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This Is Felony!
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 Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 12:48 am Post subject: viruses in this site? |
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i have Avast! installed onto my desktop, and whenever i go to the music forum and click on my topics "is indie popular in this forum?" and "Pain of Salvation", Avast! interferes saying that the page i'm loading contains malware.....
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edit: now it's happening on every topic, basically. even this one, damnnn. |
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MasterT
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| Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 1:37 am Post subject: |
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Yeah mine does the exact same thing. There was just a database update though, and earlier today I was fine, so I think it's just the update.
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Lunar Eclipse
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| Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 3:55 am Post subject: |
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Yeah, I don't think the site contains malware. <_<
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MasterT
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| Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 4:04 am Post subject: |
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Database was just updated again, it's fixed now.
lol avast.
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This Is Felony!
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| Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 4:31 am Post subject: |
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lol yeah
glad it's fixed, i get like three warning windows just trying to view a thread >.> |
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Shadowfox
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| Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2008 7:30 am Post subject: |
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| Lunar Eclipse wrote: | | Yeah, I don't think the site contains malware. <_< |
Considering there isn't even an ad anywhere I'd be surprised if there was "ware" of any kind here.
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Laogeodritt
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Well, actually, there are like 213102 different vectors on this site that could be used.
Firstly, it's possible for Javascript and VBScript to contain exploits, so it might have been a false positive in that regard. I think it's unlikely.
Otherwise, it's possible that, somehow, someone's sig or ava was infected. For example, simply renaming the file—although this would make for a broken image, it'd still download to the system and thus be detectable by an antivirus. Plus, Internet Explorer's "feature" to open a file based on its contents rather than its extension means that the malware could attempt to execute as an EXE/COM/PIF.
Likewise, there was that whole WMF vulnerability from a few months ago that'd be detected in antiviruses today. It's possible to rename it to a graphics format and have it execute. Again, IE's little feature doesn't help, I think.
Of course, if it resolved after an update, it was probably a random false positive...
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MasterT
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| Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 8:11 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah at first I figured it was someone's signature since at first it only went off in one topic, then it started going off everywhere. lol buggy software updates
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