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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Jan 13, 2014 - 01:32pm PT
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A windoze phenomena?
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 13, 2014 - 03:35pm PT
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New thread directly to CMac coming up. This is still happening to people....
Should we ignore it?
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Jan 29, 2014 - 09:36pm PT
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A few weeks ago, my Norton360 Antivirus was giving me a major warning nearly every-time I logged into ST with my Microsoft Windows Vista &/or Windows 7 computers with Windows Explorer 9.
After avoiding ST for a couple weeks, I crept back for a ST-fix, visited a few more times, and had no warnings until today.
My Windows Vista computer locked up two out of two attempts to log in around 4:30 Pacific, and Norton 360 warned me of a new virus attack, while the screen showed this image.
As most of us know: do not ever click on the OK if you get this warning, as you have just agreed to the evil program owning your computer.
My Windows 7 computer with IE Explorer 11 did not have the virus problem, but just like the previous malware problem, it probably is not present all the time, and I was later able to log in without a problem with the Windows Vista computer.
Kind of a pisser to have your fav blog-site infected with evil.
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jstan
climber
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Jan 29, 2014 - 09:42pm PT
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Kind of a pisser to have your fav blog-site infected with evil.
Obvious. Just get a used............................. for ST.
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happiegrrrl
Trad climber
www.climbaddictdesigns.com
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Jan 29, 2014 - 10:10pm PT
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"...to prevent the system breakage."
I guess that must be techie talk....
I'm not having any problems with ST pages, nor any others. Wonder what is causing some people to have problems seemingly specific to this site.
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McHale's Navy
Trad climber
From Panorama City, CA
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Jan 29, 2014 - 10:13pm PT
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I got that stuff today too! I turned ST off and back on and it went away. It happened going onto the Jardine thread in the early afternoon.
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Jan 29, 2014 - 10:19pm PT
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Kunlun_shan: Thanks for the offer/link of Malware Bytes.
My Norton 360 is blocking the attacks and warning me, but I have not been having any recent problems with Malware attacks elsewhere else on the internet.
There is a problem here on ST. Malware is likely infecting folks that log on here without good antivirus protection.
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kunlun_shan
Mountain climber
SF, CA
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Jan 29, 2014 - 11:12pm PT
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Fritz, is your computer completely up-to-date? Windows, Flash, etc.
Do a scan with this browser plugin and see:
https://browsercheck.qualys.com/
I'd try NOT using Internet Explorer at all, and run the latest version of Firefox or Chrome instead.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de la Playa
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Jan 30, 2014 - 10:41am PT
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I'm seeing this too.
Google "MS Security Essentials" virus removal. There are a number of solutions.
So far I've only seen it on The Flames page. Maybe something is embedded in an image file.
Will update later.
Later.
Just went back to The Flames with no problem. I'm gonna run a scan on my computer.
My scan found nothing on my computer, but I'm still seeing this stuff on the ST, several different threads.
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Jan 30, 2014 - 04:47pm PT
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After checking out the fix Kunlun_shan recommended: Do a scan with this browser plugin and see:
https://browsercheck.qualys.com/
I followed his advice. Browsercheck stated that I needed to update various Adobe programs & Java.
Still getting this warning on my Windows Vista with IE9 computer, everytime I log in to ST, but Norton360 is blocking it and alerting me to evil.
My cheap Notebook with Windows 7 & IE Explorer 11 also got updated, and is not receiving the evil on entry to ST----so far.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de la Playa
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Jan 30, 2014 - 05:23pm PT
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I see problems using I.E.9 and Win 7. They do not show up with Mozilla.
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Anne-Marie Rizzi
climber
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For several days, I kept getting a bogus MS Essentials alert when trying to open the forum. The SuperTopo site loaded ok, but not the forum. (I was fortunately wise enough not to follow the links of the bogus alert.) Installed MalwareBytes and that didn't nab it for a few days. Then MWB finally started blocking it.
Hate to think this site, where I lurk from time to time, is compromised.
Windows 7, IE 11, running McAfee LiveSafe.
AM
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de la Playa
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I did not see this problem anywhere other than the ST forum. As of today it has not been seen on either of the computers I use.
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 11, 2014 - 11:37am PT
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Doesn't CMac have a tech dude that can attack this somehow?
At least two of us have sent him personal notes about this.
I got no response to mine, not even a "hello, we're working on it!"
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Feb 11, 2014 - 02:30pm PT
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Per suggestions on this thread: I updated the Adobe & Java programs on my computers, scanned my Norton 360 protected computers with Malwarebytes (which found nothing of consequence), and avoided using my older laptop with Windows Vista, since I was still getting hit every time I logged into ST or the forum.
My similarly cleaned up Notebook, running windows 7 & a newer Internet Explorer browser was not getting hit when I logged in.
After a week or so, I tried again yesterday with the older computer and haven't had any problems ------yet-----logging in.
Maybe that updating advice paid off. or not?
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