Aboristesite problems

[aczlan]

I can get on and navigate with your link but only here. Is this the only place you can maneuver through as well? Cannot go anywhere else w/o that adware taking over.

Looks like their main forum page has been taken over, but not the individual pages, if you use the dropdown "quick navigation" on the bottom right you can change forums.

Aaron Z

 

[94BULLITT]

I was doing some Googling and AS kept popping up the search but everytime I clicked on the link it would not work. The link Newbury posted worked though.

 

[Scooby074]

I have no issues browsing the site right now. That's going through the first google result, not my bookmark.

Im using both adblockplus and NoScript.

Since the site has been under attack, Im not going to try with those disabled to test. I suggest that anybody having issues should "upgrade" to firefox with ABP and NS. Not just for AS but browsing in general, ads suck

 

[deezler]

Last time I went to arboristsite, it had a message something like: "this site has been hacked. the administrators need to step up their security!" and there was no content. blarg.

 

[turnkey4099]

A new hacker setting. Now you can bring up the home page but that is all, any other choice results in a blank page.

Harry K

 

[timster2]

That site has been the subject of some persistent hacking lately. Seems that someone has injected malicious java script into several areas that keeps replicating itself somehow or is being reloaded by someone. One way to fix the problem is to run "no script" and disable scripting on the home page, has worked for me for the last week or so. It also stops a lot of other sites from loading adds and you can stop Google from tracking your every move. AdBlock plus is another tool that stops the annoying adds from loading and makes pages run a lot faster not having to load all those adds.

 

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That site has been the subject of some persistent hacking lately. Seems that someone has injected malicious java script into several areas that keeps replicating itself somehow or is being reloaded by someone. One way to fix the problem is to run "no script" and disable scripting on the home page, has worked for me for the last week or so. It also stops a lot of other sites from loading adds and you can stop Google from tracking your every move. AdBlock plus is another tool that stops the annoying adds from loading and makes pages run a lot faster not having to load all those adds.

I am by no means computer literate (well maybe on a third grade reading level) but I think things may be different on a Mac. Mac simply will not allow a site to run if it picks up maliciousness or it will give me a warning of the dangers of proceeding to a particular troubled site. Would you know how to do this "no script" thing on a Mac because I certainly do not. I seem or was told I have an "Ad blocker" built in to this computer from Mac yet that ad that runs over Arboriste site is free to frolic about as long as it wants on my set. Anybody can tell me anything about a computer and I just say "uh huh" with a dumb ***** grin on my face that matches my brain. Today I cannot even get on with Newbury's link that worked a couple of days ago. Just comes to a blank page.

 

[timster2]

Sorry I am an old PC guy never played with Macs and even my PC experience is slowly aging since I retired.

 

[aczlan]

I am by no means computer literate (well maybe on a third grade reading level) but I think things may be different on a Mac. Mac simply will not allow a site to run if it picks up maliciousness or it will give me a warning of the dangers of proceeding to a particular troubled site. Would you know how to do this "no script" thing on a Mac because I certainly do not. I seem or was told I have an "Ad blocker" built in to this computer from Mac yet that ad that runs over Arboriste site is free to frolic about as long as it wants on my set. Anybody can tell me anything about a computer and I just say "uh huh" with a dumb ***** grin on my face that matches my brain. Today I cannot even get on with Newbury's link that worked a couple of days ago. Just comes to a blank page.

Assuming that you are using the default browser (Safari), there is an add-on available for Adblock plus: https://getadblock.com/
To get NoScript, you would need to switch to Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/install-firefox-mac

Aaron Z