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Post by Major, Cory J on Feb 20, 2011 23:17:50 GMT
That's great sonny that you got it all worked out. I'm all fixed now though. Maybe a discount on my next CSS purchase  lol |
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Post by Sonny Suttles on Feb 21, 2011 0:10:35 GMT
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Post by Bogus on Feb 21, 2011 2:07:16 GMT
Hmmm, this is unfortunate. Fake antiviruses are the scourge of the Internet these days. Guess they've gotten tired of propagating it through porn/warez type sites and are now going after other peoples' legit stuff.
As far as Windows v. Linux security, they can and do both get viruses. One of the first internet worms actually targeted BSD, and last year there was a big mess when it came out that one of the big distros (don't remember which one offhand) got the source code itself compromised and nobody noticed for several months. Linux isn't as popular a target because its users are almost exclusively computer literate, i.e. very unlikely to fall for a scam like this, and 21st century malware is all about the money.
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Post by Sir Tre on Feb 21, 2011 3:52:34 GMT
i am not getting it... is it possible that yall were it with a phisher site?
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Post by Major, Cory J on Feb 21, 2011 4:49:17 GMT
Didn't get everybody, and even Sonny stated that they had found an issue which has been fixed.
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Post by Bogus on Feb 21, 2011 4:57:55 GMT
Well he's fixed it now, and apparently contacted a (hopefully legit) security firm to keep an eye on things. I wasn't there so I don't know what went down but usually their MO is to either hack into the web host directly and modify the page HTML to point to whatever nasty they want visitors downloading, or attempt to hijack the domain name and route it to their own server.
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Post by Sean (Shadowhowler) on Feb 21, 2011 14:46:06 GMT
^ This.
People who think their personal favs... be it Mac's or PC's running Linux or whatever their favorite flavor is... are imune to virus are kidding themselves. Its all about numbers. As windows is, by FAR, the largest and most used OS in the world... that is what viruses are writen for. If another OS became top dog, then the vast majority of viruses would be writen for that OS. Its all numbers. Infect the most systems you can, period.
I also tried to go to CSS and got the error message and the page was down... but I didn't pick up any virus. I'm still running Windows XP and use Firefox as a browser and Avast! is my only security... so its not like my computer is Ft. Knox.
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Post by Sir Tre on Feb 21, 2011 17:39:25 GMT
the thing about fake antivirus scans, is that they are not usually virus, but spyware asking your permission to get in your computer. i am sure that there are virus ones too tho. i have even heard conspiracy theories that the manufactures of computers and software are the ones who actually make these things just so you will have a broke computer or buy a lot of extra software to prevent it.... what ever is the cause, it is still best to have security. we chose mcaffee because the company we worked for had to comply with federal regs for patient info protection, and that is the software they use to protect it. started off like 49 bucks per year but now it is like 69 per year. and it cover license for 3 computers. it is the total protection package. has anti virus, antispy, email scan, download scan, real time protection, vault, defrag tools, shredder, etc.
then i even went and purchased a registry cleaner from their site.... with all these tools, i not only have protection, but i also have what it takes to make my computer to keep working right without giving God knows who access to my computer from internetville, to hopefully fixit without trying to spyware me. the cleaner cost 29.95 and have already installed it on 4 computers with no prob.... probably more later.
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Post by Bogus on Feb 21, 2011 19:44:17 GMT
Tre's got a good point, most rogue antiviruses aren't considered a virus per se and so a normal antivirus won't catch it (though they will obviously get the viruses it tries to install on your system). The line between viruses and spyware/adware/hijackers/etc. is becoming *very* blurry lately, so I just call it all malware--not sure if AV developers have gotten wise to this yet or not. I actually ran into one of these a few years ago, IIRC I got rid of it with a combination of SpybotSD and manually changing some registry keys it had taken over.
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Post by Sir Tre on Feb 22, 2011 3:28:05 GMT
you wanna get really weird... anti is till one of them only user friendly
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2011 5:35:23 GMT
Actually I would say that OS's are not all equally secure. Mac OS X is by far the least secure of the big 3 (I'm counting all Linux OS's as one for now) and will become a larger target if it gets more popular. I'm not 100% sure, but I think Windows is a bit less secure than Linux is. There is definitely a reason people use Linux servers instead of Windows ones. As one guy said, "I like to measure my uptimes in months and years, not days and weeks."
If anyone wants to try Linux but isn't sure they can figure it out, I would recommend Pinguy OS (which somehow manages to be a dumbed down version of Ubuntu).
Also, the type of malware mentioned (the kind that pretends to be an anti-malware program) is usually attached to the user account. You can often get rid of it by logging in as Administrator and replacing the user account out. The only way to be really sure it's gone though is to delete Windows and start over.
As for personal testimony... I've gotten this type of malware probably 3 times in the past year due to my laziness in not installing an anti-malware program. This is on Windows. I also use OpenSuse and Ubuntu Linux and have never had a malware issue with them.
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Post by Kristie on Feb 23, 2011 15:10:09 GMT
In any case, looks like the site's back up and running, in case anyone was wondering...
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lol
