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charlest

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Virus threat from ballreviews.com
« on: May 26, 2012, 07:20:45 PM »
AT 8:15 PM Eastern time, I did a refresh on my unread posts and got a warning from AVG that this was detected: "Exploit JavaScript Obfuscation type (156) was intercepted". I did not see if this was a virus; it just said it was a threat.

A couple of internet searches showed it can caused by an advertisement.
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MI 2 AZ

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Re: Virus threat from ballreviews.com
« Reply #1 on: May 26, 2012, 07:40:52 PM »
I got a warning last night, but I could not narrow it down to which site.  It was in my temporary internet files, but I was on here (not logged in though) at the time.  I had been doing some browsing at other sites prior to that so I could not be certain which site had caused the warning.  I just gave my virus checker the okay to remove it.

I remember it was something to do with Java though.

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Re: Virus threat from ballreviews.com
« Reply #2 on: May 26, 2012, 08:33:55 PM »
FlashBlock is your friend.  You can visit the most reputable sites in the world but if their 3rd party ad providers have been compromised (and they often are the target of hackers) no site is safe.

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Re: Virus threat from ballreviews.com
« Reply #3 on: May 26, 2012, 08:57:53 PM »
Quote from: Urethane Game on May 26, 2012, 08:33:55 PM
FlashBlock is your friend.  You can visit the most reputable sites in the world but if their 3rd party ad providers have been compromised (and they often are the target of hackers) no site is safe.

I have NoScript enabled and FlashBlock enabled on Firefox, my browser.
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Re: Virus threat from ballreviews.com
« Reply #4 on: May 26, 2012, 08:58:20 PM »
Quote from: Urethane Game on May 26, 2012, 08:33:55 PM
FlashBlock is your friend.  You can visit the most reputable sites in the world but if their 3rd party ad providers have been compromised (and they often are the target of hackers) no site is safe.


Doing some quick research on that Flashblock, found that it is for Mozilla type browsers.  There is a way to do it for IE, check here:
http://lifehacker.com/5533694/use-internet-explorers-built+in-flash-block-feature
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Re: Virus threat from ballreviews.com
« Reply #5 on: May 27, 2012, 10:38:04 AM »
MI2AZ, that did work, but is there any way to stop the pop up asking if you want to run flash every time you load (just about) every page every site?
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Re: Virus threat from ballreviews.com
« Reply #6 on: May 27, 2012, 10:57:42 AM »
Yesterday my Avast AV stopped me from coming to BR.  I got a HTML-Script-Inf<gzip>.  I see it's fixed now.  I had this happen on a golf related site for fitters and they fixed it by going to a dedicated IP. 
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Re: Virus threat from ballreviews.com
« Reply #7 on: May 27, 2012, 01:34:16 PM »
Quote from: Strider on May 27, 2012, 10:38:04 AM
MI2AZ, that did work, but is there any way to stop the pop up asking if you want to run flash every time you load (just about) every page every site?

Strider, I just found that yesterday and tried it myself.  I agree the popup message is annoying but I haven't found a way to keep it from appearing yet.  Only other option is to switch to Firefox or Chrome and use the other programs mentioned above by Charlest.

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Re: Virus threat from ballreviews.com
« Reply #8 on: May 27, 2012, 03:40:40 PM »
I haven't looked at in a few generations, but I never cared for Firefox.  I like Chrome, but really hate that there's no recently visited url drop down arrow in the main box.  There's about 8 sites I look at constantly and it's clunky to do in Chrome.  I added the "speed dial" plug in which is nice, but it's not the same.
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Re: Virus threat from ballreviews.com
« Reply #9 on: May 27, 2012, 04:31:02 PM »
I use Firefox and have no issues at all.

Plus Firefox is so much faster then the big E.

And I don't care to much for Google Chrome
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Re: Virus threat from ballreviews.com
« Reply #10 on: May 28, 2012, 06:57:32 AM »
I have been getting lately as well.

I always wondered...

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Re: Virus threat from ballreviews.com
« Reply #11 on: May 28, 2012, 07:45:31 AM »
I have 3rd party ad blocking and I received no notice of malware or viruses. And I use IE. Ad blocking is a great thing.

I hope everybody has been good and not using a work computer. Tough to explain that one.
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Re: Virus threat from ballreviews.com
« Reply #12 on: May 28, 2012, 07:51:49 AM »
also a good security package should offer the option to block on your machine. if one doesn't...




Quote from: MI 2 AZ on May 26, 2012, 08:58:20 PM
Quote from: Urethane Game on May 26, 2012, 08:33:55 PM
FlashBlock is your friend.  You can visit the most reputable sites in the world but if their 3rd party ad providers have been compromised (and they often are the target of hackers) no site is safe.


Doing some quick research on that Flashblock, found that it is for Mozilla type browsers.  There is a way to do it for IE, check here:
http://lifehacker.com/5533694/use-internet-explorers-built+in-flash-block-feature

« Last Edit: May 28, 2012, 07:53:33 AM by Spider Man »
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Re: Virus threat from ballreviews.com
« Reply #13 on: May 28, 2012, 08:00:36 AM »
Is a sight called lifehacker where I want to be going??

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Re: Virus threat from ballreviews.com
« Reply #14 on: May 28, 2012, 08:03:10 AM »
LL, some hackers do see the light - after being caught! That said I didn't click on the site.
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