Forum and Java update malware? - Page 2

arsenalpow · #11 12-22-2011, 10:27 PM

a guildmate of mine just experienced the issue right now, like 2 minutes ago.

just an FYI, maybe track the ads from the last 10-15 minutes or so?

Uthgaard · #12 12-23-2011, 04:32 PM

Ads are unique to you, it's not something anyone else can see. Google chooses them for you based on your browsing, the forum is just the place where the box they appear in resides.

Seaweedpimp · #13 12-23-2011, 04:34 PM

This has also happened to me about the time this thread popped up.

Except i cant seem to get it to let me roll back either. I just have to keep task master up all the time now.

I swear i got the virus from these forums.

cmdrrickhunter · #14 12-23-2011, 06:03 PM

If you get a virus blocked message, check out what virus was named, and what antivirus you are using. For anyone concerned about viruses and this forum, it would be a simple search to find out if that malware spreads through ads or forum posts.

Avast hasn't found anything on my machine yet, for what it is worth.

Ninja · #15 12-23-2011, 06:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Seaweedpimp [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

This has also happened to me about the time this thread popped up.

Except i cant seem to get it to let me roll back either. I just have to keep task master up all the time now.

I swear i got the virus from these forums.

I had gotten that virus and removed it, I acquired it through a torrent,

Seaweedpimp · #16 12-23-2011, 06:50 PM

What im getting is exactly what getsome has. You have to remove "ping" and the soandso.com in the processes.

I dont download torrents, well i havent in over a year. This is recent.

cmdrrickhunter · #17 12-23-2011, 06:57 PM

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What im getting is exactly what getsome has. You have to remove "ping" and the soandso.com in the processes.

I dont download torrents, well i havent in over a year. This is recent.

Do you happen to remember the name of the virus, as described by your antivirus software? I did a search for ping.exe and apparently there's a few of them. There's also a virus named Ping.door which seems to be trouble. I'm assuming soandso.com was just a placeholder for the real .com file name.

Seaweedpimp · #18 12-23-2011, 07:02 PM

Im really terrible with computers, didnt want to say it but i dont even use virus protection, whenever something goes bad i just give it to a buddy and he fixes it.

The process that brings up the antivirus popup (fake av) is called something like skh.exe.
It used to pop up every time i qould click on EQ or click my sound meter down at the bottom right, next to the time.

I just manhandle it through task manager and it goes away for a bit.

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cmdrrickhunter · #20 12-23-2011, 07:30 PM

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Im really terrible with computers, didnt want to say it but i dont even use virus protection, whenever something goes bad i just give it to a buddy and he fixes it.

Its really worth it to take the time and get antivirus installed. You can even go the route I did, with Avast, because its free. It should be easy to install -- the hardest part is dodging around their attempts to get you to buy the non-free version (which has the same basic features... free is more than good enough).

As has been stated here, you really can't trust anything on the internet these days -- not even the work of our illustrious developers. I'd try to give you an analogy, depicting computer viruses like real life human infections, but frankly, the internet is such a cespool of rampant promiscuity that the analogy would probably have to be put in the Rants and Raves (NSFW) forum.

I don't know what you use your computer for besides eq99, but in general, I'd avoid typing your credit card or banking information into your computer from now until you reinstall windows (or move on to a new machine with antivirus). While, in the past, viruses have been relatively benign, focusing on replication, modern viruses bankrolled heavily by eastern European and Russian mafia is much more focused on monetizable data. Without knowing what particular virus you were hit with, there's no way of telling if something more insidious was left behind -- many viruses now open back doors that let "paying customers" put just about any software they please on your machine. Talk to your friend and see if he can identify the actual virus that hit you. A trip to the Symantec webpage for that virus will tell you if you have the benign replicating kind, or the moneygrubbing kind (look for words like "backdoor").

Antivirus doesn't make you invulnerable to these things, but it sure makes you the harder target.