Possible situation with World Guitars website

drippycat

I sometimes log on to the World Guitars website to leer at the gear. But over the past couple of days the content doesn't load and I get a pop up saying

'AdGuard has detected an attempt by this website to use your browser as a crypto-currency miner. It can create significant CPU load. Press "Cancel" to prevent it.'

So I press cancel, the I get the message

www.worldguitars.co.uk says:
'We are collecting all the information about the websites engaged in hidden crypto-mining. Press "OK" to send an automatic report about this website.'

at which point I press cancel instead of 'OK' because I don't know if it helps or harms World Guitars, which I don't want to do. I don't know what to make of this. I know that the company is held in high regard by people here who's opinion I hold in high regard & that's good enough for me. Possible explanations I though of was that someone may have hacked their site in some way or there's a problem on my system. But then again, this is the only website where I get the message & it happens consistently. If there is anyone here who has direct access to the people at the company, could you alert them to this because if there's a problem at their end it would be nice if they knew about it.

Besides; I want to leer at the gear, surf with the Suhrs, luxuriate in the Luxxtones, go on a bender over a Fender, lose my jelly over a tele, sell my best hat to buy a strat, retch over a Gretsch. And so on, apart from the retching bit - I was running out of rhymes.

Ravenous

Looks like one of these bitcoin mining things.

I'd stay off their site until they get it sorted.  (I doubt they are doing this deliberately, but who knows what their service provider is up to. Or of course it could have been hacked as you say.)

Kebabkid

Let them know

Whitecat

Email them. It will be a third-party root-level script injection - probably beyond their control (but they can hopefully shut the door on it). 

Ravenous

Whitecat said:

Email them. It will be a third-party root-level script injection - probably beyond their control (but they can hopefully shut the door on it). 

+wis. Yes it looked like some sort of script. "JS/miner". I gather these things are all the range these days...

drippycat

Thanks for the replies. Er, does anyone have their email? I can't get on the website to find it...

Whitecat

info@worldguitars.co.uk

drippycat

Whitecat said:

info@worldguitars.co.uk

Thanks for that. I'll drop them a line.

normula1

Could have been worse The mobile version of a hotel website I was taking the wife too started redirecting to a porn site which was a touch unexpected when the wife was trying to have a shufty at their restaurant menu before we went

Sassafras

Works fine for me.

drippycat

I sent a message, got a reply and it's working fine for me too.

Whitecat

It may vary for people depending on where they get to the website from - links from google or other sites, for example, can result in script injections where maybe just entering the URL into your address bar will not. It depends.

skunkwerx

normula1 said:

Could have been worse The mobile version of a hotel website I was taking the wife too started redirecting to a porn site which was a touch unexpected when the wife was trying to have a shufty at their restaurant menu before we went

Whats the website dude? 

RandallFlagg

The World Guitars site is playing up for me too, it's full of really expensive guitars with gratuitous money shot pictures

bingefeller

Works well for me, @drippycat .  What operating system and browser are you using?  Do you have any ad blockers installed or any script blockers?

Strat54

Works fine on Chrome for me and has done all this week, if you are the only one experiencing this then I would suggest having you device checked out. 

drippycat

bingefeller said:

Works well for me, @drippycat .  What operating system and browser are you using?  Do you have any ad blockers installed or any script blockers?

Thanks for the concern. I emailed them about it & they thanked me & said their web people were working on it. It was resolved shortly afterwards.