Getting comments about a virus

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  madmanknitting · Member · Jun 18, 2017 at 11:40 pm

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  Apparently, a few of the people that clink on the link from my facebook to an article I’ve written on wordpress are getting virus pop ups. Anything wrong?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  supernovia · Staff · Jun 19, 2017 at 4:45 pm

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  Hi, @madmanknitting are they getting an odd popup ad? We’ve been working on an issue along those lines and I’m guessing this is related. Also, is this for http://madmanknitting.wordpress.com/ ?

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  madmanknitting · Member · Jun 19, 2017 at 4:50 pm

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  Yes, they’re telling me when they view the page on their phones, they get a pop up telling them their devices will be shut down in a day if they don’t install something or other. Yes, it is for madmanknitting.wordpress.com

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  supernovia · Staff · Jun 19, 2017 at 5:25 pm

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  Okay, that sounds like the issue we’re troubleshooting here. I’ll be responding in this thread as soon as I have more information:

  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/pop-up-advertsspam-when-reading-through-facebook?replies=29

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  madmanknitting · Member · Jun 19, 2017 at 5:30 pm

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  Thanks for looking into it. I appreciate that.

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  supernovia · Staff · Jun 19, 2017 at 8:06 pm

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  You bet. I’ll close this thread and update in the other as soon as I’ve got more info. Hoping to have some very soon… cheers!