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OT: Virus on RealGM?
Posted: Fri Jan 2, 2009 11:44 pm
by MaryvalesFinest
I have a great firewall so it blocked it but when I was on the forum main page about to the click on the Suns forums stuff was starting to automatically download in the bottom of the screen, than my virus protection thing came up and said
"HTTP Malicious Toolkit Variant Activity 2" Via RealGM
Did this happen to anyone else?
Also if you read this and don't have virus protection beware.
Re: OT: Virus on RealGM?
Posted: Fri Jan 2, 2009 11:47 pm
by Miklo
Wow, that's wild...I would be really surprised if RGM had this? Could it be a preexisting virus or malware that you already had? I'm sure you're familiar but those things are mean and they hijack your browser so that no matter what site you go to it starts downloading crap. If this is true we need to notify RGM immediately.
Re: OT: Virus on RealGM?
Posted: Fri Jan 2, 2009 11:55 pm
by MaryvalesFinest
miklo714 wrote:Wow, that's wild...I would be really surprised if RGM had this? Could it be a preexisting virus or malware that you already had? I'm sure you're familiar but those things are mean and they hijack your browser so that no matter what site you go to it starts downloading crap. If this is true we need to notify RGM immediately.
It could be, I'm no comp expert but it happened on the main page of the forums where the teams were listed.
Re: OT: Virus on RealGM?
Posted: Sat Jan 3, 2009 12:02 am
by TASTIC
Mary can you get a screendump and let the board know what virus scanning you're using etc?
Make a thread here:
viewforum.php?f=40&st=0&sk=t&sd=d&start=0
Re: OT: Virus on RealGM?
Posted: Sat Jan 3, 2009 12:54 am
by WTFsunsFTW
Remember, no matter what virus protection you may have on your system, only YOU can prevent viruses from installing on your computer, by not clicking install...
<-- virusfree since '03
Re: OT: Virus on RealGM?
Posted: Sat Jan 3, 2009 12:58 am
by Frank Lee
Re: OT: Virus on RealGM?
Posted: Sat Jan 3, 2009 1:13 am
by NashtyNas
^^ Haha Frank..
Re: OT: Virus on RealGM?
Posted: Sat Jan 3, 2009 1:33 am
by Gorilla Warfare
I have a Mac so I dont think I will have any virus issues

Apple computers have been virus free for 6+ years!
Re: OT: Virus on RealGM?
Posted: Sat Jan 3, 2009 2:02 am
by Shuttlesworth
Get Nashty wrote:I have a Mac so I dont think I will have any virus issues

Apple computers have been virus free for 6+ years!
lol... no
Re: OT: Virus on RealGM?
Posted: Sat Jan 3, 2009 6:43 am
by garrick
actually I've gotten virus warnings in the past from this site too though not so much lately. Could it be some kind of active x virus?
Re: OT: Virus on RealGM?
Posted: Sat Jan 3, 2009 8:33 am
by Never Fear 33 Is Here
Yes I have had virus', they have been called MaryvalesFinest
Re: OT: Virus on RealGM?
Posted: Sat Jan 3, 2009 9:41 am
by TASTIC
Get Nashty wrote:I have a Mac so I dont think I will have any virus issues

Apple computers have been virus free for 6+ years!
That's cos only 6 of you people use them. So chances are you can narrow it down whoever did it

Re: OT: Virus on RealGM?
Posted: Sat Jan 3, 2009 6:26 pm
by TXSun
Never Fear 33 Is Here wrote:Yes I have had virus', they have been called MaryvalesFinest
freaking helarious! But on a more serious note, my anti-virus picked it up.
Re: OT: Virus on RealGM?
Posted: Sat Jan 3, 2009 8:19 pm
by TASTIC
Not just happening to you Mary:
viewtopic.php?f=24&t=865895viewtopic.php?f=10&t=866515&p=18126974#p18126974Looks like it's using IE, are you using that or Mozilla?
I'm using mozilla and have AVG, CCleaner and Ad-Aware and haven't had any issues. I'd suggest having a look at the first thread, there's some helpful stuff in there
Re: OT: Virus on RealGM?
Posted: Sun Jan 4, 2009 1:42 am
by D21
Hi,
I got the same thing one year ago (but did not get it this time) :
Link to the topic.
It seems to depend more of the advertising of the page, than the website itself, and as we don't get all the same advertising, it's hard to find lots of people with the same problem.
Re: OT: Virus on RealGM?
Posted: Sun Jan 4, 2009 5:19 am
by TASTIC
cheers mate^ I believe they're working on it/looking into it now
Re: OT: Virus on RealGM?
Posted: Sun Jan 4, 2009 8:37 am
by jnaz343
Apples have viruses just like Linux and PC's have viruses. In fact Apple had to release more patches this year than MS did for Vista.
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/a ... ports.html
Re: OT: Virus on RealGM?
Posted: Sun Jan 4, 2009 1:08 pm
by Never Fear 33 Is Here
BTW if you are talking about how sometimes an add comes up over the screen that is up, then yes it happens to me too.
And has since before I made the wisecrack, so rest assured it isn't because of that.
