Very good, thanks for the update, I think the survival of the site was at stake here. Thanks for keeping the adds off a while longer. It's important to make absolutely sure the problem is resolve.
Google has completed its review of AT and the forums and has cleared us both You shouldn't be seeing that Malware error any longer and more importantly, you shouldn't be seeing anything trying to infect you either
Our admin staff was up all night working on the problem, if you see anything else that's strange feel free to contact me directly: anand@anandtech.com.
Take care,
Anand
Very good, thanks for the update, I think the survival of the site was at stake here. Thanks for keeping the adds off a while longer. It's important to make absolutely sure the problem is resolve.
yep it was antivirus soft. pissed me off that MS security essentials didn't get it
Ya know ever time I tried to come here the last couples of days it was slower then heck. Now they load right in. Is this because the ads are gone?
Holy crap, I got that "Antivirus Soft" trojan too. Who would have guessed I got it from FORUMS FOR A COMPUTER WEBSITE. Good Lord. As everyone else said, it was a bitch to clean. Avira never caught it in the first place. It completely prevented me from running any program, and I couldn't get online in safe mode. I had to boot up normally then very quickly run task manager and kill it before it started blocking everything. Then it would keep coming back every few minutes so I had to mess with the registry and run Malwarebytes.
When a computer technology website is giving you viruses... well, that says a lot about that website.
Thanks for taking the time to respond at a professional level.
I know if this [h]appened on another site there would've been massive bannings due to discussion of blocking ads.
Anand, I've always thought you did this for a passion and not just to make a buck. Of course it helps put food on the table but you know what I mean.
AFAIK, no infection here with IE8.
I've run McAfee A/V, malware bytes, AdAware, and Spybot to check.
I realize that doesn't mean there's no infection...but if so, I haven't been able to find any.
I never had the issues (warnings) that many here have had, so maybe I missed it.
You still have windows installed dont you. :awe:
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The virus exploited a vulnerability in Adobe Reader, it's hardly fair to blame Mozilla for that. All Firefox does is pass the infected PDF over to Reader.Actually for those of you who did get infected, what browser/OS where you using? I still can't find anything on my PC but I'm still nervous there's something hidden that may have slipped in. Drive by viruses were not an issue before with firefox, but seems they are now. They've gone the way of IE sadly. It's still not as bad though, so I'm hoping it got blocked.
The virus exploited a vulnerability in Adobe Reader, it's hardly fair to blame Mozilla for that. All Firefox does is pass the infected PDF over to Reader.
Drive by viruses were not an issue before with firefox, but seems they are now.
They've gone the way of IE sadly.
I don't have adobe reader. Am I safe?
Not necessarily. When I visited the attack page, it also attempted a Java exploit, and probably had a few other gos at my system too. If you want to be safer, I have a suggested approach here for Windows XP/Vista/7. If you're not ready for the whole enchilada, at least make sure you've done steps 3-7, and 13-15.
Well I already use a non-admin account for everything. I did a safe mode scan with malware bytes and nothing turned up but I'm still a bit worried.
The virus exploited a vulnerability in Adobe Reader, it's hardly fair to blame Mozilla for that. All Firefox does is pass the infected PDF over to Reader.