They are getting worse in my opinion. Just experienced another one.
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So when can we expect the downtime and for how long will it last?
The web side of the down time may not even be noticed. The DNS will be changed and the old server will continue to server until it fully drops out of DNS.
The web side of the down time may not even be noticed. The DNS will be changed and the old server will continue to server until it fully drops out of DNS.
Me and my friends were talking about this kind of thing over the weekend. Apparently, some ads carry with them trojans and other undesireables and the host sites rarely do anything about them. Case in point - both me and my friend Jeremy both had our anti-virus warnings pop up when attempting to access Myspace.com. He had Avast and I have AVG; both detected the same problem. He sent an e-mail to the company with both of our findings. It's not limited to just social sites, either - I encountered a trojan alert when I was reading news on Yahoo about the French burqa ban and Jeremy got a warning when he tried to read something on CNN.com. If ads are reeeeeeally necessary for this site, I'd advise that you limit them, if you can, if not, remove them altogether.
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Me and my friends were talking about this kind of thing over the weekend. Apparently, some ads carry with them trojans and other undesireables and the host sites rarely do anything about them. Case in point - both me and my friend Jeremy both had our anti-virus warnings pop up when attempting to access Myspace.com. He had Avast and I have AVG; both detected the same problem. He sent an e-mail to the company with both of our findings. It's not limited to just social sites, either - I encountered a trojan alert when I was reading news on Yahoo about the French burqa ban and Jeremy got a warning when he tried to read something on CNN.com. If ads are reeeeeeally necessary for this site, I'd advise that you limit them, if you can, if not, remove them altogether.
Why, did you receive a virus warning from one of our ads? Basically, companies pay Curse to put the ads on their websites, and we're a Curse fansite... So it's not really up to me, =|. I'd love to have no ads, but something's gotta pay the bills, unfortunately.
I haven't received one.....yet. And that's my fear and maybe something that others fear as well. From what we've noticed, it's ads that usually run some kind of dating or medical thing. I'm not sure if it's limited to those kinds of ads or if companies simply aren't doing a good enough job protecting their ads. I've gone to plenty of gaming and game-related websites and haven't had a problem, to include this one. Still, it's better to be proactive, if at all possible, than reactive.
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Unless something new has developed, Flash is relatively secure because it isn't allowed to put its fingers in your PC unless you give it access. Anti-virus software loves to send out false positives, though. As long as you're running an up to date OS and an up to date browser and don't download anything foreign, you're good.
As long as you're running an up to date OS and an up to date browser and don't download anything foreign, you're good.
Everything on that front is covered, my man. We (Jeremy and myself) also briefly discussed the false findings possibility, but after seeing that the both of us had warnings on the same ad and that we had different anti-viruses when this virus was discovered, we concluded that somehow the virus got attatched to the ad and was, for some odd reason, not detected. If anything else happens, particularly if it occurs on this website, I'll locate this thread (and probably someone from Admin or a Moderator) and post what I find out.
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Trojan injections by ads have occurred in the past (and specifically Myspace), but users infected were running very old versions of IE and Windows. I'd find it to be bad practice if Curse didn't run security checks on all to-be-used ads. If you can corroborate your incursions with antivirus logs, I bet Curse would love to see it.
Trojan injections by ads have occurred in the past (and specifically Myspace), but users infected were running very old versions of IE and Windows. I'd find it to be bad practice if Curse didn't run security checks on all to-be-used ads. If you can corroborate your incursions with antivirus logs, I bet Curse would love to see it.
That was what Jeremy sent to Myspace. The type of trojan detected was this - "JS: Prontexi-AB [Trj]". Something from Google and an advertisment were blocked upon detection.
Also, this sort of thing isn't quite new, as the link I'll post pretty much describes what this trojan does.
No, I haven't received one from Diablofans.....yet. That's what I said to Sixen, my sleep deprived hamster friend. Just look at my post after Sixen's reply to my post on this page.
Perhaps you need some of my cheeseburgers, yes?
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Folks will always come and go, so enjoy them while they're meant to be in your life.
So when can we expect the downtime and for how long will it last?
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The web side of the down time may not even be noticed. The DNS will be changed and the old server will continue to server until it fully drops out of DNS.
Nice to hear that. Thanks
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Now if you get a 4xx error, then it's from your side.
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Why, did you receive a virus warning from one of our ads? Basically, companies pay Curse to put the ads on their websites, and we're a Curse fansite... So it's not really up to me, =|. I'd love to have no ads, but something's gotta pay the bills, unfortunately.
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Everything on that front is covered, my man. We (Jeremy and myself) also briefly discussed the false findings possibility, but after seeing that the both of us had warnings on the same ad and that we had different anti-viruses when this virus was discovered, we concluded that somehow the virus got attatched to the ad and was, for some odd reason, not detected. If anything else happens, particularly if it occurs on this website, I'll locate this thread (and probably someone from Admin or a Moderator) and post what I find out.
Avast ye! Scyberdragon be te thank for the sig, arr!
That was what Jeremy sent to Myspace. The type of trojan detected was this - "JS: Prontexi-AB [Trj]". Something from Google and an advertisment were blocked upon detection.
Also, this sort of thing isn't quite new, as the link I'll post pretty much describes what this trojan does.
http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles
.showArticle&art_aid=124344
If this is news to you guys, I hope it helps.
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Perhaps you need some of my cheeseburgers, yes?
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That sounds good.. I'm waiting for an ad for that now. /waits.
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