This bug is very recent and seemed to appear out of nowhere. The console displays the following error:

VM737:1 GET .js

It also seems to sprout in every Wordpress admin page.

I have tried to search the entire wordpress code base for the amazonaws, forton, etc. but could not find what is sending this request to the .js

I searched the internet for the error but only found a korean site with little information.

Any idea what might be causing this error?

This bug is very recent and seemed to appear out of nowhere. The console displays the following error:

VM737:1 GET http://s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws./forton/http_headers_1.js

It also seems to sprout in every Wordpress admin page.

I have tried to search the entire wordpress code base for the amazonaws, forton, etc. but could not find what is sending this request to the .js

I searched the internet for the error but only found a korean site with little information.

Any idea what might be causing this error?

• javascript
• wordpress
• amazon-web-services

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It's Malware effect. Try to check the extentions installed in your browser. Ex. "HTTP Headers" had bee malware recently.

Yes I also removed the chrome HTTP Headers extention and it went away. thank you

I experienced the same issue. The sponsored by popup occurred twice this morning, once on a Wordpress site (on my imac) and once on a basic HTML site (on my macbook pro). In both instances I was using the Chrome browser and both puters had the HTTP Headers extension installed.

I right-clicked on the popup and selected "Inspect element" which showed the javascript file for the popup: http://s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws./forton/http_headers_1.js

That confirmed it was ing from the HTTP Headers extension, so I disabled it by going to Chrome/Preferences. That resolved the issue.