virus just came from GD forum here - other thread poster was right

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - virus just came from GD forum here - other thread poster was right

Posted: 9/18/2009 8:33:39 PM EDT

I just read a post from smeone saying SF caused a virus attack, but i blew it off. 2 min later my system got hosed. The only site I had open was the AR15 GD.

No I havent been to any questionable sites. I am an IT worker and failiar with virus attacks. It does appear the attack somehow originated here.

Can someone check into this? I am having to post this warning w my phone btw, sorry for not adding more detail.

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Posted: 9/18/2009 8:37:51 PM EDT

[#1]

Well.....maybe the DU trolls are trying to sabotage us.

Posted: 9/18/2009 8:40:47 PM EDT

[#2]

there are some nasty malware, masquerade as an anti virus application casting about

My kids PC got one called "total security" that shut down nearly every other process

and wrote a nastygram to the desktop image

I finally killed it by task managering it off as it launched

and then firing symantic upon its processes

Posted: 9/18/2009 8:44:06 PM EDT

[#3]

Quoted:

there are some nasty malware, masquerade as an anti virus application casting about

My kids PC got one called "total security" that shut down nearly every other process

and wrote a nastygram to the desktop image

I finally killed it by task managering it off as it launched

and then firing symantic upon its processes

I nominate you to go to the SF and check it out....

Posted: 9/18/2009 8:44:46 PM EDT

[#4]

I got one from here one time somebody posted a link and when I clicked on it it dumped everything on my system. Its was a nasty land mine be careful out there...

Posted: 9/18/2009 8:46:07 PM EDT

[#5]

what's SF?

Posted: 9/18/2009 8:46:54 PM EDT

[#6]

Survival Forum

Posted: 9/18/2009 8:48:43 PM EDT

[#7]

Mine did it from a google search from here before he posted it about mine

I downloaded the malware shit and was clean

So i have no freaking idea what the hell is up

Posted: 9/18/2009 8:48:56 PM EDT

[#8]

We need a point man...any takers?

Posted: 9/18/2009 8:50:20 PM EDT

[#9]

Oh shit....just got back from SF...now it burns when I pee!!!!

Posted: 9/18/2009 8:50:25 PM EDT

[#10]

No issues for me in SF!

Edit:
Although someone did offer me candy to get in their van!

Heres the picture I snapped, and btw, don't get in that van, theres no candy!

Posted: 9/18/2009 8:51:08 PM EDT

[#11]

I'll go.

I'm running Linux right now so it wont affect me.

Just tell me what threads I should be hitting up.

Posted: 9/18/2009 8:54:56 PM EDT

[#12]

Quoted:
Oh shit....just got back from SF...now it burns when I pee!!!!

Posted: 9/18/2009 9:00:29 PM EDT

[#13]

Quoted:
Survival Forum

oh

so the survival guys prepared for everything except a computer virus?

disappointing

Posted: 9/18/2009 9:01:54 PM EDT

[#14]

Computer virus > canned beets

Posted: 9/18/2009 9:10:36 PM EDT

[#15]

Quoted:

I just read a post from smeone saying SF caused a virus attack, but i blew it off. 2 min later my system got hosed. The only site I had open was the AR15 GD.

No I havent been to any questionable sites. I am an IT worker and failiar with virus attacks. It does appear the attack somehow originated here.

Can someone check into this? I am having to post this warning w my phone btw, sorry for not adding more detail.

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You're an "IT worker" and you can't provide anything just a touch more useful than a "virus attack"???

Not... the thread you got it from? What you clicked? What virus it was? What the fuck

Posted: 9/18/2009 9:12:10 PM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:
Computer virus > canned beets

Posted: 9/18/2009 9:12:54 PM EDT

[#17]

Quoted:

Quoted:
I just read a post from smeone saying SF caused a virus attack, but i blew it off. 2 min later my system got hosed. The only site I had open was the AR15 GD.

No I havent been to any questionable sites. I am an IT worker and failiar with virus attacks. It does appear the attack somehow originated here.

Can someone check into this? I am having to post this warning w my phone btw, sorry for not adding more detail.

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You're an "IT worker" and you can't provide anything just a touch more useful than a "virus attack"???

Not... the thread you got it from? What you clicked? What virus it was? What the fuck

Seriously.

Send me an IM or something and I'll check it out. I'll even do my best to sift through the page source and see if it is indeed coded into arfcom and not a link.

Posted: 9/18/2009 9:19:15 PM EDT

[#18]

i was @ SF earlier ... i'm clean, just finished virus scans ....

Posted: 9/18/2009 9:31:35 PM EDT

[#19]

There's no virus here that I can find... care to provide some more data?

Posted: 9/18/2009 9:33:41 PM EDT

[#20]

THe sky is falling, the sky is falling

Posted: 9/19/2009 5:57:38 AM EDT

[#21]

It MIGHT be possible to pic up a virus from an image, but doubtful it can come thru your browser.

Clicking a link might be a good possibility, but a virus or malware coming directly from SF would be pretty remote.

Many people THINK as soon as the ugly bastage rears it's head, well, that's the site you got it from. Any good cracker building this kind of shit knows you don't want to activate too quickly, it would be to obvious. Wait for 20 minutes, or 20 days, or 20 clicks, the on the 20th or after you spread out to 20 more machines.

Also, just because one machine can pick up a virus, doesn't mean the next can, and I'm not talking a Windoze box vs a Mac or Linux box, I'm talking one XP vs another XP.

Nobody got a virus from google, as evil as they are, not gonna happen.

