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Hi all,

Just thought I'd post this as I tried to go to Warseer just now and it brought up loads of trojan virus warnings on my Kaspersky anti-virus. To be precise it was 3 virus's and 1 Trojan before I managed to close the window.

Can anyone else confirm this.

Cara

If anything, Warseer is down right now for me.

Yeah, I opened up a bunch of tabs in the morning one day, and my computer went nuts and did all kinds of stuff. It even disabled my task manager (I'm the administrator, but it said the administrator did it). I eventually just did a system restore when I was regained some control, but it was quite off-putting.

The kicker is that I rarely ever go there (or even here) anymore.

It was fine for me this morning but it has just gone mental just now.

Is this really news anymore? These days it seems that the real news would be "Warseer NOT firing viruses at you left, right and center"...

*Deeeeeeep sigh*

One day.... one day.....

It has progressed from weekly to almost every other day.

It appears that they are using an exploit in the banner ads.

Those poor guys over there....Why would someone do something like that to a public forum?!?!?! I just dont get it.....

One forum that im not going to visit again from it being constant :/

Last thing i want is to get a virus checking a game site while at work or home.

Seem to be quite a bit of hacking going on recently. Deviant art got hacked also and I got virus warnings from that too.

What are these viruses you speak of?
lol Linux

Warseer got me a couple of hours ago. This is getting old.

That sucks. I feel a lot of sympathy for all the sites which don't have Lego or someone with similar ninja skills as their admin.

Those banner ad exploits seem to be particular bastards.

Its down completely now, theres even a page from the Admin team saying they have been the target of 'malicious malware attacks' and it will be back up in a week

LOL I think this deserves them right. Treating people differently over there. They keep banning people while other it's ok thier own can do it to others.

I guess it's Karma, what comes around goes around.

Davor wrote:LOL I think this deserves them right. Treating people differently over there. They keep banning people while other it's ok thier own can do it to others.

I guess it's Karma, what comes around goes around.

Please remember the Dakka Dakka rule about NOT slagging off other Forums when you're on Dakka Dakka.

Thanks!

I was on there earlier and didn't get any trojans or viruses or anything. Macs win again!

Onnotangu wrote:What are these viruses you speak of?
lol Linux

Necros wrote:I was on there earlier and didn't get any trojans or viruses or anything. Macs win again!

It doesn't matter what OS you use, Warseer itself is the target of these attacks and it's unfortunately down. PCs, Macs, and Linux users all can't access a downed site. However, the difference between PC users and Mac/Linux users is that we don't have to compensate for our OS with smugly irrelevant comments.

Alpharius wrote:

Davor wrote:LOL I think this deserves them right. Treating people differently over there. They keep banning people while other it's ok thier own can do it to others.

I guess it's Karma, what comes around goes around.

Please remember the Dakka Dakka rule about NOT slagging off other Forums when you're on Dakka Dakka.

Thanks!

Sorry I forgot.

ssREV wrote: (I'm the administrator, but it said the administrator did it). I eventually just did a system restore when I was regained some control, but it was quite off-putting.

The kicker is that I rarely ever go there (or even here) anymore.

The administrator did do it. The virus, using your administrator account, took control of your computer. This would be a good reason to finally stop running as administrator!

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/06/the-windows-security-epidemic-dont-run-as-an-administrator.html

Necros wrote:I was on there earlier and didn't get any trojans or viruses or anything. Macs win again!

Norton warned me (and stopped) an attack from warseer earlier today for me.

Don't gloat too much.

Warseer may have been attacked first because it has a greater profile than other sites.

I hope the MODs here are on the case already to stop a repeat on Dakka

Yeah, Warseer's down and will stay that way probably until May. The guys at Warseer have very reasonably not charged their advertisers for April's service given the challenges they've been facing.

Speaking as both a gamer and as a corporate sponsor of Warseer, I've always found their management to be professional and helpful and feel certain that they will be able to pick the forum back up and set it on its feet stronger and safer than ever.

