What about Safari? I use it, but no notifications or ANYTHING malicious detected in AVG.

I agree. But the fact you're still here tells me you aren't afraid of the malware. So why keep complaining about it?

I've already said the YYG admins are notified. It's Sunday night and they're probably sleeping... so just relax. There's no reason anybody will be hurt if they use common sense and good browsing practice. Just let the YYG Admins deal with it.

It is not up to us to switch browsers. It is Yo-yo games job find out why somebody reported yo-yo games as being a malicious and fix the matter and not leave it up to teenage Mods.

Sorry KCLC. I know you are here and have to keep order and I know it is Sunday.

Very few of the mods here are teenagers, and I am more than sure that, given the proper board / site privileges, any member of the staff could fix the problem. I think it's time for people who have no idea what they are talking about to stop posting and let things get fixed before any more idiotic rumors get started here.

My spybot S&D won't work now. It had a bunch of messages come up and I just said deny change to them all. But now it won't even come up or open. Anyone know why? It was only after this whole thing happened and I'm not exagerataing.

Please link me to ANY SINGLE POST where one of us 'incompetent' moderators told someone to switch browsers. The only advice I gave was that anyone worried about the situation should give it a few days and return later. I wouldn't suggest any particular browser, as this is the third browser I myself had to use here today. Let me just say that it is rather annoying when annoying warning pages break certain moderation tools.

But anyway...

Blaming YYG for an attack that could have happened at ANY popular forum is idiotic.
Blaming us moderators who are trying to look after the forum despite any possible risk to ourselves, or our accounts, for not using tools we do not have, is idiotic.

Referring to the mostly adult, and unpaid staff, many of which have careers, families, and/or children as 'teenage Mods', is not only idiotic, but plain rude.

Ha-ha!

Well I will put it this way. When I got the warning I clicked to see why it came up and MR know it all; it said that the site was listed to be a malicious site and If I was the web master of the site and gave instructions on how to find out why it was marked as a malicious site. I posted here so somebody could see what it said but as usual it got deleted. For once in the life of this forum yo-yo games need to take action and stop leaving it up to incompetent mods. either teens or not. I can see you know nothing else you would know the webmaster of the forum has to be the one that fixes the problem and it has nothing to do with the forum setting it has something to do with somebody reporting yo-yo games as a malicious site.

I wasn't saying Mods said that if people even Mods to take time and read they can see when people told people to switch browsers

Never mind I am not wasting time trying to explain this. read just like I did.

The "webmaster?" Wow. You really have no idea what you're talking about. At all. Just stop, please, before any of your stupid remarks actually makes someone else dumber for having read them.

This isn't a problem that can be fixed by the moderating staff of the forum. So far as I know, the forum needs an update applied to it, and to my knowledge, only an administrator can do that. We are not incompetent. We all know what the problem is, and we're just waiting for the right people to come online so we can fix it. If any of us had the ability, this problem would be fixed by now. Believe it.

Now, I am going to request again that you desist in posting any more rude, idiotic, and completely wrong comments here. If I see another, it's getting deleted and you're getting your warn level increased. If I see you talking about incompetent mods here again, I'm putting you on mod preview and increasing your warn level. This is completely disrespectful, and we shouldn't have to deal with this kind of asinine behavior on top of everything else.

I take the time to read, what member's take the time to write in proper English. Call me incompetent, but I am not calling up babelfish to attempt to decipher your explanation. Yes, we saw the suggestions about switching browsers that were made. We also told members to stop making those suggestions. Then you in turn blame us for those suggestions.

Another thing that I find ironic. All this started because a post of yours was deleted, correct? Well, I'd suggest using the edit button unless you want it to happen more frequently.

Again and listen this time. A warning came up and said the site has been listed as a malicious site. It gave three option.

Ignore the warning.

Stop it now

why was this site blocked

I clicked why was this site blocked

A page came up with this on it

Safe Browsing
Diagnostic page for gmc.yoyogames.com/

What is the current listing status for gmc.yoyogames.com/?

Site is listed as suspicious - visiting this web site may harm your computer.

Part of this site was listed for suspicious activity 1 time(s) over the past 90 days.

What happened when Google visited this site?

Of the 8 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 1 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 09/07/2008, and the last time suspicious content was found on this site was on 09/07/2008.

Malicious software includes 1 scripting exploit(s), 1 trojan(s). Successful infection resulted in an average of 39 new processes on the target machine.

Malicious software is hosted on 4 domain(s), including augreat.mine.nu, traffic-exchange.biz, rivatos.net.

2 domain(s) appear to be functioning as intermediaries for distributing malware to visitors of this site, including traffic-exchange.biz, rivatos.net.

Has this site acted as an intermediary resulting in further distribution of malware?

Over the past 90 days, gmc.yoyogames.com/ did not appear to function as an intermediary for the infection of any sites.

Has this site hosted malware?

No, this site has not hosted malicious software over the past 90 days.

How did this happen?

In some cases, third parties can add malicious code to legitimate sites, which would cause us to show the warning message.

Next steps:

* Return to the previous page.
* If you are the owner of this web site, you can request a review of your site using Google Webmaster Tools. More information about the review process is available in Google's Webmaster Help Center.

©2008 Google - Google Home

Points for Fred!

Anyway, the fix is pretty simple. http://forums.invisionpower.com/index.php?showtopic=276512
Just have to wait for an admin to get on now.


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Hehe, I now have 777 posts! (Yay!)

