Virus Issue on the Benchmade forum.

jkarp_53 · Jan 24, 2016

Please do (everyone) a favor and scan your computers. I've been picking up repeat infections (or attempted) while reading the postings. I use Avast and am on a clean PC. I suspect one or more of us is infected and I have no idea where the source of it is coming from.

I can delete this posting once this problem is known...and Charlie, if this is something you on Blade management can address that would be welcome too.

Regards to all.

Joe

jpm2 · Jan 24, 2016

I haven't had any attempted infections, because I block all the ad's ?...

marthinus · Jan 25, 2016

Joe. I only pick it up when visiting the G10 Griptilian thread on a certain page. The notification seems to be related to a specific image hosting site, ie, the virus is part of the image. The image hosting site is peoplehouse.org/wp-content bla bla bla (not going to give the full description here)

jkarp_53 · Jan 25, 2016

Thanks Marthinus, I am sure our Mod, Charlie, can do something with this. I've picked up 21 attempts to infect my PC, all unsuccessful.

d0nut · Jan 25, 2016

marthinus said:
Joe. I only pick it up when visiting the G10 Griptilian thread on a certain page. The notification seems to be related to a specific image hosting site, ie, the virus is part of the image. The image hosting site is peoplehouse.org/wp-content bla bla bla (not going to give the full description here)

Can you post what thread and page # so we don't go there at least?

jpm2 · Jan 25, 2016

d0nut said:
Can you post what thread and page # so we don't go there at least?

It's not just in this subforum or a particular thread.
There quite a few embedded pictures, videos, and ad's that my software block.
It's like that in every forum on the net that allows 3rd party content.

marthinus · Jan 26, 2016

d0nut said:
Can you post what thread and page # so we don't go there at least?

Page 11, but I believe the below is true. I have been getting similar notifications on parts of the forum and other forums.

jpm2 said:
It's not just in this subforum or a particular thread.
There quite a few embedded pictures, videos, and ad's that my software block.
It's like that in every forum on the net that allows 3rd party content.

d0nut · Jan 26, 2016

Dang, I must've missed that thread then. I haven't opened it and won't now.

No other problems browsing the other threads on work or home PC.

McAfee at work, AVG at home with no issue.

GermanyChris · Jan 27, 2016

Linux...no issues

RevDevil · Jan 28, 2016

jkarp_53 said:
Thanks Marthinus, I am sure our Mod, Charlie, can do something with this. I've picked up 21 attempts to infect my PC, all unsuccessful.

PM me a link and I will review and kill the offending post. If something is embedded, it needs to be removed asap.
Thanks

GermanyChris said:
Linux...no issues

Terrific for you, but how exactly is this helpful to the rest of the members that use Windows or Mac?

jpm2 · Jan 28, 2016

GermanyChris said:
Linux...no issues

RevDevil said:
Terrific for you, but how exactly is this helpful to the rest of the members that use Windows or Mac?

Haha, yeah.
I use windows and have no problems, it has built in software that blocks this stuff, called tracking protection and activeX filtering. Since I started using that years ago (starting with XP), my anti-virus/adware rarely/never detects anything.

Tried Linux a few times over the years, it's good for specific tasks, but inconvenient for the casual user.