I got it twice at home and once at work. I closed out of it, and ran webroot on my home PC. Haven't had any issues so far. IT at work was pissed. I played stupid.

 

So I ran Malwarebytes and it did remove and quarantine a Fake Alert Trojan.

 

I spent 4 days in safe mode trying to get rid of that one! Have fun.

 

Got it on my work computer. Ran Malwarebytes and after scanning, I was able to remove it in about 45 min!

 

really????????? no official info? no apology? nothing?

 

So this is why I got the "your computer has been infected" message.

 

They're trying to look for the malicious code but can't find anything. They haven't been able to duplicate it yet.

I was told that it could "be possible that perhaps someone has some sort of an image link in their signature or avatar that is attempting to execute some code."

 

^^Then wouldn't it be prudent to post a "warning" thread in a more visited and visible area to warn people they can't find it and this site indeed is passing malicious code?

It's not a signature....its a seemingly random occurrence and you can track it by some posts as people posted when they got it or flagged the thread/post.

It kind of seems like this is no big deal to them and they aren't really putting too much time into it...it was first reported on 2/26.....

If something doesn't happen soon I will be canceling my account and Im sure many members won't be back (most of them won't be able to get it off their pc).

 

of course that's possible. ANYTHING is possible. But, people have reported the exploit by simply coming to check PMs. If I were responsible for this site and I even remotely suspected avatars and/or signatures, I would, ummmm, turn them off!!! But I suspect they dont really think it's a single users avatar or sig.

 

if you really like scripts...flash... but at the same time you are really concerned about this... how about setting the settings to prompt anytime a website request one of this things to run....
I have set most of those setting to prompt see if i can track it when something weird tries to "play/self-install".....

 

I've seen it triggered just browsing forum to sub forum, with no posting or sigs involved. They are not looking hard enough. : P

 

So he was pushed out of his position on a forum that he contributed a lot to and decided to take all his information with him?

Sounds about right to me.

 

Thanks guys. I need to educate myself more on configuring my browser so this doesn't keep happening.

 

Spybot took care of it me. My PC at work got hit by this on Monday.

 

John need me to fix his laptop again?

 

I too blame everything on him.

 

Maybe I got it from here - it was a nightmare to remove all that. I had something else though b/c it would let me install malwarebytes, my search was always redirected on yahoo/google. Nasty Nasty - had to remove all extensions and redo before it would allow any anti-virus to be run. =\

 

And here I was thinking it was all the **** sites I was visiting. A good tip from the guy who said to block all flash and all advertisements... one of them must be able to exploit some kind of vulnerability in FireFox to get on the PC. One thing that would be interesting is if Chrome-only users have experienced the virus or not...

Can any Chrome-only users chime in?

 

another helpful tip, people should be keeping their adobe readers, java, flash players etc fully up to date. flash player and reader are getting pounded by all sorts of nasty things lately.

 

Maybe they too are using Firefox + ABP.

On a serious note, I almost wanna install virtual pc and maybe run a screen capture app that way can check out frame by frame to see about when/where it happens.