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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jan 3, 2014 - 02:05pm PT
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Every time I click on SuperT lately, I get a Malware alert?
WTF?
Anyone else experiencing anything like this?
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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I got it once yesterday but after closing the window when I re-opened it
Kaspersky was happy, or as happy as he ever is.
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happiegrrrl
Trad climber
www.climbaddictdesigns.com
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No, haven't had any.
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TrundleBum
Trad climber
Las Vegas
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Ditch Window$...
ditch attributing a 1/3 of your resources to protection.
Surfing the net on Window$ is like going to the 'Chicken Ranch' with out a rain coat !
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Very helpful answers but Survival isn't looking for one-liners.
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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I'm getting them too, Bruce.
(I think my computer got a virus early this
week and haven't been able to get rid of it yet).
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Well, it doesn't appear to be unfounded or a coincidence.
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 3, 2014 - 03:18pm PT
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I'm using Mozilla Firefox, with Avast security. It has always performed well for a freebee. It was actually recommended by a tech guy.
I've been happy with Firefox and Avast both.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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I think the risk is pretty low that it's a legitimate problem.
I agree. I also think I've narrowed the suspected ads down to hair transplants and Depends.
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 3, 2014 - 03:38pm PT
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Thanks guys. It's def. not happening every time now. Only once today.
Weird.
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nature
climber
Boulder, CO
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There are a couple of possibilities. I've been dealing with some Malware warnings at work recently. Some of the sites we developed were listed by google as hacked. We had to do a fair amount of clean up.
We use ad server software called OpenX. It was vulnerable to sql injection. The Taco runs their Ads through DFP (aka doubleclick). I doubt that's infected.
I suppose it's odd that it only happens sometimes. Does it happen on the home page or just certain threads?
When I was dealing with Malware on my sites I found that Chrome would report the Malware but Safari, Firefox, Opera would not.
I guess that's a long winded way of saying I have no f'ing clue.
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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I'm using Mozilla Firefox, with Avast security. It has always performed well for a freebee. It was actually recommended by a tech guy.
I've been happy with Firefox and Avast both.
^^exactly my set-up and I've received no warnings.
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nature
climber
Boulder, CO
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plus if you run FF you have the added ability of being able to grease people ;)
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Survival: OK! I was in Boise today on business and during my 1:30PM (Mountain-Time) Lunch, I connected to the ST forum on my Verizon Internet connection (secured).
I just had time to note your thread title before my Norton 360 antivirus program kicked me off the site.
ST login has been OK since then.
My seldom used notebook has Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 9, and was up to date on antivirus.
I had not been looking at anything evil online, for many months with the notebook.
Here is what Norton 360 had to say about the nature of the evil. I have erased my own computer information from the screenshot (duh).
Does this help?
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MisterE
climber
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I am running FF and Avast on Windows as well, and I also got a single warning.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de La Playa
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using WIN/7 and Commodo, I got some unusual DNS errors yesterday. They were not on SuperT, but they went away today. No ST probs.
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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bump for the morning computer problem-solver crowd.
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Eric Beck
Sport climber
Bishop, California
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Receiving warning using avast and IE.
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Thanks Dave: I just got hit with another alert as soon as I clicked on the forum front page.
Different computer today, running Windows Vista, IE9, and Norton 360 anti-evil program.
Here's today's screenshot with my personal info erased.
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Roger Brown
climber
Oceano, California
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Yea,
I keep getting it also. Just on Supertopo, I think. My account is so old it is AOL, like my e-mail. Maybe I got it from an e-mail. Supertopo and my e-mail are the only AOL things I have. I usually check e-mail first but today I did Supertopo first. No big deal, Norton seems to have things under control. I'm not too computer smart:-)
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