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Jan 9, 2015 6:21 PM CST
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Name: Vicki
North Carolina
I helped beta test the Garden Planting Calendar I sent a postcard to Randy! Charter ATP Member I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Forum moderator Region: United States of America
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A couple hours ago, every time I came to ATP, I was redirected to an advertisement for Good Housekeeping. I scanned the machine, it found an issue, fixed it, and wanted to reboot and scan the data before opening windows and now it is fine. That was really scary Crying It's working fine now but it only happened with ATP. I had several other tabs open and they were fine. Weird, huh?
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Jan 9, 2015 6:37 PM CST
Name: Jennifer
48036 MI (Zone 6b)
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That happening to me twice last night on my iphone!

I don't know where I was redirected because I closed it out so fast. Didn't happen again after those two times
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Jan 9, 2015 6:45 PM CST
Garden.org Admin
Name: Dave Whitinger
Southlake, Texas (Zone 8a)
Region: Texas Seed Starter Vegetable Grower Tomato Heads Vermiculture Garden Research Contributor
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How strange!! I've never heard of this happening before. Sad
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Jan 9, 2015 6:46 PM CST
Name: Jennifer
48036 MI (Zone 6b)
Cottage Gardener Houseplants Spiders! Heucheras Frogs and Toads Dahlias
Hummingbirder Sedums Winter Sowing Peonies Region: Michigan Celebrating Gardening: 2015
I cleared my browsing history so I can't even tell you where I was redirected
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Jan 9, 2015 7:38 PM CST
Name: Jennifer
48036 MI (Zone 6b)
Cottage Gardener Houseplants Spiders! Heucheras Frogs and Toads Dahlias
Hummingbirder Sedums Winter Sowing Peonies Region: Michigan Celebrating Gardening: 2015
It just hapened again! consumernews247.com
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Jan 9, 2015 8:12 PM CST
Garden.org Admin
Name: Dave Whitinger
Southlake, Texas (Zone 8a)
Region: Texas Seed Starter Vegetable Grower Tomato Heads Vermiculture Garden Research Contributor
Million Pollinator Garden Challenge Charter ATP Member I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Garden Ideas: Master Level Region: Ukraine Garden Sages
So what's happening here? You load the ATP homepage and instead it goes elsewhere? Does it load the ATP page first and then go to a different page?

Is there a popup or something or is this happening in the actual browser window? I need more details.
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Jan 9, 2015 8:21 PM CST
Name: Jennifer
48036 MI (Zone 6b)
Cottage Gardener Houseplants Spiders! Heucheras Frogs and Toads Dahlias
Hummingbirder Sedums Winter Sowing Peonies Region: Michigan Celebrating Gardening: 2015
I load ATP, i tap to pick a forum and it goes to that site. No new window, no pop up. Leaves ATP and goes to that site
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Jan 9, 2015 8:22 PM CST
Garden.org Admin
Name: Dave Whitinger
Southlake, Texas (Zone 8a)
Region: Texas Seed Starter Vegetable Grower Tomato Heads Vermiculture Garden Research Contributor
Million Pollinator Garden Challenge Charter ATP Member I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Garden Ideas: Master Level Region: Ukraine Garden Sages
Could you accidentally be clicking on an ad?
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Jan 9, 2015 8:29 PM CST
Name: Jennifer
48036 MI (Zone 6b)
Cottage Gardener Houseplants Spiders! Heucheras Frogs and Toads Dahlias
Hummingbirder Sedums Winter Sowing Peonies Region: Michigan Celebrating Gardening: 2015
Is there an ad on ATP for that site?
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Jan 9, 2015 9:59 PM CST
Name: greene
Savannah, GA (Sunset 28) (Zone 8b)
I have no use for internet bullies!
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Looks like this has happened on other sites; this says something about 'scumware' doing an attack. I won't pretend to understand what that means, but hope this helps.

https://productforums.google.c...
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Jan 9, 2015 10:23 PM CST
Name: Jay
Nederland, Texas (Zone 9a)
Region: Texas Region: Gulf Coast Charter ATP Member I helped beta test the first seed swap I helped plan and beta test the plant database. I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database!
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I am guessing it's something on your computer. I don't know how the do it, but malware are able to insert thing on a web page, that make it look like it's page of the page. I would run as many malware checkers I could. Run whatever antivirus you use, plus spybot search and destroy, malware bytes and any other you can find.
wildflowersoftexas.com



