I got a nasty fake virus scanner malware today right after I logged into BladeForums, too. My father also did on his computer when he logged in. It isn't our network because my mom's two computers were on the network, too, and the only common denominator seemed to be this site. I don't have anti-virus on my computer other than Malware Bytes, and since the free version isn't an ACTIVE security (I have to manually run the scan), the virus shut my computer down before I could scan it off.
I then just rebooted my laptop to factory settings, and everything was fine again until the same virus attacked right after I logged onto BF about an hour ago... It is blocking my programs and I can't access my computer hard drive, but my internet and firefox is still working. I think I'll just wait until tomorrow to reboot to factory settings again since I haven't loaded anything back onto my hard drive yet.
Is this a common problem? Do you think it is something here that is being worked on? I love this site and the moderators (the ones I've noticed), so what's goin on? Maybe I'm too quick to point fingers? I did just get home from school for Christmas break, but my dad got the virus first early Saturday morning, when my laptop hadn't even been used at my house for five months (I just got back on Friday).