PetaPixel Website Hijacked?

[Mike Farley]

I have been browsing the PetaPixel website and a couple of times the page I looking at changed to what was purportedly a survey for my ISP. Apparently simply by answering I am a guaranteed winner of a valuable prize. I might be a bit more convinced if the URL displayed was actually from my ISP. OK, I probably wouldn't. It is not happening on other websites, so I suspect that someone is manipulating the Petapixel site. Just a warning for anyone who might be tempted by this or similar scams.

[Peter Boughton]

The best way to avoid this would be to install uBlock Origin - and specifically "uBlock Origin" (not anything similarly named), and only by following the installation links listed at https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/#installation (not by searching).

uBlock Origin will automatically block malware and scam servers (using a variety of regularly updated sources), and doesn't need any special configuration to work (but does allow plenty of tweaking).

It also allows disabling JavaScript on a per-site basis - JavaScript is the primary technology used for website hijacks and is sometimes useful but not always needed - so it can be turned off just for PetaPixel without affecting other sites.


(Installing uBlock Origin is always the first thing I do for any browser, and is highly recommended irrespective of this issue or anything else.)