Gunbroker Probably Hacked

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drcook

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Be aware, Gunbroker has probably been hacked. I put a post up on Shotgun World letting people know that something was going on and others are now responding back that they had the same page diversions and did what I did, ie: turned off machine.

If your are in doubt that something got through

you can double check your machines, over and above your current anti-virus by going here:

http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

Dave
 
Yikes !
Interesting that you mention this because for the last several weeks I have been getting emails from them. The weird thing is I have never dealt with them, so how is it they have my email address. Needless to say I have never open one and block it but somehow they keep getting through.

I view 'hackers' as terrorist !
 
Some are terrorists, all are thieves. We need to stop calling them hackers and call them felons, with serious jail time, including the teenage punk just playing around.
 
I've gotten it several times in the last few days. It redirects to a bogus "fix your machine" site that won't let you close the page normally. You have to close IE via Task Manager.
 
UPDATE !!!!! On Gunbroker Issue

I received a reply from their site admin today:

It was a bad ad from a network partner, not a virus or malware. It took a while to track down but it has been taken out of the ad network.
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I've had problems with ads that Gunbroker runs on their sight. Many slow down your machine, and yes, sometimes redirect you. Believe me, it's not just one ad. Gunbroker runs some of the scamiest ads on their website that you will find. I like and use Gunbroker, but boy, do they let just about anyone advertise on their sight!
 
I have not had any issues whatsoever from Buds or Gun BrokerI frequent and buy from both quite regularly. It could be your computer you know?
 
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Gunbroker is a good gun auction website. It could be a great auction website. Personally, I think it should broaden out a bit to items beyond just guns. It hasn't really tapped into the knife market like it could. It could broaden out even further and become the "anti-ebay". There are a lot of things it could do, but just doesn't. If they focused more on running a great auction website rather than loading it up with scam ads for "free electricity", etc. they wouldn't need scam-ad revenue. Real advertisers would pay and they could control those ads better.

Some suggestions:

1. Go after the automatic knife market and other things Ebay rejects for "political correctness";
2. Take shill bidding seriously and actively discourage it - this is where Ebay fails;
3. Don't permit sellers to bombard with umteen million listings for the same thing - this is also where Ebay fails.
4. Work to get individuals (in addition to dealers) to list things for sale. This is what draws users/buyers. It is also where Ebay fails.
 
Peggysue, I have noticed this, but just over the past two days. What a pleasure! I'm wondering if this will continue, or if they go back to selling ads to the free electricity peddlers.
 
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