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Virus Warning from Avast

by enrique
Sun, Jul 27, 2014 22:46
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I use Avast antivirus and I got these messages when I visited the Forum pages, specifically the Tour de France Stage 21 thread just a few moments ago.

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wellcoordinated | 9 years ago
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I use a Mac - no problem here!! 24

Sorry I'll get my coat.

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enrique | 9 years ago
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More details... 45

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enrique | 9 years ago
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I'm seeing these today when I visit the Forum pages... 45

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steviewevie | 10 years ago
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I use Avast and I'm not seeing any problem.

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dave atkinson | 10 years ago
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anyone still seeing these?

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charlie_elise | 10 years ago
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I've been getting 'You've just won an iPad' messages recently when viewing posts using Chrome on my Android. I dislike these pop ups, but assumed if I close the box, everything will be ok. Related?

Also, I've still not received my iPad. 39

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d_jp | 10 years ago
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If you get any pop ups saying "click here to remove a virus" (like that shown by Lbowron) - don't do it! Close your browser (or restart your device if necessary) and it would probably be worth running an Anti-Virus (AV) scan afterwards (including on phones). There are some AV products that will scan iOS (Apple) and Android devices, some AV products/companies to look at would be (that I am aware of, but have not necessarily used - there are others):

AVG
Kaspersky
BitDefender
Sophos
McAfee
Norton
Avast
ClamAV
Panda

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Joelsim replied to d_jp | 10 years ago
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d_jp wrote:

If you get any pop ups saying "click here to remove a virus" (like that shown by Lbowron) - don't do it! Close your browser (or restart your device if necessary) and it would probably be worth running an Anti-Virus (AV) scan afterwards (including on phones). There are some AV products that will scan iOS (Apple) and Android devices, some AV products/companies to look at would be (that I am aware of, but have not necessarily used - there are others):

AVG
Kaspersky
BitDefender
Sophos
McAfee
Norton
Avast
ClamAV
Panda

Never heard of any of those riders.

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dave atkinson | 10 years ago
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looks like it is a problem with our ad serving guys, they tell me they were hit by a malware attack. I'll keep you posted on what i know.

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Lbowron | 10 years ago
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Had this pop up three times this morning

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chiv30 | 10 years ago
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Was having the same problem on mobile

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STEVESPRO 79 | 10 years ago
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Same here with the Java goings on....

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dave atkinson | 10 years ago
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Yup, i am doing

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Joelsim | 10 years ago
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Right, it's just happened another 4 times. It doesn't happen on any other site.

Can someone have a look at this please?

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Joelsim | 10 years ago
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And again, even though I just try to close the boxes!

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Joelsim | 10 years ago
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Right, that's twice in the last 10 minutes that this forum has started downloading a Java update from Oracle without me asking for it, sending a set-up.exe file to my downloads.

This appears to be very dodgy.

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Joelsim | 10 years ago
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I've just had a dodgy Java download start whilst browsing this forum. Now running a scan.

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truffy | 10 years ago
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Have you tried using a different AV scanner?

Seriously, this sound like some of the stuff that comes up when the freeware's trying to get you to pony up to the paid-for version.

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Joelsim | 10 years ago
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System scan coming up. This is exactly teh same as I got about a month ago.

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enrique | 10 years ago
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Yet another, slightly different, warning from the Tour of Poland Stage 2 thread... 39 And the forum is still requiring 'Subjects' and offering to post only through the 'Preview' process....

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Twybaydos | 10 years ago
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I had a link offer to update my Flash off this site today when I logged out and logged back in again

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enrique | 10 years ago
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Today I got this warning while viewing the Poland Stage 2 thread...

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Him Up North | 10 years ago
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Get an ad blocker for your browser (but don't tell the crew who run this site... 3 )

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enrique replied to Him Up North | 10 years ago
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Him Up North wrote:

Get an ad blocker for your browser...

What works for you?... 39

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Him Up North replied to enrique | 10 years ago
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enrique wrote:
Him Up North wrote:

Get an ad blocker for your browser...

What works for you?... 39

For IE I use Ad Block Plus. There's a better one for Chrome and Safari browsers simply called AdBlock (not related to ABP).

And download Malwarebytes to scan your computer if you haven't done so already.

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enrique replied to Him Up North | 10 years ago
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Him Up North wrote:

... use Ad Block Plus.... download Malwarebytes to scan your computer...

Very happy with both (!) Thanks! 1

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Joelsim | 10 years ago
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I got a virus warning the other day from this forum too. Using Chrome. It was picked up by McAfee.

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d_jp | 10 years ago
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I reckon that the most likely cause is that there was a link inside one of the adverts from (one of?) the firms supplying advertising to road.cc (it's happened on various websites previously, including larger ones than road.cc). This link would have been pointing to the location of the malware, which is likely why most people did not see it as it will probably only come up once in a while, and also the firm may now have spotted the issue and had the offending link removed.

Looks like Avast is doing it's job for you! 1

Hope that helps!

PS, had a quick look and from what I can tell about this malware it's not specific to IE (but it is to Windows).

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enrique replied to d_jp | 10 years ago
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d_jp wrote:

... had a quick look and from what I can tell about this malware it's not specific to IE (but it is to Windows).

That's interesting... how did you find out?... 39

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livestrongnick | 10 years ago
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I use Mozilla Firefox with AVG, no issues for me 103

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