trojan/malware warning (merged threads)

Wow! I thought you were going to tell me that there was a recall. They all leak.

 

your ad drivin site destroyed my computer

yup that's right

Trojans everywhere. and there's now a virus that norton can't find and I'm disabled from openening task manager msconfig cmd... oh and if I try to start my computer in safemode well before I get to the windows splash screen my computer reboots.. and it will do it continuosly.


so thanks to the people who run the site

ps I'm using my iPhone.

 

apparently your lack of virus protection did....

 

stop pointing fingers, man up and deal with your probs.

this site is just as safe as google virus wise.

 

Should I assume that if the Spyhunter scan did not find anything I am safe.

I currently use Trend Micro, I thought they had a pretty good rep...

 

I have not seen anything on any of my machines. I use AVG - keeping my fingers crossed. I sent a message to George to let him know.

 

Best antivirus evar!!! Avast free antivirus!

 

Webroot caught it at home and I didn't see a thing at work so our AV must of caught it there.

Why do people do this shit?

 

Trying to check but not finding anything so far. Tried these so far:

http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/socaltrailriders.org (McAfee)
http://www.avg.com.au/resources/web-page-scanner/
http://onlinelinkscan.com/

If anybody finds something that definitely identifies STR as a source of a virus or spyware let me know with any and all details, please!

 

NOD32 flagged these when I browsed STR.

 

george i am not a techie but it must be str, right?. look how many peeps are getting hit and the warnings they are getting are the site. as soon as i hit str this morning from work laptop (PC) the screen got funky and immediately warned of virus. my computer totally shit the bed right after. the run some sort of symantec AV at work and it did not work. please confirm upon identify/resolving if possible.

 

Everyone, at least download Microsoft Security Essentials. It is totally free. It caught it for me twice now on two laptops. One with Vista, one with XP. My desktop for some reason did not catch it. Firefox seemed to block a plugin from installing though. Might have saved me. I did a whole system scan last night on the desktop but nothing came up.

 

Yes my infection came from STR. STR asked Safari for a plugin to run something on STR's site. The download was a fake Apple plugin file then it disabled system restore, msconfig, and access to all drives. All my browsers took me to a antivirus site that claimed to be able to fix the problem for $.

My install of windows was nearly 3 years old so I just reformatted and reinstalled windows and upgraded to Windows 7. By the way Win 7 runs pretty nice.

Dean

 

Not saying it's not STR (the server has been hacked in the past). But I need to know what/where it is before I can deal with it. :-k

 

Anandtech forums used to have a good security guide with tons of FOSS. It has been awhile since I ran Windows, but I remember it being a great guide. Besides the free AV like Avast and AVG, there is the malware stuff like Spybot. It is a long list of stuff I am glad I don't have to worry about anymore, but could be a good guide to check to best secure your Windows box if you are not too tech savvy.

 

I Agree with Abui, This is what found, it was same as he had.
6/20/2010 9:14:07 AM Web Anti-Virus Detected: Exploit.Java.Agent.f Java(TM) Platform SE binary __http://fipuke.in/x/nc.jar/quote/Mailvue.class

There is not a lot on this other than it attacks not up to date versions of Java VM.

Last time you had an issue it was related to the ad network, are you only using Google ads only? It seems to be gone now, so if you did not do anything then someone else did...i.e. the ad network. Could be The big G they are not infallible. Could be the servers at your ISP etc...

I see some ad stuff buried from shareasale.com maybe you should check with them.

 

Same here......nothing popped up yet on my PCs.




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hate to say it, but the pub.ads are the problem. they are not OUR ads, from OUR supporting advertisers. Eff them George!!.

BTW, I don't "see" any of the adds anyway so it doesn't matter to me, but I'd rather know that our LBS's are giving us legit content, than subjecting us to this BS....

[/rant]

 

Hmm, hopefully that was the issue. I installed ClamAV onto the server and am trying to run a scan with it. If those ads weren't the issue and ClamAV doesn't find anything I may need to upgrade the forum software. Could get messy if that's the case.

:crossing fingers:

 

All of the Mac vs. PC BS has been deleted. Please get a life.