I'm sorry, but these forums seem to have a backdoor hack in them...

[Mazhulsage]

For the past 2 weeks nearly I've been having crap just pop up on me.

I could be in the middle of a sentence on here, or just opening a couple links from the front page... I seem to usually get the same one. "Norton Anti-Virus 2010" and it "Attempts to download itself and fix my computer."... When I try to close it, what happens? Something along the lines of "Norton Anti-Virus 2010 is trying to fix your computer, If you would like it to install on your computer and fix all of your viruses, press "OK"" and OK is the only button available... Lol.

Also, when it first started happening, I believe the same thing happened... but... After I closed it about 20 pages popped up and I had to CTRL+ALT+DEL then completely shut off Explorer and turn it back on...

Doubt this is MY problem as it has happened on THREE different computers.

[yad]

it hapeend to me but after some time (a week) it stoped

[Ayalfishey]

It dosint happen to me O.o


and iv been logging on worldofwar from sevral computers :/

[jschild]

Same here, mulitple computers and no pop ups at all.

[Eliandor]

For the past 2 weeks nearly I've been having crap just pop up on me.

I could be in the middle of a sentence on here, or just opening a couple links from the front page... I seem to usually get the same one. "Norton Anti-Virus 2010" and it "Attempts to download itself and fix my computer."... When I try to close it, what happens? Something along the lines of "Norton Anti-Virus 2010 is trying to fix your computer, If you would like it to install on your computer and fix all of your viruses, press "OK"" and OK is the only button available... Lol.

Also, when it first started happening, I believe the same thing happened... but... After I closed it about 20 pages popped up and I had to CTRL+ALT+DEL then completely shut off Explorer and turn it back on...

Doubt this is MY problem as it has happened on THREE different computers.

As this site only uses image and banner advertising and not pop ups, and the various Antivirus <Year> infections create their own pop ups, I would say the problem is yours. Since you probably have the same habits on all three computers, all three are infected. Grab a spyware search/removal tool. (The free anti-virus products are good against virus/worm infections but not spyware). Spybot from safer-networking.org is what I use for removing this kinda thing from customers.

[Khab]

First clean one or all machines. Once you're 100% sure they are cleaned, install the latest firefox with the latest NoScript and Ad Blocker and see if your problems go away.

[mesonm]

For the past 2 weeks nearly I've been having crap just pop up on me.

I could be in the middle of a sentence on here, or just opening a couple links from the front page... I seem to usually get the same one. "Norton Anti-Virus 2010" and it "Attempts to download itself and fix my computer."... When I try to close it, what happens? Something along the lines of "Norton Anti-Virus 2010 is trying to fix your computer, If you would like it to install on your computer and fix all of your viruses, press "OK"" and OK is the only button available... Lol.

Also, when it first started happening, I believe the same thing happened... but... After I closed it about 20 pages popped up and I had to CTRL+ALT+DEL then completely shut off Explorer and turn it back on...

Doubt this is MY problem as it has happened on THREE different computers.

You say is has happened for two weeks, but not that you've tried corrective measures, whether you have antivirus software, whether it comes up with a warning, etc.

I have several comps which I use to visit this site, and NEVER have had a virus or trojan from here on any of them. No warnings, except from the false google message, ever.


Please let us know what kind of detection and removal efforts you are taking, and what you normally use for virus, spyware, trojan detection and removal.

good luck!

[Kalos]

I have been checking the page loads recently, over and over, yet I'm not getting any of the adverts you mention, either on FF or IE. I would seriously look a local level infection as has been suggested, I've not been hearing any other users reporting anything similar.

[Valas Azuviir]

I have been checking the page loads recently, over and over, yet I'm not getting any of the adverts you mention, either on FF or IE. I would seriously look a local level infection as has been suggested, I've not been hearing any other users reporting anything similar.

It might be connected to the issue that me and Thortok2000 reported on in the forum support section.

Running on the latest version of FF, and have Avast anti virus installed (again the latest version). Spybot also came up clean. *shrugs*

And it's just the main page which gives me this report.

[Lothaer]

i suggest getting AVG and Spybot both programs are free and very good :D

[Mazhulsage]

Considering one was a friend's computer who I know for a fact not only built the computer from the ground up, along with having all the latest and greatest on anti-hacking/etc. on his brand spanking new self-built comp, but he also does NOT have any problems on his computer, as he runs spybot (along with other programs) on start up, and before he shuts it off, and sometimes just while he's surfing or whatever.

Second one was my father in-laws... Again, he's extremely crazy about his computer and will run stuff CONSTANTLY to make sure there's nothing wrong.

Ours is a computer with pretty much the same features as the father in-law in terms of security, but we also have spybot etc.

