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Rockn93YJ moderator
Number of posts : 3671 Age : 57 Localisation : Knoxville, MD Registration date : 2007-01-20
| Subject: warning when visiting this forum? Thu Oct 28, 2010 10:21 am | |
| Suddenly when I click on the forum shortcut I get a message that pops up:
Warning: Visiting this site may harm your computer! The website at mrr4x4cforum.editboard.com contains elements from the site www.fileden.com, which appears to host malware – software that can hurt your computer or otherwise operate without your consent. Just visiting a site that contains malware can infect your computer. For detailed information about the problems with these elements, visit the Google Safe Browsing diagnostic page for www.fileden.com. Learn more about how to protect yourself from harmful software online. I understand that visiting this site may harm my computer.
Whats up with that? | |
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Locked_N_Loaded Admin
Number of posts : 1783 Age : 40 Localisation : Reading, PA Registration date : 2007-02-09
| Subject: Re: warning when visiting this forum? Thu Oct 28, 2010 11:09 am | |
| I'm looking into it now. There have been reports in the past of phpBB forums being vulnerable to attacks, however, it is pretty old news. I'll make sure we're running the latest version of phpBB while I'm at it.
It sounds like this warning is just a general prompt from anything that contains fileden elements.
From Google Safe Browsing page:
"What is the current listing status for fileden.com?
Site is listed as suspicious - visiting this web site may harm your computer.
Part of this site was listed for suspicious activity 3 time(s) over the past 90 days."
fileden.com is a site with a lot of file storage where users trade pirated software, files, porn, music, you name it, all of which can be infected.
Our images and forum elements are stored on fileden so that's the reason for the prompt.
I don't see any reason to worry. If others are seeing anything fishy please post it up. | |
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88blazeron40s Locker/Spool
Number of posts : 280 Age : 40 Localisation : Ashburn, VA Emploi : EDMS Registration date : 2010-05-05
| Subject: Re: warning when visiting this forum? Thu Oct 28, 2010 2:10 pm | |
| when i load up the site my spyware shit keeps telling me that i have a trojan horse | |
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Locked_N_Loaded Admin
Number of posts : 1783 Age : 40 Localisation : Reading, PA Registration date : 2007-02-09
| Subject: Re: warning when visiting this forum? Thu Oct 28, 2010 2:17 pm | |
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88blazeron40s Locker/Spool
Number of posts : 280 Age : 40 Localisation : Ashburn, VA Emploi : EDMS Registration date : 2010-05-05
| Subject: Re: warning when visiting this forum? Fri Oct 29, 2010 8:23 am | |
| yeah this is the only place it happens to me | |
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Rockn93YJ moderator
Number of posts : 3671 Age : 57 Localisation : Knoxville, MD Registration date : 2007-01-20
| Subject: Re: warning when visiting this forum? Fri Oct 29, 2010 9:39 am | |
| FYI i just deleted a Chinese spam post. | |
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Locked_N_Loaded Admin
Number of posts : 1783 Age : 40 Localisation : Reading, PA Registration date : 2007-02-09
| Subject: Re: warning when visiting this forum? Fri Oct 29, 2010 11:22 am | |
| Yah, when I was on the admin panel the other day I noticed a few guests logged from chinese ips. Fucking gay. | |
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Locked_N_Loaded Admin
Number of posts : 1783 Age : 40 Localisation : Reading, PA Registration date : 2007-02-09
| Subject: Re: warning when visiting this forum? Fri Oct 29, 2010 12:30 pm | |
| I'm keeping a close watch. phpBB is pretty good with security issues and seems to catch most security threats. They update regularly and seamlessly. Spammers are going to get through from time to time and I banned the user that registered with the spam you removed Bill. The last one was actually automatically picked up and banned. Anyway, as I said, keep me updated if anybody else notices issues.
Everything is backed up on a regular basis so there is no worry of losing anything. If the forum is infected, which I don't think it is, we can always backup to an earlier time before there was an issue. | |
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