Try to get the current situations fixed correctly, including getting a https website update for better security.

I have been at this for 30 plus years, and this site has something that most don't ... a FORUM. The other sites have resolved their time to do "podcasts" and so many of them are ridiculous and just an ego driven bunch of garbage, and does not meet any kind of "progressive" definition whatsoever.

There are a lot of great folks here, and I do NOT have their personal email to ensure that we can continue communicating, but if this continues, it will start killing off folks that like to post here and enjoy the community at large.

This site, has the best, and most informative of materials and (above all!!!!!!) THE HISTORY of so much of its work, and I do not wish to see it wasted. It's similar to my dad's library of Portuguese, Brazilian and Spanish Literature, over 30K books, many of them not INDEXED anywhere (as of 1980's) and in the end ... it's all wasted, and no one cares in Lisbon (most of it was taken there and supposedly a memorial added with the library ... no doubt throwing away anything that wasn't "Portuguese".

In the end, the sad thing is ... the history of the creativity and the work ... and somehow, it is difficult to not see it getting lost and above all ... forgotten, because you and I know the Internet has a very small "time" element for anything, not to mention songs!

Please ... M@X ... we need this fixed correctly and the browsers stop talking about misdirects ... and if M@X is short of funds to do this right, let us know ... I can cough up a few dollars, but I cannot use PayPal, which for me has not been secure at all.

BTW ... the reply function is busted still ... 

It's pretty clear M@X has turned his back on maintaining this website.

The misdirects and retries are likely tied to a cross-site scripting hack that occurred back in July/Aug, and that I've posted extensively on in other PA threads.

Here's a band aid fix that worked for me:

1) Install NoScript, a free extension/add-on for your browser. (I use it in Firefox).

2) Open NoScript and add the websites: "https://new2sportnews.com", and "https://advertising-cdn.com".

3) Mark them both as "Untrusted".

This will disable any attempts to access those sites or run scripts there.  You should see all the intrusion attempts, redirects, and retries disappear, while keeping PA accessible and usable in the usual fashion.

Hi,

It's working right now as you can see. However, what it was doing quite a few times was superimposing all kinds of characters and the area meant for a reply blocked/closed off.

Sadly, I'm not a code knowledgeable person enough to specify more ... and hopefully this helps. 

https://letsencrypt.org/about/

Posting this from Google Chrome, please report here if more related issues occurs.

I will watch this thread for a while.

Tx

Hi,

Thanks so much ... and now, in Chrome, it even specifies "Secure", which should help along the way.

You are appreciated ... so you know ... and hopefully we can continue, and get better!

A bit soon, but Happy Holidays!

Yay M@X!! Thank you!

While we've got your attention, please look into why many pages on PA are executing a Java script at https://new2sportnews.com. The script is highly obfuscated, and appears to invoke another script on https://advertising-cdn.com, which is down now, but when it was active, it attempted an intrusion on my PC. A cross-site scripting hack?

M@X wrote: I think I managed to remove the unwanted script from new2sportnews.com , let me know

Hi Max, it looks like you've got the ones on the "Forums" and "FAQS" pages, but the "Prog Rock Guide" page still has over 20 of those script references -- at the end of each sub-genre description. That's all I've found so far (by searching the page source code for "sport").

Hopefully you can fix it so that future infections can't occur.

Thank you, sincerely, for resolving this issue!

Mark

However I don't find the ones on the forums (FAQ,...) ? can you spot them for me if you can ? Please

Whatever you removed earlier seems to have cleaned up the Forums and FAQS pages. I no longer see them there.

Just to be sure, I went to the internet Way Back Machine, and they had recorded the Forum page yesterday. That page still had the script, where "dropDownCalendar" is invoked...

"<div id="dropDownCalendar" class="dropDownCalendar"><span id="showCalendar"></span></div><div align="center" style="margin:5px;"><br/><script src="https://web.archive.org/web/20221111112133js_/https://new2sportnews.com/progarchives.js"></script></div>

<div align="center" style="margin:5px auto;text-align:center" id="topad">
<!-- ads here -->
</div>"

It appears to be gone now.

The infection on the FAQ page was two places. One was identical to the Forum page (i.e. associated with the dropDownCalendar), and the other place was farther down...

<span style="font-size:10px"><br/><br/>Edited by Andy Webb - April 08 2015 at 00:02</span>
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