ETA: An "IT worker" and you don't know how this shit works and how to stop it? Interesting, no, we're not hiring in case you were wondering.

Posted: 9/19/2009 6:00:00 AM EDT

[#22]

Firefox with 'No Script' plugin and a good AV solution. If you can manage to infect yourself with these things in place, you have to be trying to do so.

Posted: 9/19/2009 6:01:07 AM EDT

[#23]

So it begins...

Posted: 9/19/2009 6:02:24 AM EDT

[#24]

The source for SF, GD, BOTD and every other subforum is exactly the same, theyre each just running a different query

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Posted: 9/19/2009 6:05:12 AM EDT

[#25]

Quoted:

I'll go.

I'm running Linux right now so it wont affect me.

Just tell me what threads I should be hitting up.

This. What is a virus?

Posted: 9/19/2009 6:14:09 AM EDT

[#26]

Quoted:
I just read a post from smeone saying SF caused a virus attack, but i blew it off. 2 min later my system got hosed. The only site I had open was the AR15 GD.

No I havent been to any questionable sites. I am an IT worker and failiar with virus attacks. It does appear the attack somehow originated here.

Can someone check into this? I am having to post this warning w my phone btw, sorry for not adding more detail.

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what exactly do you do in IT.

you should know better.

YOU are infected but it didn't come from here.

Posted: 9/19/2009 6:19:00 AM EDT

[#27]

I don't mean to be rude, but I'm not sure I can help it.

Suffice it to say that this sort of question (and the stunning lack of detail) seems really odd for somebody who professes to work in Information Technology for a living.

Posted: 9/19/2009 6:21:45 AM EDT

[#28]

Im in SF regularly....no issues here.
ARFCOM is one of the safest site you are going to surf.

Posted: 9/19/2009 6:22:16 AM EDT

[#29]

I was in the SF forum and had no problems. I am prepped rice, ammo, Tamiflu... also I have a Mac....

Posted: 9/19/2009 6:25:08 AM EDT

[#30]

Quoted:
Just tell me what threads I should be hitting up.

This. What is a virus?

[/quote]

Don't know ... been running Microsoft products since DOS 3.1 did get one back about 20-years ago called "Stoned" on DOS 3.3 - that was the last one I ever had. Where's the tread?

Posted: 9/19/2009 6:25:18 AM EDT

[#31]

I surf the SF multi daily, and am G2G. I think the problem is on your end.

Posted: 9/19/2009 6:26:10 AM EDT

[#32]

Quoted:

Quoted:
there are some nasty malware, masquerade as an anti virus application casting about

My kids PC got one called "total security" that shut down nearly every other process
and wrote a nastygram to the desktop image

I finally killed it by task managering it off as it launched
and then firing symantic upon its processes

I nominate you to go to the SF and check it out....

Don't worry, we'll follow in right behind you for backup.

Posted: 9/19/2009 6:55:10 AM EDT

[#33]

Quoted:

I was in the SF forum and had no problems. I am prepped rice, ammo, Tamiflu... also I have a Mac....

Won't all the other people in the commune eat your food and use up your meds?

Posted: 9/19/2009 7:02:52 AM EDT

[#34]

Quoted:
Im in SF regularly....no issues here.
ARFCOM is one of the safest site you are going to surf.

Ditto

Posted: 9/19/2009 7:05:37 AM EDT

[#35]

Quoted:

Cases of toilet paper used as currency > Computer virus > canned beets

Posted: 9/19/2009 7:07:14 AM EDT

[#36]

Is BOTD still safe????????????

Posted: 9/19/2009 7:11:03 AM EDT

[#37]

Quoted:

I just read a post from smeone saying SF caused a virus attack, but i blew it off. 2 min later my system got hosed. The only site I had open was the AR15 GD.

No I havent been to any questionable sites. I am an IT worker and failiar with virus attacks. It does appear the attack somehow originated here.

Can someone check into this? I am having to post this warning w my phone btw, sorry for not adding more detail.

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I'm not buying this. Not one bit.

Posted: 9/19/2009 7:13:05 AM EDT

[#38]

I am doing my best to clean up my computer now. It keeps shuting off the page I'm on. I know very little about computers, and was dumb enough to pay a mallware virus to protect me from it's self. Cancled my credit card, but my computer is still fudged.

I didn't get my virus here. It was in an email in my in box.

Posted: 9/19/2009 7:16:14 AM EDT

[#39]

Quoted:
I don't mean to be rude, but I'm not sure I can help it.

Suffice it to say that this sort of question (and the stunning lack of detail) seems really odd for somebody who professes to work in Information Technology for a living.

Posted: 9/19/2009 7:16:40 AM EDT

[#40]

I do pc repair and work in the Staples Easy tech. I haven't had any viruses here.

Actually I haven't had a virus in over 8 years and I only use free software and download from some pretty questionable sites.

Where is this virus supposedly?

Posted: 9/19/2009 7:21:19 AM EDT

[#41]

Quoted:
I just read a post from smeone saying SF caused a virus attack, but i blew it off. 2 min later my system got hosed. The only site I had open was the AR15 GD.

No I havent been to any questionable sites. I am an IT worker and failiar with virus attacks. It does appear the attack somehow originated here.

Can someone check into this? I am having to post this warning w my phone btw, sorry for not adding more detail.

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Know that guy at the help desk that asks if your sure the power is turned on and the keyboard is plugged in???

HERE HE IS LADY'S AND GENTLEMEN

Posted: 9/19/2009 7:29:49 AM EDT

[#42]

Posted: 9/19/2009 7:31:08 AM EDT

[#43]

sky is falling crap

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