OT: Virus on RealGM?

MaryvalesFinest · Post #1 » by **MaryvalesFinest** » Fri Jan 2, 2009 11:44 pm

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.

Post #2 » by **Miklo** » Fri Jan 2, 2009 11:47 pm

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.

MaryvalesFinest · Post #3 » by **MaryvalesFinest** » Fri Jan 2, 2009 11:55 pm

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.

Post #4 » by **TASTIC** » Sat Jan 3, 2009 12:02 am

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

WTFsunsFTW · Post #5 » by **WTFsunsFTW** » Sat Jan 3, 2009 12:54 am

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

Frank Lee · Post #6 » by **Frank Lee** » Sat Jan 3, 2009 12:58 am

NashtyNas · Post #7 » by **NashtyNas** » Sat Jan 3, 2009 1:13 am

^^ Haha Frank..

Gorilla Warfare · Post #8 » by **Gorilla Warfare** » Sat Jan 3, 2009 1:33 am

I have a Mac so I dont think I will have any virus issues

Apple computers have been virus free for 6+ years!

Shuttlesworth · Post #9 » by **Shuttlesworth** » Sat Jan 3, 2009 2:02 am

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

garrick · Post #10 » by **garrick** » Sat Jan 3, 2009 6:43 am

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?

Never Fear 33 Is Here · Post #11 » by **Never Fear 33 Is Here** » Sat Jan 3, 2009 8:33 am

Yes I have had virus', they have been called MaryvalesFinest

Post #12 » by **TASTIC** » Sat Jan 3, 2009 9:41 am

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

TXSun · Post #13 » by **TXSun** » Sat Jan 3, 2009 6:26 pm

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.

Post #14 » by **TASTIC** » Sat Jan 3, 2009 8:19 pm

Not just happening to you Mary:
viewtopic.php?f=24&t=865895

viewtopic.php?f=10&t=866515&p=18126974#p18126974

Looks 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

D21 · Post #15 » by **D21** » Sun Jan 4, 2009 1:42 am

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.

Post #16 » by **TASTIC** » Sun Jan 4, 2009 5:19 am

cheers mate^ I believe they're working on it/looking into it now

jnaz343 · Post #17 » by **jnaz343** » Sun Jan 4, 2009 8:37 am

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

Never Fear 33 Is Here · Post #18 » by **Never Fear 33 Is Here** » Sun Jan 4, 2009 1:08 pm

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. :lol: