Ehow hijacked....just ran across a virus.

[Nomad]

I was browsing and came across an ehow article, clicked on it, and was taken to the site.

Suddenly I redirected to a blank page, with web address servebee.com.

Fortunately, I was using ie10 Metro on Windows 8...so I just got a Metro message box saying "you must fix pc to prevent breakage, click ok to fix". I could see a fake antvirus application doing a fake scan on the page. However, since I was on Windows 8 ie10 metro, I just closed everything. No infection.

I revisited the site again, with several browsers, but was just at the regular ehow site. No redirection or anything.

Is this possible? How does this work? Obviously the page was hijacked, but why only temporarily? Is this typical? I thought once a site was hacked, it stayed hacked until fixed. My antivirus never picked up on it either, but not sure if it would anyway using metro apps. (I'm using lavasoft ad-aware).

Thanks, just curious!

 

[DrBeenGolfing]

I guess you've done some second opinion scans?
I ran across a poisned link in a review on CNET a couple of days ago - redirect to a fake flash player.

 

[Nomad]

Yeah, I'm certain I'm not infected. What's surprising is that ehow is a legitimate site, and so was the link (direct from google), but I guess it was temporarily redirecting to ransomware.