It's weird. The site will take ages to transform to another page. Sometimes it'll 503, and sometimes it'll be instant. Half the the times the CDN decides to work or not, or I log out without reason. It's been like this the past few days.

Any chance this issue might be related to the hamsters serving malicious content? I'm just saying because that other issue with Avast popping up on here persists, too. Maybe the server is doing more than just serving the forums and putting in one or the other malicious URL at occasions. Maybe it's indeed serving a lot of other stuff (without your knowledge even). Pirate stuff or malware, or spam mails, or who knows what.

Michael: I realize that backing up the topics database, re-imaging the complete server, and restoring the topics database thereafter is a kind of no-fun task, and you guys probably have more appealing things to do.

But that malware thing has been going on for how long, almost three weeks? It looks like it most definitively is not a false positive either (nor am I the only one getting the alerts).
Personally, I'm not very much bothered since obviously my web scanner caught it, and in the mean time I have scripting completely disabled on the site just to be 150% sure. Insofar, I actually couldn't be bothered, apart from being unable to use the topic editors and vote buttons, and having to type BB code by hand.

But there's without doubt people who are downloading that content and don't even realize. Any chance of tending that issue, maybe that weekend?

I'm working on it.. hopefully the malware issue is gone for good.

I'm working on it.. hopefully the malware issue is gone for good.

It looks like you beat the hamsters into submission! Good job! I haven't had any issues for the past two days.

Yup, no malware alerts since a week, no "experiencing problems with site, try again in a few minutes" thing, and no waiting 2 mins for site to load since then. Well done :)