Virus?

Deep Blue · Post by **Deep Blue** » Thu Apr 14, 2011 10:05 am

Why I detected virus many times in this site today? Every pages have virus!

Post by **Spaz** » Thu Apr 14, 2011 10:34 am

I experienced a similar phenomenon yesterday.

Post by **Spaz** » Thu Apr 14, 2011 11:09 am

It brought up one of those faux pages where it makes you think a virus scan is running.

Stephaniebot · Post by **Stephaniebot** » Thu Apr 14, 2011 11:48 am

Spaz wrote:It brought up one of those faux pages where it makes you think a virus scan is running.

Thats what I got yesterday too, just shut the page down when it appeared

KOS-MOS · Post by **KOS-MOS** » Thu Apr 14, 2011 2:40 pm

For those who have experienced this issue, please provide the following details:

Your operating system + its version.
Your web browser + its version.
Your anti-virus software + its version.
Any warning or error messages given by your browser, operating system, or anti-virus software.
If possible, please also include page URLs this occurred on + screen captures.

Thank you for your help in addressing this issue. There will be a period of downtime within the next few weeks to provide updates to the site, and I will have Robotman give a formal announcement about the details as soon as possible.

Post by **Spaz** » Thu Apr 14, 2011 4:52 pm

OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
Browser: Google Chrome 12.0.733dev and IE9
Internet Security: Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 11.0.2.556
There were no warnings from either system.

It happened on the main page when I click on either the Stories or Images section. I'm afraid I did not have time to take a screencapture.

Lithorien · Post by **Lithorien** » Thu Apr 14, 2011 5:18 pm

KOS-MOS wrote:For those who have experienced this issue, please provide the following details:
Your operating system + its version.

Your web browser + its version.

Your anti-virus software + its version.

Any warning or error messages given by your browser, operating system, or anti-virus software.

If possible, please also include page URLs this occurred on + screen captures.
Thank you for your help in addressing this issue. There will be a period of downtime within the next few weeks to provide updates to the site, and I will have Robotman give a formal announcement about the details as soon as possible.

Windows 7 Home Premium
Microsoft Internet Explorer 9
Microsoft Security Essentials
No error messages or warnings, just a straight browser hijack. The hit came as soon as fembotcentral.com loaded.

wjbaines · Post by **wjbaines** » Thu Apr 14, 2011 7:48 pm

Man, viruses suck.

Actually, I noted that my browser (the execrable Explorer) redirected me to obviously bogus scam-bullshit two days ago or thereabouts and let my computer do a system-restore while I was at work. So far no recurrances.

Had no inkling that our home here was the source, though. That's kinda disturbing.

Yet -- and it's a grave situation and the administrators have my full, absolute, unequivocal respect and indeed admiration when it comes to their response (and everything else, actually, for that matter) -- a teensy bit ironic?

KOS-MOS · Post by **KOS-MOS** » Thu Apr 14, 2011 11:05 pm

UPDATE:
I have identified a string of malicious code within our PHP files which I can confirm is targeting those browsing this site with Internet Explorer. I am working to identify its origins so I may properly remove it. Until then, I strongly advise using Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox.

tectile · Post by **tectile** » Sat Apr 16, 2011 8:04 am

Win XP sp 3

Avast anti virus home edition 5.1.889

Spybot S/D latest version

Firefox 3.6.16

I've visited the site every day in the past week and haven't seen any problems.