Were the forums down most of yesterday 9/25 or was it just me ? I couldnt get on most of the day.
I didn’t have any trouble yesterday, during the day. I left work at 3PM EST, and didn’t attempt to login until 10PM last night, at which time I was not able to get into the website. Also, it was not a login problem, the website never opened. Like Tojo, I figured it was a server down problem.
Yep me too. The site crashed for the entire day. Glad to see it up and running again.
Crashed all day for me as well. Also, the other Klambach forum about car modeling was down as well.
I had that problem too.
Morning everyone,
Thanks for letting us know. Are the forums working for everyone today?
Enash>
The forums still seem slow to log-in, but are functioning again today.
Gary
The forum has been painfully slow the past week and didn’t work at all yesterday afternoon and night. Today seems OK.
Yes and no.
First, I do not think the site was down yesterday. I could see site if I went to stealth mode in any browser (thus bypassing my login cookie/credentials). At 10:30 PM EST, the newest post was 8 hrs old, so that suggests the last time a registered used was able to login was yesterday AM EST.
The only reason I am here is because I viewed the site as a guest (stealth/privacy mode again) and saw recent posts. That prompted me try again. After about 15 seconds, I logged in. There is a thread about slow logins. It is really bad for some folks, not for others. For me, it is unbearable sometimes, just fine at others.
Greg
I tried multiple times to log in and nada. Then the page would not load at all and kept getting blank pages the rest of the day.
Still now it’s very slow loading.
Ditto what Greg says, and login is slow today. It’s kind of usual though.
Same here, Ernie. As I said, I don’t think anyone was able to login yesterday.
Now you have a new problem within FSM website. Apparently we’re seeing a long box at the bottom of the page asking what to do with tag from s.thebrighttag.com. It seems to pop up only on this site, Never in other sites I visit.
After a bit of searching, that is a malware. No matter what you do - either you click it out or choose cancel, it keeps popping up. PLEASE FIX!!! I believe FSM caught a malware. Perhaps the reason why folks couldn’t get on or log on yesterday.
Thursday 9/27 no problems yesterday or today,for me,no long box as described or long log on time issues.
Tojo, the box appears on my pc and sometimes it takes a while for it to show up. You x it and eventually comes back. I don’t see it on my phone or tablet. I called customer service to let them know.
Okay,just trying to give them feedback,letting them know whats going on,maybe my security is working for me,not sure.
I have the exact same problem regarding s.thebrighttag.com. It only happens on my PC and only from the forum of this web site. Yesterday I sent an e-mail to AAron regarding this. I did a 3 hour full scan of my PC and nothing showed up.
One more odd thing is happening. When I click the “X” to close this web site a box pops up that states, “Hey, your files are still downloading… you might lose them if you close your browser.” Now here is the real odd thing, I was on my doctor’s web site this morning and the same box popped up when I closed that web site.
It’s defenetively the web site and the browser. I took my pc to a repair place I deal with to check things out.
The computer tech fired up my pc and went on the site on another computer on Google Chrome and it never came up. Then he went on mine on Explorer and the box popped up. Then he went in his on Explorer and got the box too. He noticed the adds popping up on the side and installed a pop up blocker which got rid of the adds.
So I’m looking into this s.thebrighttag.com and have asked our tech team to investigate as well. I’ll let you know what we find out. It seems to be a redirect virus so be sure not to click on it but please report it when you see it. I’m not finding a trace of it on the FSM site, but if you think your computer may be infected with malware then I would clean it quickly.