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15-09-2010, 14:21
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Gabriola Island & Victoria, British Columbia
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CF Website Flagged as Dangerous
A short while ago I navigated to the forum only to have media player pop up and when I closed it IE informed that CF had been flagged as comprimised. The url that was attempting to load was some odd thing, which I suppose I should have written down before runnning screaming to my favorite hockey teams site instead.
All seems well now but I thought I should mention it. Two weeks ago my bank account was hacked to the tune of $17,000. Fortunately it was insured but the mess has only just been cleaned up. I've always thought of myself as carefull with regards to my web habits but there you have it. Not careful enough. I thought I sound the alarm to others out there.
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15-09-2010, 14:26
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Moderator
Join Date: May 2008
Location: cruising SW Pacific
Boat: Jon Sayer 1-off 46 ft fract rig sloop strip plank in W Red Cedar
Posts: 21,184
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We just had the same experience. Any ideas ??
Jim and Ann
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15-09-2010, 14:30
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Key West & Sarasota
Boat: Cal 28 "Happy Days"
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That's the nice part of being broke.... They wouldn't get $17.00 from me!
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15-09-2010, 14:31
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Boston, MA
Boat: Beneteau Oceanis 43 & S2 6.9
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Same here - I thought I mistyped the wrong address so I retyped and it went through, but checking history I did type it correct as well. So I didn't save the xploit info either.
My best guess is that it could have come from a google ad.
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15-09-2010, 14:36
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Winnipeg
Boat: None at this time
Posts: 8,462
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I refreshed the CF site after bringing my computer out of sleep mode and got an error message from MS Security Essentials.
Security Essentials removed an Exploit: Win32/Pidief.BE classed as severe.
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15-09-2010, 14:39
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Gabriola Island & Victoria, British Columbia
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After hearing of my banking problems a friend sent a news item about a online business that had been recently hacked and there shopping cart comprimised. Prehaps there's a virus out there at work?
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15-09-2010, 14:40
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Gabriola Island & Victoria, British Columbia
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I've just started a spyware scan of my drive I'll let you know if anything comes up.
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15-09-2010, 15:02
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Napa CA USA
Boat: Piver Victress
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My Avast Antivirus has just blocked a malware threat ... popped up as soon as I clicked on CF
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15-09-2010, 15:09
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Join Date: Mar 2004
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Just had the same experience. Luckily this is a govt computer, and I don't do any banking on line or via card.
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15-09-2010, 15:10
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Sponsoring Vendor
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Hollywood, Fl.
Boat: FP Athena 38' Poerava
Posts: 3,984
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Recieved thesame message
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15-09-2010, 15:14
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Gabriola Island & Victoria, British Columbia
Boat: Cooper 416 Honeysuckle
Posts: 6,933
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My drive scans clean.
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15-09-2010, 15:25
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: UK
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Quote:
Originally Posted by hummingway
My drive scans clean.
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I have not seen any pop-ups, but I use FireFox with the AdblockPlus add-on. There are known attacks against Internet Explorer in progress at present (see Stuxnet attackers used 4 Windows zero-day exploits | ZDNet )
Just curious if those seeing the pop-ups are using Internet Explorer or a variety of browsers.
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Ford Prefect: "Why? What did she say?"
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15-09-2010, 15:34
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CF Adviser
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: sausalito
Boat: 14 meter sloop
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my Symantec antivirus blocked something when I first logged on. I'm using Firefox.
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15-09-2010, 15:38
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: UK
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bash
my Symantec antivirus blocked something when I first logged on. I'm using Firefox.
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That seems to make it multi-browser. I use FF because I'm on Linux rather than windows and I have not seen a pop-up all night. I feel cheated somehow... Are you running Adblock with FF? I am and perhaps that stops the dodgy advert before it loads?
Update: Turned off Adblock and tried a few dozen reloads. Nothing......
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Arthur Dent: "I wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was younger"
Ford Prefect: "Why? What did she say?"
Arthur: "I don't know - I didn't listen!!"
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15-09-2010, 15:43
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CF Adviser
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: sausalito
Boat: 14 meter sloop
Posts: 7,260
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Quote:
Originally Posted by mintyspilot
That seems to make it multi-browser. I use FF because I'm on Linux rather than windows and I have not seen a pop-up all night. I feel cheated somehow... Are you running Adblock with FF? I am and perhaps that stops the dodgy advert before it loads?
Update: Turned off Adblock and tried a few dozen reloads. Nothing...... |
I do on my home computer, but I'm at a university computer at the moment with no adblock.
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