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    High Risk Website

    I have a Sophos antivirus console that monitors 1000+ PC's. This website is bringing up alerts today.

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    yesss it has been doing it to me for the last few days or so

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    It is generating a lot of malware. I wouldn't suggest sitting on this site for too long until they fix it.

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    I'm on my work computer which is locked down and I'm getting nothing.
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    Listen, if no one cares when a crazy noodle walks in and executes children with a gun, no one cares about anything.

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    That you know of, shins. Your network admin can see way more activity than you can. I definitely wouldn't be on the site at work. I am an admin in my office, so its ok if my PC registers malware.

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    Ok. It's not just this website, but its effecting mostly vbulletin sites.

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    yeah I have friends who say they love MDS but they won't come here cause of viruses. I've never had trouble until a few days ago.

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    It's not a virus. Its spyware/malware/spam. It also could be a false positive.

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    I have Sophos antivirus and can monitor the admin console and haven't seen anything thus far. Maybe there are links on some threads that I haven't been in that are causing the alerts?

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    I see the alerts in my admin console.

    This wouldn't be the first time their expensive software has caused a lot of problems. Remember when one of their own developers accidently wrote a script that made EVERY PC across the nation bring up alerts? Thatwas about a year ago.

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    I detect nothing.

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    You know who we should ask about this? Faq-he's my tech go-to guy. I need his input before I make any rash decisions.

    "The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man" -Charles Darwin

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    Chelsea, if you are a ghost and reading mds, I command you to walk into the light.

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    how about now?

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    Now I'm good, but I'm also behind an apple device.

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    Quote Originally Posted by alaina02 View Post
    Now I'm good, but I'm also behind an apple device.
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    Ron was the best part, hands down.

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    Quote Originally Posted by J View Post
    how about now?
    Still constant pop-ups on my windows machine. We run Sophos. I contacted their engineers and it's not a problem on their end. If I stay on this site for too long, my console populates alerts like crazy.

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    i have malwarebytes anti-malware & its still going off like crazy

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    Malwarebytes is a great program! I only use it when I need it. I don't use it as a first line of defense.

    However, my first line of defense, doesn't want me on MDS.

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    I have AVG free and no problems.

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    oh you know i removed the ads from the forum. but not the articles. i'll fix that later.

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    J, still high risk website. I can help you track this! PM me!

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    Quote Originally Posted by PCP777 View Post
    I have AVG free and no problems.
    Me too - well, none that it's telling me about?? Maybe that's why this is my 4th ph/tablet in 8 mths?

    I was wondering what killed the others (admittedly, at least one died from hitting the floor when I fell asleep posting. The real culprit is clearly U.S timezones)

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    So, somebody is sitting behind a test domain, hiding their IP, and gaining access to the server. Did you have to upgrade the PHP J? I heard vbulletin sites had easy targets with the old PHP software.

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    it was a vbulletin exploit.

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