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i havent been thru the front page for about a week now. no idea if the virus is still there....... anybody know???? admin????? has it been fixed????
Malware alert
- Thread starter snowrodeo
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J
You first!!!
I got a little carried away with that just minutes before they opened the new forum, tried logging into the new one and they had banned me for posting those on the old one!! I promised I'd be good.
M
I picked it up on Saturday the 9th, I got it as an E-mail notification that I had a P.M. When I logged in and saw there were no messages, I new it wasn't going to be good. The best part is when I went back to look for the E-mail in my trash bin, no chit, it was gone. We run the same virus program on our lap top's that we do on our desk PC's, I opened it on my lap top and it took my IT person all day to restore everything. Hope they got it handled.
W
Does anyone know of an online Virus removing program? My laptop is hosed.
A couple of free virus scanners:
http://www.pandasecurity.com/germany/homeusers/solutions/activescan/
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/
I figured out what's up... SnoWest was hit by what's called a SQL Injection Attack. There's a really, really nasty one going around that's affecting hundreds of sites. Basically, they're exploiting some security holes that is allowing the attackers to append a special text string to various fields in a site's database. What then happens is when a visitor views a page fed by those fields, their computer is tricked into downloading malware/spyware/viruses.
My Norton Internet Security picked this up on another site I went to, and I remembered this thread here, so I came to investigate.
In the off-chance the admin sees this and wants his database fixed, he can email or PM me and I'll be happy to help. It's not difficult to clean up the database, but the security holes will have to be plugged first.
Rob
http://www.pandasecurity.com/germany/homeusers/solutions/activescan/
http://housecall.trendmicro.com/
I figured out what's up... SnoWest was hit by what's called a SQL Injection Attack. There's a really, really nasty one going around that's affecting hundreds of sites. Basically, they're exploiting some security holes that is allowing the attackers to append a special text string to various fields in a site's database. What then happens is when a visitor views a page fed by those fields, their computer is tricked into downloading malware/spyware/viruses.
My Norton Internet Security picked this up on another site I went to, and I remembered this thread here, so I came to investigate.
In the off-chance the admin sees this and wants his database fixed, he can email or PM me and I'll be happy to help. It's not difficult to clean up the database, but the security holes will have to be plugged first.
Rob
It's stiil there
H
This sucks
Just logged on and it is still there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
:
COME ON ADMIN FIX THIS PROBLEM:
Maybe this will get their attention
Just logged on and it is still there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
:COME ON ADMIN FIX THIS PROBLEM
:Maybe this will get their attention
S
it got my laptop even with nortan, she was a goner, had to replace!
it got my laptop even with nortan, she was a goner, had to replace!
Replace your laptop? You have to be kidding me..
H
I run Norton 360 and it catches it for me to. But that is not the point to see if your virus protection is working!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I had 2 computers lock up on me and had to wipe them clean and start all over again. there was no program that could clean them up. i even took them to a computer tech and they have never seen a computer locked up so bad. i lost all usb functions, control panel wouldn't work, and system restore was gone.
V
I must be either lucky or Vista is taking care of itself. I'm here daily and I have yet to have a warning, a problem, or anything indicating this. Not doubting it's there, just odd that I'm not affected.
J
From what I've seen, the SQL Injection attacks have been pretty bad. For about the past month our IPS systems at work have been dropping on average around 500 attempts via SQL Injections... Not pretty...
-Jeff
norton 360 didn't catch it for me
Kept getting an error message saying "Internet Explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close" over and over and over and over...
Had to download "service pak 3" (?) from internet explorer to run an IE malware scan from microsoft that took 4 hours to scan. Found 66 items and 9 issues on my computer. Scan could only fix 54 of the 66 items and 7 of the 9 issues.
Been doing like suggested earlier in thread and saved link to forum page in favorites without going through homepage. Seems to be working.
I think it's the greenies behind this (Sierra Club, Nature Conservancy, Greater Yellowstone Coalition, Friends of the Wild Swan, etc.)
Kept getting an error message saying "Internet Explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close" over and over and over and over...
Had to download "service pak 3" (?) from internet explorer to run an IE malware scan from microsoft that took 4 hours to scan. Found 66 items and 9 issues on my computer. Scan could only fix 54 of the 66 items and 7 of the 9 issues.
Been doing like suggested earlier in thread and saved link to forum page in favorites without going through homepage. Seems to be working.
I think it's the greenies behind this (Sierra Club, Nature Conservancy, Greater Yellowstone Coalition, Friends of the Wild Swan, etc.)
B
Haven't had any problems yet, and the forums is my home page, just bypass the home page and do snowest.com/forum
This has been out for a while.... your best protection against stuff like this is to run windows update once a week or more.... if it is not on auto.
While the updates aren't necessary, they do protect your computer and if you don't have the latest ones, well.... it shows everyone where the flaws are at.
Kind of like reinstalling XP service pack one will connected to the internet... lasts about 5 minutes online.....
H
now i am getting popups frm here, never had that happen before
