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Just went shopping for bases, and got this message from my AVG antivirus when following a link from Dakka to Micro Art:

"Warning - visiting this web site may harm your computer!
Suggestions:

* Return to the previous page and pick another result.
* Try another search to find what you're looking for.

Or you can continue to http://www.microartstudio.com/ at your own risk. For detailed information about the problems we found, visit Google's Safe Browsing diagnostic page for this site.

For more information about how to protect yourself from harmful software online, you can visit StopBadware.org.

If you are the owner of this web site, you can request a review of your site using Google's Webmaster Tools. More information about the review process is available in Google's Webmaster Help Center.
Advisory provided by Google"

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A little more info:

"Safe Browsing
Diagnostic page for microartstudio.com

What is the current listing status for microartstudio.com?

Site is listed as suspicious - visiting this web site may harm your computer.

Part of this site was listed for suspicious activity 1 time(s) over the past 90 days.

What happened when Google visited this site?

Of the 14 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 1 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 2011-01-26, and the last time suspicious content was found on this site was on 2011-01-23.

This site was hosted on 1 network(s) including AS41499 (ACTIVE24).

Has this site acted as an intermediary resulting in further distribution of malware?

Over the past 90 days, microartstudio.com did not appear to function as an intermediary for the infection of any sites.

Has this site hosted malware?

No, this site has not hosted malicious software over the past 90 days.

How did this happen?

In some cases, third parties can add malicious code to legitimate sites, which would cause us to show the warning message.

Next steps:

* Return to the previous page.
* If you are the owner of this web site, you can request a review of your site using Google Webmaster Tools. More information about the review process is available in Google's Webmaster Help Center."



Anyone have a way of contacting the site owners of Micro Art to alert them to the problem?

Been on their site numerous times.

Never had any problems with viruses.

They announced on Monday

Currently we have problems with our server, so the shop, forum and site don't work. Mail is working so if you have some questions just email us - info@microartstudio.com When something changes we'll inform you immediately. We apologize for any inconvenience.

so I would guess it is something to do with that perhaps ?

there seems to be a concerted effort by hackers against game related sites. i kept getting a message at boardgamegeek to download a file when i tried to access their front page, enworld.org was hacked, and now MAS.

The Classic Battletech forums were also hacked, and had to be completely restarted.

Ordofanaticus.com has been under attack for a couple of weeks now.

So GW has deckers carrying out shadowruns against bothersome parties now?

Games Workshop's new Online Division strikes!

SilverMK2 wrote:Games Workshop's new Online Division strikes!

"When sueing is just not enough!"

Now we all know what they were really doing at their facility in China...

CT GAMER wrote:So GW has deckers carrying out shadowruns against bothersome parties now?

seems that way, the mechanicus site has taken a few hits as well

I can attest to microartstudios.com being compromised. Google, FireFox, and Norton all tried to stop me from going there, and when I finally got through, it was a mess.

This isn't really a concerted effort, right?

Hey, a bit off topic, but are both of dakka's super secret server locations secure? WE cant/wont get hacked, right? Right?

Thanks Red S8n - glad to know they are aware of the problem and hopefully, will be back soon.

I find it worrysome that the community seems to be under attack so much. I would imagine that someone stumbled across our little niche of a community and realized that we have an awful lot of small-biz and DIY websites with high, interlinked traffic which are vulnerable to concentrated attack.

Hopefully D2 is well protected.

Someone needs to guard Legoburner surely?!

I suggest either a pointed stick or vast amounts of Weiner Dogs...

Just Dave wrote:Someone needs to guard Legoburner surely?!

I suggest either a pointed stick or vast amounts of Weiner Dogs...

Odly, our man frazzeled has both...

So GW is like Russia, using the mafia to do the dirty work!