FAUST.

[Suu]

I think there's a virus attached to the ad at the bottom. I keep getting buzzed by Avast that there's a thread.

[Suu]

Okay, it's happened 3 times, and Blight mentioned him getting it as well.

[Phox]

 

I'm not getting an alert. I have Avast, also. How does the site select ads?

[Suu]

There always there at the bottom.

[Phox]

There always there at the bottom.

Ok, so they don't change from user to user or anything fancy like that? Then that is indeed strange that you and Blight would get alerts and I wouldn't.

[Suu]

It's from the Ukraine. I traced the IP. 

91.217.162.176


DO NOT CLICK.

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

I have adblock

[Triple Zero]

I think there's a virus attached to the ad at the bottom. I keep getting buzzed by Avast that there's a thread.

Avast is right. There is a thread.

Don't worry about until it becomes a threat.



Also, didn't you recently have a virus? You sure it's gone? Wiped everything, reinstalled, not used any Word documents or PDFs from when you were infected? Cause a virus can easily change anything in your internets pages. My gf had some thing that always popped up a fake antivirus message whenever she googled something and clicked a result (but not for all searches), until we wiped the whole thing.

[Triple Zero]

I have adblock

Serious advice, use NoScript in addition to that. And don't use anything else except Firefox. That alone will keep you safe from 99.99999999% if not all browser-based viruses. NoScript might be annoying at first until you whitelist the websites that make up 95% of your browsing habits and require Flash and/or JavaScript, but they are less than you think, and after that you are perfectly safe.

Additionally, "Javascript" is something entirely different than "Java". Hardly any modern website actually uses Java anymore, while Java plugins and the JVM are full of exploits and bad stuff, so you might as well disable Java completely, as well as uninstall anything Java-related from your Software uninstall screen in windows, because, unless maybe you need it for some sort of work-related application, you really don't need it and it's a huge attack surface.
On the other hand, "Javascript" is used by pretty much every modern website nowadays, but a lot of them degrade gracefully if you disable it, and using NoScript you can manage exactly which sites get to use Javascript and/or Flash and which don't.

[Suu]

I think there's a virus attached to the ad at the bottom. I keep getting buzzed by Avast that there's a thread.

Avast is right. There is a thread.

Don't worry about until it becomes a threat.



Also, didn't you recently have a virus? You sure it's gone? Wiped everything, reinstalled, not used any Word documents or PDFs from when you were infected? Cause a virus can easily change anything in your internets pages. My gf had some thing that always popped up a fake antivirus message whenever she googled something and clicked a result (but not for all searches), until we wiped the whole thing.

I was buzzed. :P


But no, it popped up again this morning, "Threat Detected!" And it's blocking whatever it is. An exe file from that IP address I posted. I got rid of the virus I had, it's not the same thing. I'll look into getting AdBlock. I have AdAware but it never does ANYTHING.

[AFK]

I had something weird happen to my computer this morning too while I was on the site, but it was when I was checking out the Facebook thread.  I figured it was something that was attached to that Facebook application. 

[Suu]

Weird. I don't think hotlink images from Facebook, so mine is hosted at Photobucket. Can viruses go through hyperlinks? 

[AFK]

Well, shortly after I clicked on the link for that Facebook app, my anti-virus thing popped up and detected some changes that were being made to my computer.  One of the changes was making something a start-up program.  so I rolled back the changes.  But then some box popped up that looked like it was scanning my computer but it obviously was some kind of spam or something (I don't know the technical term) as it wasn't my actual anti-virus program.  Eventually I was able to get whatever was happening to stop. 

[Suu]

Alright, I'll see if I can get an admin to delete the thread.

[AFK]

Well, I don't really understand what happened.  I'm not the most computer-savvy person in the world, so I wouldn't necessarily act on my account.  Nobody else has made any complaints about that link so it may have been something else that coincided.  I only mentioned it because other people had weird stuff happening.