Amazon hacked?

Very_Poor

Hi I was looking for permanent markers on Amazon, and suddenly this pop up advertising duck tape appeared. I clicked the x option to get rid of it, but when I ran the immunisation function on the spybot search and destroy program, it says I'm not the administrator. I can not find any other users on this computer. It was definitely an amazon URL (https://www.amazon.co.uk), found through searching what I wanted to buy on google. Now I'm concerned my computer and account has been hacked.

Occasionally when I want to purchase mp3 downloads from Amazon, a message pops up saying data is available to third parties. I have reported this a while ago, amazon just said they were not hacked. I haven't got this in a while and never brought anything when this message appeared. Anyone has similar experiences?

DCFC79

Seems fine to me,

Darksun

What browser are you using? Get some decent ad blocking software, such as Ad Block Pro for Firefox with the EasyList subscription.

The message about third parties just means some information is being transmitted without using SSL, so if it was intercepted it can be read in plain text. Doesn't necessarily mean anyone IS intercepting it, it's only a concern if it appears on a page where you're submitting personal/financial details. It's normal to see the message when moving from the secure part of the site to the non secure part (i.e. going back to the normal page after paying for something)

williham

or you've got some sort of adware that brings up ads, but it wouldn't be anything to do with amazon.

flexrider

you must of been caught by the article robot (a tool internet marketers use to show there products or services on well known sites) just update your pop up blocker and u be okay

Very_Poor

Hi I do use ad-aware and as I said spybot search and destroy. I also use the ad blocker on firefox. Darksun, people shouldn't be able to read sensitive data in the first place, that's the point. I got the pop up, which looked like a windows system message, when I would click on the buy button by the song. Just after I got the pop up on duck tape, I ran a scan using ad-aware and something was found and removed, but it still said I'm not the administrator when I try to immunise using spybot. AVG and spybot found nothing.

Flexrider I'll keep that in mind if it pops up again, although I shouldn't get any pop ups/have adware downloaded onto my computer using amazon.

Pound

Very_Poor wrote: »

Occasionally when I want to purchase mp3 downloads from Amazon, a message pops up saying data is available to third parties. I have reported this a while ago, amazon just said they were not hacked. I haven't got this in a while and never brought anything when this message appeared. Anyone has similar experiences?

A message warning that data could be read by third parties is quite normal. It means the website is switching from an encrypted connection to unencrypted. This usually happens when you've finished entering private information and you switch back to a standard connection.

Proc

Very_Poor wrote: »

Just after I got the pop up on duck tape

Either you mean "duct tape" or you have some strange fetish?

Darksun

Proc wrote: »

Either you mean "duct tape" or you have some strange fetish?

Actually, Duck Tape is a specific brand of tape, so it could well have been an advert for that

http://www.duckbrand.com/Products/duck-tapes.aspx

gaming_guy

Very_Poor wrote: »

Hi I was looking for permanent markers on Amazon, and suddenly this pop up advertising duck tape appeared. I clicked the x option to get rid of it, but when I ran the immunisation function on the spybot search and destroy program, it says I'm not the administrator. I can not find any other users on this computer. It was definitely an amazon URL (https://www.amazon.co.uk), found through searching what I wanted to buy on google. Now I'm concerned my computer and account has been hacked.

It's good security practice to run as a limited user while browsing the internet as if you do get hit by malware/viruses etc then it should do less damage to the machine compared to an admin account.