07-25-2008, 12:44 PM
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Antivirus 2009 / "windows-defense.com" redirect & alert popup - resolved.
I'm not sure where to post this so I figured here would be good. Over the past two days, and on two machines, I've been getting this nasty "you've been infected - download our antivirus 2009 software to fix it" popup when accessing the EM forum. Clicking ok, cancel, or X brings me to their website and resizes my browser, etc. All the classic popup nasties. Just wanted you guys to be aware.
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07-25-2008, 01:33 PM
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We've heard this before and it's always turned out to be some sort of spyware on the person's computer/browser, so I'd look out for that were I you. I know we're not running any ad like that.
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07-25-2008, 01:39 PM
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I would normally agree, but I got this popup on two machines, my home machine which I just formatted last week, and a test machine at work which I've never used for the web before yesterday.  Is it possible that some type of spyware or something is riding on the back of one of your seemingly legit ads? |
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07-25-2008, 01:42 PM
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Well, then I just don't know. I'll wait to see if we can any other reports before I go have the server guy pour over it looking for infection.
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07-25-2008, 01:44 PM
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Cool, thanks for the acknowledgement. I'll let you know if I come across any more occurrences, and I'll try to grab more info about it if I do.
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07-25-2008, 01:50 PM
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Originally Posted by cmags
Cool, thanks for the acknowledgement. I'll let you know if I come across any more occurrences, and I'll try to grab more info about it if I do.
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Just PM me in response because I can only check the computer once a day and might miss a thread.
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07-25-2008, 02:05 PM
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I haven't seen that or any popups and I've been on EM a lot the last few days, making me think its not this site but something on your end.
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07-25-2008, 03:00 PM
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I got word from another guy, so if anyone else sees it, take a screen shot and I'll email it to our tech guy. Might take a while since I'm on the farm in MO and darin is in a cottage somewhere with 28k webnets, but we'll try our best,  |
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07-25-2008, 03:06 PM
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Ah, I forgot I paid off the advertising...
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07-25-2008, 03:35 PM
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Ah, I forgot I paid off the advertising...
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Even so, this isn't any advertising we'd choose to run. If there's something affecting the site it should show up for everyone.
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