My question in regards viruses would be why it would only affect one website? My home computer is acting normally for everything else except TB access.
My chrome redirecting now too.
I had the redirect problem on my laptop on Friday, but it worked just now, so it doesn't seem like an individual device problem.
Well, we know what it is now! It's weird!
How is it now for you?
Still getting the site loading forever until I manually stop the load (Chrome iOS 12 iPad). Safari is now redirect free.
Will kill all apps, and do a system reboot. See if Chrome gets back to normal.
Nope, Chrome still spins the "loading" icon until I stop it. Then page is good. Open a thread, icon spins (no redirection address) until stopped, then page loaded correctly.
Thanks for all of your work to correct this.
Ran CCleaner and am now able to get in. Has me thinking that a cookie was acting like a trigger.
Thanks for repairing the Trainboard website. I use the Google Chrome browser and Malwarebytes picked up the problem immediately. (This was on Friday, I think). I checked a few times over the weekend but kept getting the same problem. Checked this morning (in the UK) and back to normal, so now catching up on my usual topics, Z Scale, DCC & Electronics, and Layout Design Discussion.
I really appreciate that you have managed to get things going again, as you are volunteers, and have spent the weekend on this.
Bremner, thank you very much.
Thanks @bremner for fixing up the weirdness with the js redirects. I would suggest a backup be taken of the static files for the site so that can be used in the future for restoring service etc.
Also for those that wonder why it was working for some and not for others, some browsers will send an http request to check the staleness of the cached copies and if the server provides an expiration for the cache the browser should respect that. I can see some of the responses from the server include the "Expires" header and virtually all include a "Last-Modified" header. It is entirely up to the browser how it behaves with cached data and in most cases it would appear that the browser was not sending a request for updated data and instead used the local cache until we purged the cached data.
I cleared out all of my cookies, browsing data, etc. on MS Edge and all is well now. Thanks for the fix!
Chrome & Edge on Windows 10.
I posted this by cut & paste.
Before I checked Trainboard today, I had done a clean up on my computer, which uses Window 10 and Chrome. The clean up was not connected to the Trainboard problem but because the computer was running slowly.
I closed all Chrome windows and then I reopened one, and ran History Eraser. I then powered down (shut down) and powered up again. This was rather than doing a restart. Once I was running again, I scanned using Malwarebytes, before trying Trainboard again. It may be worth trying the power off, power on sequence to clear any cached memory.
Working for me. Thanks for your work!