Technical Issues on DMag.com and FrontBurner

Hello, patient, kind, and understanding FrontBurnervians. Some of you may have noticed some pop-ups and odd behavior on our site. We apologize for that. Here’s an explanation of what’s going on from our extremely capable and hard-working Online Developer & Programmer Josh Pearson:

Since Friday we’ve been experiencing some virus issues with our main Web server that hosts the D Magazine and People Newspapers Web sites. It started off just serving pop-up ads that were not related to our sites in any way, but has since progressed into serving executables and trying to prompt downloads of malicious software. We have a temporary fix in place that cleans our server every few minutes, but you may still experience this issue for brief periods of time until we are able to eradicate the virus altogether.

We have had reports of people accessing FrontBurner and getting download prompts and malware warnings. We believe this is tied to accessing FrontBurner from the D Magazine site, since all of the blogs are hosted separately and are not vulnerable to this particular virus. If you access FrontBurner directly via bookmark or by referencing the http://frontburner.dmagazine.com URL, you should experience no issues. Thank you for your patience as we work to resolve this issue once and for all.

If you continue to have trouble or have other questions, Josh’s email address is joshp AT dmagazine.com. Please be kind to him, and apologies again for the trouble.