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Jan 9, 2015 11:41 PM CST
Name: Jennifer
48036 MI (Zone 6b)
Cottage Gardener Houseplants Spiders! Heucheras Frogs and Toads Dahlias
Hummingbirder Sedums Winter Sowing Peonies Region: Michigan Celebrating Gardening: 2015
It is on my iphone
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Jan 9, 2015 11:44 PM CST
Plants Admin
Name: Suzanne/Sue
Sebastopol, CA (Zone 9a)
Sunset Zone 15
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Daylilies Houseplants Foliage Fan Birds Butterflies Bee Lover
According to the link greene posted above, it's a problem with some Google ads, there are a few mentions of that consumernews247.com, starting on Jan 7 and then more recent.
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Jan 10, 2015 2:32 AM CST
Thread OP
Name: Vicki
North Carolina
I helped beta test the Garden Planting Calendar I sent a postcard to Randy! Charter ATP Member I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Forum moderator Region: United States of America
Purslane Garden Art Region: North Carolina Celebrating Gardening: 2015 Garden Ideas: Master Level Million Pollinator Garden Challenge
It lets me be on ATP for about 3 seconds and then another website comes up. It's weird - and scary. Crying

It seems to be fine now that my anti-virus did whatever it did Shrug! I wish I could be more helpful Dave but I'm so clueless about this stuff *Blush*
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Jan 10, 2015 3:55 AM CST
Thread OP
Name: Vicki
North Carolina
I helped beta test the Garden Planting Calendar I sent a postcard to Randy! Charter ATP Member I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Forum moderator Region: United States of America
Purslane Garden Art Region: North Carolina Celebrating Gardening: 2015 Garden Ideas: Master Level Million Pollinator Garden Challenge
ps to say that no, I did not click on an ad.
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Jan 10, 2015 9:23 AM CST
Thread OP
Name: Vicki
North Carolina
I helped beta test the Garden Planting Calendar I sent a postcard to Randy! Charter ATP Member I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Forum moderator Region: United States of America
Purslane Garden Art Region: North Carolina Celebrating Gardening: 2015 Garden Ideas: Master Level Million Pollinator Garden Challenge
It did again and I grabbed this

http://lemode-mgz.com/fd/9701/...
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Jan 10, 2015 9:25 AM CST
Thread OP
Name: Vicki
North Carolina
I helped beta test the Garden Planting Calendar I sent a postcard to Randy! Charter ATP Member I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Forum moderator Region: United States of America
Purslane Garden Art Region: North Carolina Celebrating Gardening: 2015 Garden Ideas: Master Level Million Pollinator Garden Challenge
Had to do that quick - and then something came up from my anti virus that said whatever that link above is, is web forgery and has been blocked because of my preferences.
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Jan 10, 2015 10:27 AM CST
Plants Admin
Name: Suzanne/Sue
Sebastopol, CA (Zone 9a)
Sunset Zone 15
Plant Database Moderator Region: California Cottage Gardener Garden Photography Roses Clematis
Daylilies Houseplants Foliage Fan Birds Butterflies Bee Lover
That lemode-mgz was the other ad thing mentioned in greene's link. A problem with Google.
My gardening Blog!
Handmade quilts, new & vintage fabrics in my Etsy store. Summer Song Cottage
Instagram Sewing posts
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Jan 10, 2015 10:28 AM CST
Thread OP
Name: Vicki
North Carolina
I helped beta test the Garden Planting Calendar I sent a postcard to Randy! Charter ATP Member I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Forum moderator Region: United States of America
Purslane Garden Art Region: North Carolina Celebrating Gardening: 2015 Garden Ideas: Master Level Million Pollinator Garden Challenge
Better google's problem than my computer.
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Jan 10, 2015 11:12 AM CST
Name: Jennifer
48036 MI (Zone 6b)
Cottage Gardener Houseplants Spiders! Heucheras Frogs and Toads Dahlias
Hummingbirder Sedums Winter Sowing Peonies Region: Michigan Celebrating Gardening: 2015
I wonder if it is happening to other users besides Vicki and me?

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