I was browsing through an article (the article about Sri Lanka, not that it matters) and I clicked on a word highlighted in blue. Instead of being sent to another article, a different Web page (possibly belonging to a racist website) appeared. I closed the page before I could read the URL and I deleted the browsing history, but I remember seeing JEWS written on the page, some sort of text below that, and a racist stereotype of a Jewish man (resembling a cartoon pirate) at the top left. I ran scans with Kaspersky Small Office Security (a free trial), Norton Power Eraser, and TDSSKiller, all of which found no threats. I investigated a lot of the links on the Sri Lanka Wikipedia article, clicking on different links, but I wasn't redirected anywhere.
So, if the redirect did not happen because of malware on my computer, how did this happen? Can anyone identify the website that I seem to be describing? This is REALLY weird and has never happened before or since.
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I doubt it's the redirect virus; all scans come back clean.
TDSSKiller is meant to detect the redirect virus, but it said no threats were found.
For the millisecond that I was on it, the site didn't seem to download anything to my computer. In addition to all the anti-virus measures that I have in place, I also have NoScript and Adblock on Firefox, so those should have helped me stop any dangerous content from attacking my computer (?).
Also, can anyone identify the website that I described? This is extremely worrying.
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