Malicious software attack

[MX5]

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Robert - I think you need to contact those [above] who have been getting warnings to see if they can provide fuller details to help your investigations. But you may want to seriously consider lockdown ... if only for due diligence.

[crusoe]

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Problem is happening on my desktop running XP and IE8. Although it hasn't happened when I logged in just now. Have not had any problem with my laptop running Windows 7 and IE9.

[hhcanon]

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Problem is happening on my desktop running XP and IE8. Although it hasn't happened when I logged in just now. Have not had any problem with my laptop running Windows 7 and IE9.

Same here

[djguk47]

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Saw this on Microsoft site.... I suspect it means nothing as regards the "gotchas" that people are experiencing but it is about IE 8

2659410 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2659410/ ) An "Access Violation" error may occur in Internet Explorer 8 when you browse from a website that is using Internet Explorer 8 mode to a website that is using Internet Explorer 8 Standards mode

[Woolley]

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IE9 & FF12 here, no problems on either.

[DeeGee]

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Windows Vista Home Premium - Firefox Mozilla 13 - Avast Free Antivirus running with realtime shield and sandbox active.

No problems, other than the normal "Timed out" and occassional attempt to double post.

Hope this helps.

[mikep]

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Windows 7 home premium, 32 bit. Service pack 1 (I think).

Firefox 12.0 - no issues.
IE9 - got 'Attack' pop up from Norton as soon as I got to the EOS Forum home page - hadn't even navigated to anywhere else, and wasn't logged on.

I'm running Norton 360.

[Trevoreast]

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Would you like me to close the forum until the issue is resolved?

Should you go down that route, would you mind giving us a little notice and post updates on when the forum would be back up ?

Thanks in advance

Trev

[Mazzie]

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Windows 7 home premium
IE9 - no issues
Firefox - no issues.
Norton AV

[MX5]

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So fed up with the trojan attack that I formatted and re-installed everything.
Windows 7, IE8 etc..
All complete and logged on to forum this morning and bang! trojan attacked again.
System fully backed up, so ok (I hope).

If the trojan has tried an attack which the AVS caught and protected against then you should be okay.

BUT (there's always one or more) .... Did you run a rootkit find and destroy utility ... like Norton Power Eraser ? Some of these unwanted things can hide in parts of the disk a simple reformat will not destroy. The folk that write these are generally very bright ...

[ST-EOS]

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I'm running XP using Firefox as my browser the PC has Kaspersky Pure as AV/internet security and I have not seen any indication on this configuration of the problem being described in this thread.

My laptop is running Win7 with the above browser and AV again no indication of an issue.

[Oggie]

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I have just logged on at work. I am using IE7 and Macafee. Macafee did not spot anything, but using the browser history pull down I get HTTP://VOVOVOVOV and current page so it has attacked me. This tends to suggest that the problem is not on my PC at home.

[Stan]

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I have just logged on at work. I am using IE7 and Macafee. Macafee did not spot anything, but using the browser history pull down I get HTTP://VOVOVOVOV and current page so it has attacked me. This tends to suggest that the problem is not on my PC at home.

i have just had the same think happen as soon as i opened up this forum and again as i went to this topic
I am really inclned to avoid this forum until the problem is fixed

Stan

[Robert Scott]

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I have just run checks on the forum using the following sites:

http://www.siteadvisor.com/

http://onlinelinkscan.com/

http://www.avgthreatlabs.com/sitereports

http://www.urlvoid.com/

They all give the forum site a clean bill of health.

However, more in-depth checks are being made and I am looking to see if further security measures can be taken. If this is an option, the site may be offline for a period - details will be given when you try access the forum.

Internet Explorer 7 and 8 appear particularly vulnerable to security issues. I have read that the German, French and Australian Governments have advised against using these browers. Firefox and Chrome are recommended.

[David Stallard]

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As I see it re reading the thread - all those effected are using IE8 . . . . . . would it not be easier to use a better / faster browser and never click on IE again?

Checked all 6 PC's I have in here (all running win7 64bit and chrome) and no problems at all. (non have tappacrap installed either - just in case it matters)

.DAVID.