R.

RevEV wrote:Don't gloat too much.

Warseer may have been attacked first because it has a greater profile than other sites.

I hope the MODs here are on the case already to stop a repeat on Dakka

Dont worry about that, lego is more than capable of keeping us all safe, happy, and malware free

What part of "don't slag off other forums" was not clear to you? -The Mgmt.

Absolutionis wrote:

Onnotangu wrote:What are these viruses you speak of?
lol Linux

Necros wrote:I was on there earlier and didn't get any trojans or viruses or anything. Macs win again!

It doesn't matter what OS you use, Warseer itself is the target of these attacks and it's unfortunately down. PCs, Macs, and Linux users all can't access a downed site. However, the difference between PC users and Mac/Linux users is that we don't have to compensate for our OS with smugly irrelevant comments.

We OSX users like to be smug whenever we can. It's not our fault PC users choose to use an unstable OS.

Ah, so that's why Google was going nuts yesterday. Thought it was a false positive, but decided to wait it out. Besides... why on Earth would someone go after Warseer? It's a well known forum, granted, but catering for a very specific group of people. Strange.

augustus5 wrote:

Absolutionis wrote:

Onnotangu wrote:What are these viruses you speak of?
lol Linux

Necros wrote:I was on there earlier and didn't get any trojans or viruses or anything. Macs win again!

It doesn't matter what OS you use, Warseer itself is the target of these attacks and it's unfortunately down. PCs, Macs, and Linux users all can't access a downed site. However, the difference between PC users and Mac/Linux users is that we don't have to compensate for our OS with smugly irrelevant comments.

We OSX users like to be smug whenever we can. It's not our fault PC users choose to use an unstable OS.

So you're not using a Personal Computer?
You don't have to be smug to other OS users especially when you use a proprietary OS that is no better than the one you bash, contrary to popular belief Mac OS can crash and does just like Windows 7.
Between a proprietary OS with little compatibility and arrogant commercials and one that offers compatibility and similar stability I would use the later.
All in all most OS have their pros and cons and you can have very good reasons to whichever you choose.

Now back on topic, going to Warseer in the recent weeks has gotten me to infect some school computers with virii, good thing is we have competent tech support and up to date anti-virus software so all is fine.
All in all I am not going back to Warseer without a Linux system before a long while.
BTW all infections I found came from Warseer.com the homepage and never the forum.

Mannahnin wrote:That sucks. I feel a lot of sympathy for all the sites which don't have Lego or someone with similar ninja skills as their admin.

Those banner ad exploits seem to be particular bastards.

Unless you guys are hosting the site at Legoburners house (or someone else's place and NOT using a hosting company) you're just as vulnerable to it. We had about 30 of our websites get hammered with this crap, turns out it was on the hosting company's side of things, and there was nothing we could do to fix it, but wait on them.

augustus5 wrote:

Absolutionis wrote:

Onnotangu wrote:What are these viruses you speak of?
lol Linux

Necros wrote:I was on there earlier and didn't get any trojans or viruses or anything. Macs win again!

It doesn't matter what OS you use, Warseer itself is the target of these attacks and it's unfortunately down. PCs, Macs, and Linux users all can't access a downed site. However, the difference between PC users and Mac/Linux users is that we don't have to compensate for our OS with smugly irrelevant comments.

We OSX users like to be smug whenever we can. It's not our fault PC users choose to use an unstable OS.

OSX has its fair share of bugs and security issues, just as many as Windows. Problem is there isn't enough people using Macs to justify writing malware targeting them. I will feel REALLY bad for users like you when they do, because there are almost no tools to help remove that crap from OSX when you do get it. (Posted from a MacBook Pro)

Well I have the best of both worlds... new macbook pro and a dual boot running windows 7... though all I really use it for is army builder and testing out websites I'm working on

God damn these* multiple threads.

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