Reported Attack Page (Virus?)

janiejoey

janiejoey

Cathlete
Cathe,

Every time I go to "Open Discussion" my computer warns me in a big red block, and inside the block is this warning: "Reported Attach Page". Makes me afraid that my computer will catch a virus.

Just wanted you know. What is happening?

Janie
 
Run a security sweep on your computers! I just finished my 2 sweeps & had 2 viruses in 3 files after having a red page pop up when I was logging on to this site. My security system has quarintined them & also won't allow updates to my Java saying it can be potentially damaging to my computer! I will be running another sweep later today!
Cathy
 
i haven't had this problem.....will continue to watch out for it tho.....maybe check ur security settings or something......i'm not very computer savvy but that may help:)
 
I'm also getting a report that my Malware is stopping an attack every time I move around from one post to another.
 
Hi girls;)

Yes, I have to say my antivirus goes bizerk warning me a threat has been detected every time I load a page from cathe's website. It will do it even before I sign in as well. I do think with this many people saying something is up maybe its worth Cathe's website tech people to investigate further. I know for me its been going on now for about three or four days or so. Just thought I'd give you guys a heads up and pass along the info.

Hugs;)

Nora
 
Hi girls,

I'll just copy and paste what my SUPERAntiSpyware found as follows:

File threats detected : 3

Adware.Tracking Cookie
C:\Documents and Settings\Nora\Cookies\D8TZS5I9.txt [ /invitemedia.com ]
C:\Documents and Settings\Nora\Cookies\NJIWH3NJ.txt [ /media6degrees.com ]
C:\Documents and Settings\Nora\Cookies\1LADHJHR.txt [ /interclick.com ]


Now my Antivirus blocks virus from loading but I get the blocked warning everytime I load a page to my computer from Cathe's web site. It says its a URL: Mal that it is blocking. I've ran my antivirus and Antispyware stuff and I've shared with yout those results, but I keep getting those darned warning with every page load from Cathe's website and that happens 100% of the time everytime. So, I do hope cathe's website tech people will check into this issue because its not just one computer this is effecting maybe it bears looking further at Cathe's web page. I know Cathe and her team would not put this stinking virus or whatever it is on her page so its something that has been done from outside sources, no doubt. Good luck looking into this I hope something gets done to resolve this.

Nora
 
Yesterday, the 27th, my work PC got a problem after I logged in here; some kind of 2012 update scanner message; the IT guy had to load Malware. My personal PC is has blocked a few attacks.
 
Thanks for all the heads-up and advice everyone.

Is everyone refraining from going onto Open Discussion? Do you get the message on every forum or just there?

Natasha
 
Hi girls and SNM,

I just wanted to let you know that for me at least that whether I login or not and visit open discussion I will always everytime 100% get the URL:MAL warning from my antivirus. I have run bootime antivirus scans and its all clean, my daily antivirus scans are clean. The only exception is everyday for the last three or four days my SUPERAntispyware keeps finding and removing to quarantining the following:

my SUPERAntiSpyware found as follows:

File threats detected : 3

Adware.Tracking Cookie
C:\Documents and Settings\Nora\Cookies\D8TZS5I9.txt [ /invitemedia.com ]
C:\Documents and Settings\Nora\Cookies\NJIWH3NJ.txt [ /media6degrees.com ]
C:\Documents and Settings\Nora\Cookies\1LADHJHR.txt [ /interclick.com ]

And Avast AntiVirus finds and blocks the following every incidence of visiting any and all webpages at Cathe.com or Cathe nation forums any category whether signed in or not it finds and blocks the following
URL:MAL . I just wanted to let you know that it doesn't seem to matter in my case whether I'm signed in or visiting Open discussion or any web page offered by your site.

I hope this gets resolved to everyones satisfaction, good luck with your scans.;)

Nora
 
I've been getting it on my end, too, and just in Open Discussion.

Frustrating. A computer techie I am not so I will have my hubs make sure our antivirus software is fine and have him run a scan. I can see it is blocking the viruses though, so hopefully all will be fine on my end.

What is this world coming to when we find this junk on our favorite cathe forums?!? :p:eek:;)
 
Internet Security virus and two trojans

I had been receiving the warnings too and thought that my Norton was protecting me...wrong! I picked up a virus called Internet Security that disabled a lot of applications including task manager. A full system scan in safe mode found two trojans but not the virus. I rarely keep application shortcuts on my desktop so when one for Internet security appeared I was pretty certain this was the culprit. If you have the same problems, here is how to fix it:

1. Boot your computer into safe mode
a. Reboot your machine and continuously press the F3 button
b. Windows 7 users will reach a screen that says to press F8 for more options. Press F8 and choose the option to start Windows in safe mode
c. Systems with versions older than Win 7 should receive an option to start in safe mode.

2. Run a full system virus scan. This is important to remove the trojans that allowed the virus to enter into your system.

3. Remove the isecurity.exe file that is located in your App data folder. The app data folder is usually a hidden folder so if your explorer settings are set to the default settings you will not be able to see it unless you change the options to view hidden folders and files. Open the following folder C:\Users\<your user name>\AppData\Roaming. On my computer it was C:\Users\Stacie\AppData\Roaming. Remove the isecurity.exe file.

4. Navigate to C:\windows\prefetch and remove the ISECURITY.EXE-1824C86D.pf file.

5. There are two registry keys that should be removed as well. However, I don't recommend messing with the registry unless you really know what you are doing.

I followed the manual steps in this article:
Remove/Get Rid of Internet Security 2012 Virus Removal-How To Guide | How to Virus Removal

There are some links to virus removal tools in the link. I don't recommend clicking on them because more than likely it will take you to site to download something else on your system and you should never do that unless you are positive the source can be trusted (which is why I only did the manual steps).

I hope this help as I am an IT nerd by day and Cathelete by night.

P.S. Don't blame Cathe for the infection....one of two things probably happened. Her site was either attacked / infiltrated or a user (like a forum poster) uploaded a file without knowing it was infected with some nastiness.
 
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