Unale to Get On Talkofthevillages
 

Anyone else have trouble getting on TV? Whenever I tried from Saturday to last night (Tuesday), the screen would go to ww2.talkofthevillages.com and remain a blank screen or go to discover.com.

Thank goodness it cleared up but just curious if anyone else had that problem? Thanks.

Lots of us. It seemed to be a phisher/spoofer on Prism CenturyLink. They might have gone after other Internet Service Providers as well. https://spoofer.caida.org/

It's happening now to me also. Anyone know how to get rid of it.

I downloaded Microsoft Security Essentials.......Ran it.

I also downloaded Malwarebytes Anti-Malware............Ran it.

This took care of it for me.

It could take four to six hours to run.

I have been having this problem for 2 weeks and can't get rid of it. I have tried clearning cookies/caches, deleting browsing history, deleting the link to talkofthevillages and running a security scan. Nothing works. I keep getting diverted to ww2.talkofthevillages which takes me to "goodmayor". I called our internet provider and they told me it must be coming from an advertisement on talkofthevillages. He spent an hour on the phone with me trying to help. Our provider is At&T Uverse...so it is not just Century Link and Comcast that are having this problem.

Many people have been experiencing the same problem. Seem the best answer is to contact the staff at TOTV. They can be reached at the bottom of the TOTV main page. Seem's like the guru there will be the person to fix you up. Take Care and good luck.

Same here on both laptops. It installed a malware and infected my computers. I got the paid version of Malware bytes and now I have protection from incoming threats. I also ran the free copy on Superantispyware to do the cleanup.

There are people complaining on Facebook that they too are blocked from TOTV.


I had this problem twice about a month ago and each time lasted several days but went away for no rhyme or reason....but I did restore my computer to an earlier time.


I think something not good is going on by some hacker.

Please allow me to reply to this hack-virus-issue by shouting:

TOTV AND/OR CENTURYLINK OWES ALL THE AFFECTED USERS A DETAILED EXPLANATION AS TO WHAT HAPPENED, WHY (IF KNOWN), AND WHAT TO DO IF THIS RE-OCCURS.

Apparently a large ToTV user base was directly affected, some impacting their PCs with costs to clean or check their equipment. Rather than no communications, it would be professional for either or both suppliers to alert their customer base and clear the air.

I think the answer to what to do is get a quality virus protection software and keep it updated and run full scans weekly. I found that when I do get a virus, running Trend Micro (my anti-virus) cleans the virus and the problem goes away. I'm not sure that TOTV and I's certain the the cable providers do the best they can to screen but the ultimate responsibility for our stuff is us.

Anti-Virus Protection
 

I have anti-virus protection and I think most of us do. Still had the problem.

I totally agree. The problem was fixed by Centurylink and/or TOV. I sure would like to know what happened. I spent a fair amount of time trying to fix a problem that they fixed. I sure would like to know what happened so I know what to look for if there is a "next time"

From other threads, it appears it is not just CenturyLink subscribers that are/were infected.

I have a Mac and two days ago an Apple chat person helped me "fix" it. Lasted one day. Then I called Apple Help and I needed an "update" to entire laptop-- took couple of hours. But each time it was when I went to Talk of Villages. Not only was I denied access-- I got warnings a third party was on my Mac and one time it froze. I had to get on by using Google Chrome. I agree-- if this is something on Talk of the Villages-- they should fix it-- and let us know it was fixed. After reading all this, I won't be visiting so often.

Just relating that the anti-virus software I used fixed it

it wasn't a virus, they didn't pay their domain host, when they did the site came back, but it has been fun reading this nonsense.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phishing

It was phishing by manipulating links.

sorry, no it was not. ask the admin.

Where are you getting this information??

i might ask where you came up with this being a phishing scheme. 25 years as an iT consultant is where I get it. I did nothing to my machine and poof the site returned. I guess you have no experience with domains and hosting of sites but when the fee goes unpaid your site disappears and you get random sites that the host rents domains to. this discussion would end if the admin piped in.

must be an internet provider issue. I haven't had any problems.

site has been up two days since.

it was interesting how i was redirected to goodmayor, which is/was a virus and interesting how my scans found a redirect virus and how it was fixed the same day the redirect first showed up and how some users had redirect issues for days and like cquick, some users never has an issue...........maybe it was the speed of cquick that was able to get around a domain issue.

hmmmmmm

I am not at all technically inclined, but I have a 2012 Macbook Pro still running the original operating system (saying it will no longer support google chrome which I prefer to Safari), and I have MacKeeper virus protection. Our service provider is Comcast. So far, I have had no issues with TOTV.

I had a service tech from Century Link here for a couple hours today.(Tuesday)He was on the phone most of the time trying to figure out the problem. .It definitely is a problem with their Internet being spoofed, phished, or hacked. When he was leaving her felt confident that they would figure it out and apparently they have.

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Seems like a hacker is targeting our demographic because this is the only site they see to have had this problem. Although I'm not sure but I heard other ISP'S have had this same problem recently. Please if this happens to you in the future don't panic and start paying for virus removal because although it feels like you have a virus and the messages you are receiving make you think you have a virus YOU DON'T. The problem is with your Internet provider. Just call them and let them know the problems you are having.This will save you aggravation & money

Unable to get Classified's now
 

I thought the problem was solved, but was wrong. I can now get on to TOTV's threads, but when I try to get "Classifieds", I do not get any classified ads and get a message that says that it can't find the "server" at ww2.talkofthevillages", so something is still going on.

That doesn't explain why many of us have experienced no interruption. If the host shut it down for non-payment, no one could get on.

Be careful..............you are using logic on ToTV.

there has been no interruption for 2 days now. the only one who can tell you definitively is the host and he has been silent.

it was a virus? the SITE was a virus? not when I saw it. deceptive site does not mean it is a virus, it just means it has a suspect security signature and could, repeat, could have malware. i only was redirected for a day and did nothing to fix it.

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Yes.

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