PC Virus Attack [Archive] - Simple Living Forums

Wildflower

1-16-13, 2:32am

The last 3 days that I have come to the Simple Living forums I've received a warning as soon as I get here that my virus protection has just blocked an attack on my computer.

What's up? Is there a virus here? Anyone else getting the same alert?

Alan

1-16-13, 7:34am

I haven't seen anything like that. If anyone else does, could you post the details here, or send me a message?

Tweety

1-16-13, 3:21pm

I got that notice too when opening this site today; my anti-virus program (Avast!) said that it just blocked a Trojan horse virus.

Simpler at Fifty

1-16-13, 7:23pm

http://www.avgthreatlabs.com/webthreats/info/blackhole-exploit-kit-detection/

I got it 15" ago. It was Blackhole Exploit Kit Detection. It is the #3 virus/threat at AVG.

Mrs-M

1-16-13, 8:48pm

Something strange happened late last night as I was finishing up here. A single line message/warning displayed across the screen. It consisted of a message (don't remember what it said), and a series of HTML slashes, dots, etc. I was unable to access the forum after that.

Prior to the message displaying, pages were loading excessively slow, then not at all.

razz

1-18-13, 10:09am

For the first time, I was just notified upon accessing this site, that Norton had stopped a virus. I took a few seconds to locate a piece of paper to copy down the Norton message, so noted only that the last words were "web toolkit 20."

I have the notepaper handy now.

Wildflower

1-19-13, 4:32am

Just happened again. Norton identified it as Blackhole Tool Kit Website 20.

Mrs-M

1-19-13, 1:35pm

AVG, just notified me (upon logging-in on the forum), that a thread was blocked.

Alan

1-19-13, 1:42pm

Which thread?

Mrs-M

1-19-13, 2:47pm

I'm sorry, Alan, I see I made a boo-boo in my spelling. I meant to say, threat. http://emoticoner.com/files/emoticons/smileys/doh-smiley.gif?1292867583

Wildflower

1-29-13, 9:53pm

Just happened again. Norton identified it as Blackhole Tool Kit Website 20.

Alan, same thing again as above, happened just a few minutes ago. First time in several days.

Alan

1-29-13, 10:08pm

I've done various scans on the site's file system and found one spambot, which is now quarantined.

The search continues.

ToomuchStuff

1-29-13, 11:15pm

If the search is continuing, maybe people could help you. I am wondering, if any of these are targeted ads (inserted ads that people see, based on their cookies and browsing history)?

If someone sees one, could they clear their cookies and retest?