ?

I usually don't access BGO through bookmarks, because I have so many of them, that it would just drop to the bottom of the list, and make it harder to access.
And I usually don't type it in manually, because there's a certain page I like to go to, whose address is hard to remember.
I usually access through the "drop-down url address box" based on memory of your previous sites pulled up.
But sometimes I clear all history, including that. So then I will go to Google, and type in BGO.
But here's the problem - many times, over the period of a long time, including many consecutive attempts, when I click on the BGO link in Google, it will take me to a malicious site. First, the link on Google looks perfectly valid - the description of the site is valid, it has all the other sub-links for BGO listed, and when I hover over the link, it shows the actual BGO link in the lower left.
But when I click on it, it goes through this "re-direct" process, and takes me to this wierd and malicious page, and my Anti-Virus goes wild with all kinds of warnings. THEN, it won't let me close the page, When I try to X out of it, a pop-up comes up asking me if I'm sure I want to leave the page. And no matter
which answer I choose, it doesn't close the page. The only way to close the page, is to do CNTRL-ALT=-DELETE and close it through Task Manager.
Things is, this ONLY happens when I search for BGO on Google, and click on it, and no other site !!

My question is where this is the result of

A) An internet or Google issue
B) A BGO issue....or
C) A virus or some issue on my own PC
 
Awesome Boone. I can only imagine the possible problems with upgrading vbulletin. Never used it but I've done WordPress and others and none of them are fun when you have the level of customization :)

If you're on an android phone you can clear cache by opening your browser, hit menu, settings, privacy and security, clear cache.
I imagine iPhone is similar
 
When you say it's 'still happening' are you talking about the bgobsession link on Google taking you to a malicious site? Check again - Neophyte's been doing some fixes in the background. When I use Google, brings me to the site normally.
 
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My testing (as of 9:20 pm) shows it working correctly.

edit: by the way, did something you guys do mess with the political asylum forum? that thing disappeared for me weeks ago, and now i see it again... i just figured either I said something and was removed from it, or other people said something and it was determined it was best to shut it down :)
 
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That, at least, was not a tech issue. We decided to abandon the 'unmoderated forum' experiment. It's open now, but we'll moderate it just like any other forum.
 
Clearing my cache worked on my home computer, never had the problem on any other machine.

My testing (as of 9:20 pm) shows it working correctly.

edit: by the way, did something you guys do mess with the political asylum forum? that thing disappeared for me weeks ago, and now i see it again... i just figured either I said something and was removed from it, or other people said something and it was determined it was best to shut it down :)

PA was put in time out for a bit, but is now back.
 
When you say it's 'still happening' are you talking about the bgobsession link on Google taking you to a malicious site? Check again - Neophyte's been doing some fixes in the background. When I use Google, brings me to the site normally.

Actually, it seems to be getting worse. Not only is it happening when I use to Google to find the site, but it's happening when I type in the URL bgobsession.com into my browser link.

Odd thing, is it seems random. Sometimes it happens, and sometimes it doesn't happen, even when attempting to access the site the exact same way.
 
Actually, it seems to be getting worse. Not only is it happening when I use to Google to find the site, but it's happening when I type in the URL bgobsession.com into my browser link.

Odd thing, is it seems random. Sometimes it happens, and sometimes it doesn't happen, even when attempting to access the site the exact same way.


Yeah, we're aware and have our server host looking into it.

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