None of us download anything illegal etc.
None of us downloaded a newer version of Norton even within the past few months, when this just started happening less than a month ago.
I've checked Spybot, I've checked Norton, I've run complete system scans on every type of anti-spyware/anti-hacking/anti-virus I have. 0 Problems.

This can't be just me, as it's happened on three different computers and why the hell would "Norton 2010" pop up and "try to fix my computer" in the first place, in a webpage, ONLY on this site? Never ever ever had the problem anywhere else, even after hours of screwing around on other pages, but it usually will take 30 minutes tops here.

Edit: Just an added "Protection" I have is CCleaner which I run pretty much every time I exit the internet pages for more than 5 minutes, which I also run (Usually) right before I open any webpages as well. Sure, not an anti-hack program, but certainly helps against minor threats.

[jschild]

Norton...huh......Sorry, if they were super crazy about security, I know for a fact they would not be running that worthless bloatware.

CCleaner is not protection of any kind.

If you all have Norton's and it all pops up, there is probably some funky issue with Norton's. It is pretty much useless software as freeware will not only protect your computer better, it won't make it run slower as Norton's actually will.

[Lothaer]

yeah nortons is a load of crap i suggest removing it from your computer and getting a freeware program.

[Twoflower]

This can't be just me, as it's happened on three different computers and why the hell would "Norton 2010" pop up and "try to fix my computer" in the first place, in a webpage, ONLY on this site? Never ever ever had the problem anywhere else, even after hours of screwing around on other pages, but it usually will take 30 minutes tops here.

I had this Norton 2010 thing aswell. I ran antivir and spybot and the whole yadda yadda, didnt help at all. Somehow, i got infected. It is a local level infection.

Only solution for me was to reinstall Windows. Do it and you will see that you dont have these popups any more, not even from this site :)

PS : being a security nut does not help in some cases. Just not. I had 1.5 years with my new PC till i got infected, but it still happened.

[Mazhulsage]

How is it that it ONLY happens on this site then? How exactly is that a "local problem" if it ONLY happens here? That makes ZERO sense IMO. As I said, I can be surfing for hours other places, I come here for a few minutes and open a few pages, I'll most likely get it. Not true in other cases.

[mesonm]

How is it that it ONLY happens on this site then? How exactly is that a "local problem" if it ONLY happens here? That makes ZERO sense IMO. As I said, I can be surfing for hours other places, I come here for a few minutes and open a few pages, I'll most likely get it. Not true in other cases.

Try your argument turned around....

How can it be only you, if the site is infected?

[Gorny]

I've been here since Rpg.forums.net and never had a problem...except for tthe occasional full or semi full page ad.

I used to run Norton but ditched it for Mcaffee and also run Spybot S&D and Lavasoft's Adware.

i run those atleast once a week and also make sure my stuff's current.



No problems i can say.

[Glurin]

Only thing I've noticed lately was Firefox saying these forums are a reported attack site. Nothing beyond that. No pop ups or anything. The info on it says the last detection was something like one out of some 250 pages back at the first part of January.

I'd still suspect it to be a local infection first though. Especially given the lack of reports of an infection. If every scan is coming up clean, see what you can find on this particular variant. Maybe poke around your system a little to see if some of the files that shouldn't be there normally are present. Check your list of processes in the task manager as well and find out what you can about anything unfamiliar or suspicious in there. Bear in mind that a system with a fresh install can have around forty or fifty processes running. And a virus can call itself anything it wants, including legitimate processes.

If nothing else, this will get you a somewhat better understanding of your system.


I had this Norton 2010 thing aswell. I ran antivir and spybot and the whole yadda yadda, didnt help at all. Somehow, i got infected. It is a local level infection.

Only solution for me was to reinstall Windows. Do it and you will see that you dont have these popups any more, not even from this site :)

PS : being a security nut does not help in some cases. Just not. I had 1.5 years with my new PC till i got infected, but it still happened.

I've had to deal with the antivirus (year) thing on several occasions as well. They spread very easily and can be a real pain in the ass to get rid of if you don't want to (or can't) just reinstall everything. At least I haven't had to deal with it on any of my own computers yet, knock on wood.

Part of the problem I think is that this particular virus gets changed so rapidly that the real antivirus writers are more or less playing a constant game of catchup with it. You could have five or six antivirus programs all come up with clean scans, yet still be infected.

On the subject of programs to use, one I don't think has been mentioned yet is Nod32. It's a relatively new one, but seems to be making a positive impact thus far.

[Twoflower]

i baught Acronis boot now. If i get infected again, it takes me 15 minutes and i am back on track :D

[surodat]

I would bet that it's Norton itself that is the problem. Perhaps it knows that the Google "reported attack" happened on this page and is now trying to stop you from coming here.

edit: Nope.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090103202038AAWBr43

You brought this on yourself, and it just chooses to manifest when you come here - but I still bet that it's linked the the "reported attack" bit.