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Random porn pages on iOS Safari

I have this issue also on thechive.com. I get redirected to a badoink page then onto a hardcore porn site. It's frustrating.
 
I had the same issue. I think it has something to do with flash advertisements, or I should say fake flash advertisements. I was trying to view a live sport of sportlemon.tv when I accidentally tab in one of the advertisement on the right side and immediately i was redirected to a porn site. :( not good.
 
Can anyone 100% confirm that after a full factory reset the device wasn't used to browse porn sites? So far that's the only link I can find. It seems that some porn sites are installing a virus on the phone.

I have Private Browsing permanently switched on for Safari and have regularly wiped the device but the redirects happen to me too.

Am I the only one that's going to admit to browsing porn sites since the factory reset? Honesty will help us troubleshoot this problem people! :)
 
rocobo said:
Can anyone 100% confirm that after a full factory reset the device wasn't used to browse porn sites? So far that's the only link I can find. It seems that some porn sites are installing a virus on the phone.

I have Private Browsing permanently switched on for Safari and have regularly wiped the device but the redirects happen to me too.

Am I the only one that's going to admit to browsing porn sites since the factory reset? Honesty will help us troubleshoot this problem people! :)
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Ever since my last post about this, I haven't been to the website(thechive.com) where the popup would happen. Since then i havent had the popup come up once. I believe they have a have a virus or something in one of the pictures they posted of a hot girl from which they may have gotten from a sleazy site. So maybe whenever you go to a page on the site, the picture will be in a previous archived album that you can choose to go to. That's just what my thinking is, because its only happened when I go to that one site and only on certain pages of said site.
Also I'm pretty sure Private Browsing just doesn't keep track of your history on your device, nothing to do with helping keep a virus away. I have no problem admitting I look at porn on my phone, but have never had any problems of getting the popup to happen while looking at it.
 
Simple solution

I've had this same problem for a while now and tried just about everything and nothing worked. Then one day was bringing up the site and while the page was still loading I double tapped in the address bar to bring up the keyboard and this stopped the site from loading and there was no redirect. It's a little tricky since you have to double tap almost when the page is fully loaded, takes one or two times to get it right, but does work. This is not a permanent solution but it does allow you to see your site without being redirected.
 
So has anyone figured out how to solve the problem with "badoink" porn fake app popping up? I'm the only one who uses my IPad and I know that I have not visited porn sites which might be linked to these pop-ups. I have cleared out my history and cookies and hope that helps. The site it has popped up on is: mobilevids.org. Please let me know if there have been resolutions to this problem.
 
The problem is not your iPad, this is caused by ads on webpages, that sometimes redirect people using mobile devices to porn pages.

Contact the admins of the pages where you encounter this problem and tell them they have ads on their page that redirect people to porn.

This redirection doesn't happen all the time - to hide this malicious function, they also only redirect people using mobile devices like iPhones, iPads and Android devices.

Thread about this issue at XDA Developers
 
Robert.Walter said:
... I'm glad I found this discussion and intend to keep monitoring it. I think I will also send a link to my posting here to the apple security link someone posted above.
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I'm still occasionally having the porn pop-ups, and there seems to be a strong relationship to Cult of Mac ... Either when entering CoM or clicking on a link in CoM.

Tonite it was coming from an Ars Technical comment page to CoM, was linked to error.reporo.com.

Last night it was coming from the CoM front page to a CoM article, was reroute s to an empty page for sex****teen.com.

What is going on here, and how can I stop it? (Maybe stop visiting CoM?)
 
Robert.Walter said:
Last night it was coming from the CoM front page to a CoM article, was reroute s to an empty page for sex****teen.com.
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Hi,

I'm encountering the same redirect the last days, but from international news sites (like foxnews.com or the spanish marca.com sport site). The pop up is the same empty page from the same URL above, sometimes from another porn site (extreme***) - really annoying!

It's not possible to reproduce the redirect. The only things I could observer
are:

  • I'm using the iPhone 5 with iOS 6.1.3, connected via Wifi.
  • the redirect/pop-up happens usually one time a day (after the occurrence I usually delete the Safari history and cache)
  • Safari settings: cookies enabled (only for the site), JavaScript enabled too
  • happens in Safari private and normal mode
  • a simple router reconnect (with different IP address) could not reproduce the event.

It's really annoying and I'm thinking about using another browser, but I really like Safari and I'm concerned about a possible corruption of my iPhone.

I'm thinking about doing a factory reset and writing an email to Apple support too.
 
*** Update ***

I made a factory reset of my iPhone (back to an empty 6.1.3 iOS), but the redirect to the adult site happened again. Further I installed Google Chrome for iPhone ... and the same redirect happened too. So therefore I could exclude a problem with my iPhone or Safari.

With a reconnect of my router (new IP address) and a new access to foxnews.com I was able to reproduce the "event" :(

I sniffed the internet traffic of my iPhone (connected to my Mac) with Wireshark. I now have a Wireshark log which shows the possible redirect from "adforz.com" to the annoying (and maybe illegal) adult site.

Could it be some kind of traffic hijacking of an adserver? Maybe it's getting triggered by an iOS device browser header?

I wrote a mail to FoxNews hoping the tech team knows something about this thing from other customers.
 
Hanzor said:
*** Update ***

I made a factory reset of my iPhone (back to an empty 6.1.3 iOS), but the redirect to the adult site happened again. Further I installed Google Chrome for iPhone ... and the same redirect happened too. So therefore I could exclude a problem with my iPhone or Safari.

With a reconnect of my router (new IP address) and a new access to foxnews.com I was able to reproduce the "event" :(

I sniffed the internet traffic of my iPhone (connected to my Mac) with Wireshark. I now have a Wireshark log which shows the possible redirect from "adforz.com" to the annoying (and maybe illegal) adult site.

Could it be some kind of traffic hijacking of an adserver? Maybe it's getting triggered by an iOS device browser header?

I wrote a mail to FoxNews hoping the tech team knows something about this thing from other customers.
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Possibly the DNS server(s) that is used on the phone, the router/modem, and/or the ISP itself?
 
techcpm.com

This advertising company is one of them that is including a javascript redirect to the badoink site.
It's firing off when I switched to using the ipad 2 user agent.
 
I stumbled across this forum because I've been having the same issue with my iPhone 4S on iOS 6.1.2. It is jailbroken. I noticed something weird the other day that I am not sure is related, but this seems strange anyhow. If I do a normal Google search my browser flashes a redirect message for just a split second. Like I said, could be unrelated and as of yet, I haven't found a solution for random p*** redirect.
 
ipad porn redirect

All of a sudden I am redirected to a Russian porn site on the Ipad. Tried all the usual and recommended fixes I've read about on this site.

Contacted Apple, they said they are not responsible for sites visited by owners. They also said this could not happen and they are not aware of such problems and/or complaints.

Anyone else contacted Apple concerning this issue?
 
Hey, my wife experienced an illicit ad from badoink too. We didn't try to troubleshoot or fix it since our son is grown up and out of the house, but figured I'd add this to the thread. The site is a Taiwanese hosted news site.
 
DTJO said:
Same problem here.
I have restored the iPad via iTunes but this morning when I opened safari I was redirected to a random porn page.
I had this on multiple (official news)websites.

Don't know what to do now.... :(
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So here's what to do! Plug your iPad into your computer, Launch iTunes and click on the iPad tab. Then go to Applications and delete every Game Center game and Social networking. Then do a hard reset by holding down Power/Lock and Home. Then Go to settings -> Safari then turn on limit ad tracking. Then clear cookies, history, data and turn on Private Browsing. That's what helped me for this on my iPod Touch 4th Gen and iPad 3rd Gen.

Hope this helps!
iTechHelper
 
This did happen to me and the sites were

sexdatesclub.com/. Random letters and stuff.
****book.net/ Random letters and stuff
And it said " this contains stuff about your friends that you don't want to see or something.

I was on GameSpot reading how to get rid of this and it popped up in my window. Then I pressed back and BOOM! It was back. I use a Unmodified iOS 6.0 and it kept happening. Read above for tips on how to stop this Adult Site redirection. And what I forgot to say is... Turn off wifi And connect to someone else. If this problem persists. Contact your ISP.
 
iTechHelper said:
So here's what to do! Plug your iPad into your computer, Launch iTunes and click on the iPad tab. Then go to Applications and delete every Game Center game and Social networking. Then do a hard reset by holding down Power/Lock and Home. Then Go to settings -> Safari then turn on limit ad tracking. Then clear cookies, history, data and turn on Private Browsing. That's what helped me for this on my iPod Touch 4th Gen and iPad 3rd Gen.

Hope this helps!
iTechHelper
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Has anybody else tried this? Can you reinstall facebook, games, etc. afterwards without the problem reappearing?
 
it isn't the ipad

iTechHelper said:
So here's what to do! Plug your iPad into your computer, Launch iTunes and click on the iPad tab. Then go to Applications and delete every Game Center game and Social networking. Then do a hard reset by holding down Power/Lock and Home. Then Go to settings -> Safari then turn on limit ad tracking. Then clear cookies, history, data and turn on Private Browsing. That's what helped me for this on my iPod Touch 4th Gen and iPad 3rd Gen.
iTechHelper
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it really doesn't hurt to clean up your iphone/ipad, but it probably didn't fix the problem, either.

i just got hijacked by the same problem, and it seems quite repeatable, where my 2 idevices (iphone 3gs and ipad mini) got hjacked when trying to open a small business web site, and my 2 desktops (g4 and intel imac) didn't.

but switching safari on the g4 to pretend to be an iphone (under "user agent") got me to the x-rated sites. and also to a carefully crafted site that *looks* like the app store, but certainly isn't. it looks like they vary the destination, among a group of related pages. so far, every time i tried it from an idevice i was hijacked, although it's possible that the behaviour is randomized, and it may or may not target other smartphone platforms, since the same x-rated app is available at least for android. i didn't have the means to test it.

watching the screen more carefully, i could see the handoff to the mobile server (it helps to be using an ancient powerpc mac), and the redirect to the nasty site.

as best i can tell, the "problem" is on the server hosting the intended url, and you should take it up with them. (i tried berlin.de and cumhuriyet.com.tr but was not hijacked, possibly because the op was a few months ago.)
 
A solution... (involves htaccess files)

I had this occur with every domain hosted by Dreamhost that I accessed via Safari for mobile. Don't know how extensive the takeover truly was, but the solution seemed to lie in rewrite rules in the htaccess file of the affected site. When I dug deeper, there were tons of rewrites that were randomly placed in my htaccess files, across all domains.

The solution is to either clean up your htaccess file yourself, or have the support team for your hosting company take care of it for you.
 
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