A problem with infected ads on this forum

[NinjaPuppy]

SCEPCOP - Since the ads at the bottom of the forum pages here have been re-instated, I keep getting hijacked by alpha anti-virus. It's a malicious virus that requires the purchase of specific software, that is very expensive, to remove it. If you don't act quickly and accordingly, it downloads automatically on to your computer. I had no problem with this when the ads at the bottom of the forum were removed. Now that they are back, so is this virus.

[Scepcop]

How many times has this happened in the last few days?

The bottom ad is from Adbrite, and they usually have no history of having viruses in their ads.

Has this happened to anyone else here?

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http://www.malwarebytes.org/

I'll contact Adbrite and let them know about this. Which ad did it come from? If they can't remove it, I'll just have to remove the adbrite ad.

[NinjaPuppy]

It happens about one in ten hits to the 'Forums' button. I know it's going to happen because I hear a double click and BINGO! There's the little gray box to download the software. It attempts to load without me having to do anything and I have to exit the forum to stop it from autoloading.

I don't have time to look to see what ad is up at the time as it flips me right out of this forum to another screen and opens in second screen. All I know is that it started when AdBrite was at the bottom of the forums pages and ended when it was removed, and now it's back.

Thanks, I'll give that link a try and see if it helps. I am curious if I am the only one getting it.

[Nostradamus]

I have been once. Now Symantec seems to be stopping the attacks.

I used SpyBot S&D to clean up most of the trouble. I also used a tool that removed the last remnants of the infection.

[Nostradamus]

Read this article it might be the reason:


Title is "Major online ad site hacked, serving up exploit cocktail"

[brett]

must agree with one comment , i use firefox and have not as yet had many of the problems i had when using IE - try it its free and seems to work ok

[NinjaPuppy]

Ahhh, thanks.

I noticed that SCEPCOP switched the bottom ads to another company, and viola! The problem is now gone. I should have bought a Mac.

[Scepcop]

[NinjaPuppy]

No problems the last few days, thank you.

[NinjaPuppy]

OK, they're back today.

[ProfWag]

[NinjaPuppy]

[ProfWag]

Since I already bought a new computer, I'm not too concerned about Office on this one anymore so it's all good. This little computer was 3 years old anyway and had been dropped a few times so it was time for a new one anyway.
Thanks for the download info Nostradamus!

[Nostradamus]

Not sure of the origin of the file, but I did encounter an infected PDF file. It did not trouble me because I recently turned off Javascript in PDF files as recommended by Adobe. This is a must for everyone until Adobe ships a fix.

1. Start Adobe Reader
2. Go to edit>preferences in the menus
3. Click on Javascript on the left in the categories
4. At the top make sure enable Above Javascript is not checked

This makes the current PDF attack moot. All versions of Adobe reader including the most recent, which I have, are subject to the problem.

[Scepcop]

Are the viruses still on the forum? Where do they direct you to? Can you give me a URL? What do they do exactly?

Adbrite's strict anti-virus program should have eliminated them by now.