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Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: C-Town
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Board down - virus anybody?
Looks like I have a worm on my computer and it seemed to happened when the board went down. Anybody else experience any problems or was it just coincidence?
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04-01-2010, 08:11 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Mass.
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No viruses for me, but yes the board has been up and down all morning.
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04-01-2010, 08:28 AM
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College Benchwarmer
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: San Diego
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Actually just had a trojan horse downloaded and quarantined by my virus protection while surfing the board. So, yeah, something is up.
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04-01-2010, 08:37 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Mass.
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Those usually come from the advertisements, if someone inserts an illegal iframe into those banners it can do that. Usually using noscript with firefox or some kind of ad banner will often protect you from that occurring. It happens on many internet sites that use banners for advertisements unfortunately. |
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04-01-2010, 08:49 AM
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General Manager
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: The Mountains
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Ya - I had one of those fake security pop-ups hijack my computer at work yesterday. I actually got it three times, all three times while looking at this board.
It's a pretty nasty bug - it commandeers IE, and tries to shut down your malware programs. I don't know if anything can be done. But I definitely have to stay off the board at work for now. |
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04-01-2010, 08:55 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Mass.
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This usually can help keep you protected: Quote:
Obviously noscript or some other type of protection that blocks iframes usually takes care of 99% of these though. Adblockers are not designed necessarily as security protection so are more hit or miss. You should practice safe browsing everywhere on the web these days, mainstream sites are infected like this all of the time, so not using protection puts your computer at risk. |
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04-01-2010, 08:57 AM
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Pro Starter
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Toledo - Spain
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Nothing weird for me either on Firefox or Chrome, and i was in the forum when it went down.
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04-01-2010, 08:58 AM
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General Manager
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: The Mountains
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Ya, I have zero problems at home when using Chrome - but I'm not allowed to install any programs at work, so I'm stuck with IE there (and their obviously crappy security setup at work)
Stupid IT department. Last edited by molson : 04-01-2010 at 08:59 AM. |
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04-01-2010, 09:08 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Pintendre, Qc, Canada
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portable FireFox FTW! runs off a USB key, nothing whatsoever to install. FM
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04-01-2010, 10:48 AM
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General Manager
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Kansas City, MO
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I'm getting lots of PDF download requests from the board. Looks like some worms are being pumped through the advertisements.
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04-01-2010, 12:03 PM
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Hall Of Famer
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Back in Houston!
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That and April 1st is a notorious day for time delay virii. You might have caught it 6 months ago but it's just doing something today.
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04-01-2010, 12:05 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: San Diego via Sausalito via San Jose via San Diego
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What are these viruses you people speak of?
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04-01-2010, 06:29 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: New Jersey
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I also wonder if viruses are out there that are causing issues with boards today. 3 of my favorite boards have been up and down today. 1 of them is almost never down. In fact, this is the first time I've seen it down for more than a minute or two in a few years. |
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04-01-2010, 09:16 PM
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College Starter
Join Date: Oct 2002
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I got a nasty malware virus from FOFC today. Was pretty pissed about it.
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