[USML Announce] Fwd: From Contact Us: Malware messages

[Mark Blocker]

League:  Here is the very-quick response I received from Onroto's CEO about
the issue Mark Kerber raised. Please let me know if you have seen any
further occurrences of these messages.

Mark B.


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From: OnRoto Support <support at onroto.com>
Date: Tue, May 26, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Subject: Re: From Contact Us: Malware messages
To: <blockermark at gmail.com>


We believe we got this ad out of our rotation today.

Thanks,
Niv

On Tue, May 26, 2026 at 4:57 PM Customer: blockermark at gmail.com <
Support at onroto.com> wrote:

> Onroto Team: Several owners in our league have contacted me about malware
> advertisements that appear on our league website. Has this issue been
> addressed? Let me know what I can tell our league members. A description of
> the issue is set forth below. Mark Blocker Description of issue: Wondering
> if the rest of you have seen an annoying uptick in a malicious pop-up on
> the onroto site. It's a redirect to a fake McAfee warning message,
> including the usual dire warning about malware (and of course directions to
> click on something to subscribe to McAfee). As I understand it, there are
> also versions mocked up for other security software (e.g., Norton). It's
> absolutely clear to me that it's coming from onroto. I assume you're all
> savvy enough not to click. However, it's getting really annoying. I've
> tweaked up everything I can think of--pop-up blocker, security settings,
> etc., but that doesn't seem to be enough to ward it off. This morning, I
> had to close onroto three times in the course of about five minutes. From
> what I understand, the problem is that onroto sells advertising to some
> sketchy advertisers. Their ads implement the redirects regardless of
> whether you click on them.
> League Abbrev: USML
> User: mblocker
> Sport: baseball
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