Website shows www.weblogsinc.com (and that's it)

[agreenbhm]

I read a post maybe a month or so ago from someone who said every time he went to Facebook all it said on the page was "www.weblogsinc.com". I can't seem to find his post to find if it was ever resolved or not, but I too have had the same issue today (with Twitter), and have found a solution. The fix seems to be to clear the Firefox cache. The instructions are listed here:

http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/forum/1/4...clear%20history

[dose]

I read a post maybe a month or so ago from someone who said every time he went to Facebook all it said on the page was "www.weblogsinc.com". I can't seem to find his post to find if it was ever resolved or not, but I too have had the same issue today (with Twitter), and have found a solution. The fix seems to be to clear the Firefox cache. The instructions are listed here:

http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/forum/1/4...clear%20history

I'm actually getting this right now. I found this post from Google. It happened the other night when I was trying to view wow.com. Now it's happening to facebook.com for me.

I am using Chrome right now. I have tested this in both IE, FF and Chrome all with the same blank page with www.weblogsinc.com on it. I have cleared all of the history for each of the browsers, but that didn't seem to fix it. I am going to run a virus scan now too..

UPDATE: I tested www.facebook.com on my laptop right next to my affected machine, worked fine. nslookup on both machines produced the same results. Is there something else I need to clear out on this machine? When I attempt to goto facebook.com it immediately posts that page like it was still cached somewhere. I know it's a small page with 1 line of text but it's like its not even attempting to look elsewhere first...

Edited December 1, 2009 by dose

[colealtdelete]

Sounds like malware. Do a scan with Malware Bytes. It's redirecting your websites to another site.

[dose]

Sounds like malware. Do a scan with Malware Bytes. It's redirecting your websites to another site.

I did a full malware scan with Malware Bytes with no hits. Scanned with NOD32 with no hits.

Ah, it turned out to be Adblock actually. In my Adblock prefs there was a line for an exception for Facebook. I removed this manually and everything worked.

I still don't understand how this would block other browsers from seeing the site as well though. Because now IE/Chrome are fine...

[_neutrino Veteran]

i have had an issue like this before however not exactly the same where if you attempted to go to google it would redirect you elsewhere it ended up being malware that did it.

[M_Lyons10]

This is very strange. It does sound like malware (We had sites redirecting at work a while back because of malware, but not just displaying a different domain...). Very odd.

[dose]

Yes it did closely resemble a malware issue but in my case I don't believe being redirected, I was simply cutting off most the page from displaying on my end through the Adblock Addon for FF.

The weblogsinc reference comes from the company Web Log's Inc hosting the pages I was having issues with. This happened to me on www.wow.com (a Web Log Inc hosted site) and a Facebook application that was being also hosted by Web Logs Inc. I remember visiting a Facebook application page that had a few adds on it I manually removed through right clicking on the object and using the Adblock menu option. I think I may have been a little to restrictive on my block?

This made a line in my Adblock prefs (I just deleted it I should have taken a screenshot first :( ) that ended up cutting off the entire page except for Web Log Inc's tiny html "branding". After looking up the company and it's associations with the other pages I don't believe there was any malware involved here, just user error.

That's my theory so far..any thoughts?