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**warsmith pyrus**

When I try to go on the forums on warseer a message ''possibly'' from my computer saying that malware from drelarus.cz.cc has been found on the site. Has this happened to anyone else?

**alarmingrick**

No, but i'll not be checking it out anytime soon. Thanks for the heads up!

**4M2A**

Same warning on my PC. Oddly my internet crashed when I tried to look deeper- not sure if it's connected.

**-Loki-**

For me, it used Adobe Reader to install MS Malware Remover, Scareware that looks like an MS Anti virus program that says your whole PC is 'infected', and the only way to fix it is to buy their software by giving them your bank details.

Peice of gak. Now I have to spend my day getting rid of it.

**Jackal**

Quality.
I check it and simply get a pop-up.

"1 Security risk detected and blocked"

Funny thing is, i have no security lol, its just the way i have FF running.

**Revenent Reiko**

Thank you Google Chrome

What is the current listing status for warseer.com/forums?
Site is listed as suspicious - visiting this web site may harm your computer.

Part of this site was listed for suspicious activity 2 time(s) over the past 90 days.

What happened when Google visited this site?
Of the 271 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 95 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 2011-04-03, and the last time suspicious content was found on this site was on 2011-04-02.
Malicious software includes 4 scripting exploit(s), 1 trojan(s). Successful infection resulted in an average of 2 new process(es) on the target machine.

Malicious software is hosted on 1 domain(s), including drelarus.cz.cc/.

This site was hosted on 1 network(s) including AS18450 (WEBNX).

**legoburner**

There has been a massive automated global attack lately against a huge number of websites using previously unknown exploits. From what I understand, warseer's ad system got taken out by (what I presume to be) it.

People who use Chrome or Firefox will be unaffected thanks to the good level of exploit detection, but those visiting warseer with Internet Explorer might find themselves getting infected with the fake anti-virus crap mentioned above.

Dakka does not use off the shelf technology for the front end, and the backend has a huge number of layers of security, so we've avoided it luckily.

**Tacobake**

I actually recently had huge problems with spyware/ malware. My WoW account got banned and my Windows drive shutdown. I couldn't figure out what happened I bet it got in through the browser.

**shingouki**

-Loki- wrote:For me, it used Adobe Reader to install MS Malware Remover, Scareware that looks like an MS Anti virus program that says your whole PC is 'infected', and the only way to fix it is to buy their software by giving them your bank details.

Peice of gak. Now I have to spend my day getting rid of it.

this happened to me on friday.proper cocked my comp up so i just took the pc back three days and voila.hope that helped(im not too hot with pc's)

**Morathi's Darkest Sin**

Well so far *touch wood* I haven't seen a virus since I picked up on something experienced PC folks had been doing for yonks, which is don't run as admin when you go online.

I was a little late to that party, only disovered it last year, and although not foolproof, gives some extra bonus protection just becasue certain viruses can't do anything with a user account.

**Quintinus**

LOL, people still go on Warseer?

**Asherian Command**

Wow thats bad lets hope that they can fix it.

**Revenent Reiko**

It's all fixed now apparently

**reds8n**

Indeed it is, all patched up and virus free.