I just started getting them -.-

My point exactly

You like to make fun of moderators by calling them "teenagers"? I have seen teenagers (like myself who is 18) who can write a thoughtful post on a subject matter without having to repeat myself in every single sentence by slightly rephrasing the original sentence in my message. When you learn how to read and write at a fourth grade level, maybe you can go along preaching your wisdom.

On the contrary, I suppose this is a wake up call for people who dont have good PC security measures. Just goes to prove that you can't take everything for granted.

Nelson, to my knowledge, the site was hosting malicious software. Someone found a way to put an iframe into the site, which tried to download malicious software to your computer, depending on your setup. That's why this isn't as simple as just notifying Google that this was a mistake.

We are waiting for someone with appropriate privileges to get online and fix it.

So once again, you have no idea what you're talking about, and I request that you stop trying to tell us how to fix it.

If your point was simply to point out that the the Mod's can't fix it, then why must you call them "incompetent teenagers"?

You have been way out of line. You need to apologize. And not just some mumbled ungracious apology, a real one. Tears, blubbering, the whole thing.

Nelson if i were you i would just be quiet...

Wow theres always like 9 people in this topic. And this topic has reached to 6 pages in one day and still going...

I am sorry to the Mods that have no knowledge to fix this problem

No knowledge? Are you saying there stupid? If so then thats not a very wise choice...

I agree.
AVG is now popping twice every time i go to a new page, so i should just wait it out?

That's it. Enjoy your mod preview.

I agree, definitely not enough blubbering.

I was honestly apologizing to the mods and still people have to dish me. I just posted what the page said and I get dished about it.

Your apology was at the best sarcastic, and directed at nobody.

We have the knowledge to fix the problem. Problem is, we do not have the tools. We look after the forum, we do not have the clearance to alter the source code of the forum, which is what has to be done.

No harm done, just don't come to me for any favors... I'm to incompetent to help you anyway. In fact, not sure I'm feeling competent to approve any posts, I seem to have forgotten how to do so.

And that is the way it should be - you can't have a forum with 10 admins. Using tiered levels of moderation ability is the correct way to administer a forum as big as the GMC, so it is both logical and smart that we should all not be able to alter the source code for the site.


That goes double for me. I'm not approving anything that's not filled to the brim with helpfulness, friendliness, and possibly candy. So I doubt I'll be helping Nelson out with much during his preview.

OK Nelson let me explain it to you. Perhaps you honestly don't understand.

It's not a question of the Moderators not being competent enough to fix the problem, or not having the knowledge to fix the problem.

Their accounts do not have the authority to fix the problem. The Mods account have varying degrees of power, none of which has the ability to fix the forums, nor remove the malware.

Regarding the google block. Once again the mods can't fix it. In fact at this point even fixing it won't immediately make the google block go away.

Once the malware has been removed from the site, and Google scrapes it to verify that the site is clean, at that point the block will be removed.

OK, now that we got that over with. I definitely won't be approving your, or anyone else's posts either. I don't care how much you and the others apologise. Not one post will be approved by me.

Just to let people know, I am using Firefox 3, and I am getting a warning every time I go to a different page on the forum.

Brontoman: to fix that go up to

>Tools
>Option
>Security Tab
>And in the Security Tab uncheck the box that says "Tell me if this site I'm visiting is a suspected attack_site"

Though of course if you run into a site that is an attack_site then you won't know.

So turn it back on after all of this is sorted out.

Sorry for the person that posted this on this topic, i didn't copy you just repeated what you said.

I fixed it by trying the Google Chrome you people were talking about. I like it better anyways.

I Keep getting attack site detected.. (With FireFox 3) so i switched to internet explorer and it is working... However I hope this gets fixed soon (AS I HATE IE), But i have no choice ATM (Don't want to get more browsers)

And I thought the "Games in General" section was full of biased idiots.


And you dare to call your opinion "unbiased" when you literally trash Firefox to pieces in your post? In Firefox, extensions aren't installed until you go through a security prompt. You're obviously making it sound like this is not the case.


Jesus Christ - does Windows filter bad software? Didn't think so. [excluding Vista's Windows Defender, but for over the past 10 years, it hasn't. Once again, what about IE? Does it have magical anti-malware protection? What exploits? All have been fixed in a very quick timeframe. Then again, every software in existence has exploits and most don't get fixed as fast at all.


Would you care to list these "malformed extensions", let alone the protocols you are talking about? I honestly haven't needed to use any protocol in Firefox ever that it hasn't supported out of the box.


I think Connor's post already killed this point. I have 4 gigs of RAM myself - I don't care, and nobody should care if they get a browser with numerous useful features and extensions that will make their web experience better by sacrificing a tiny amount of their memory.


I haven't encountered one single malicious extension in the 3 years I've used Firefox (I think somebody else said that here too). And since we're discussing which browser is best, Firefox has hundreds of useful, spyware free extensions IE doesn't. If you want absolute security, only install extensions from the official extension database. Problem solved.


Did it ever occur to you that half, if not most of this website applies to old versions of Firefox and that half of these points don't make sense (oh my god, Firefox doesn't pass the Acid3 test, just like almost no other browser does)?

Oh, and I can't believe I let this slip past me:


And what are you doing right now?

I can't believe nobody has put up to the stupid inane gibberish you've posted here. Personally, Firefox will always be my browser of choice, mainly because of the numerous extensions I can get, including Firebug and Adblock Plus. Have fun using Internet Explorer with the advertising and constant prompts to download malware whenever you visit "Smiley Central" by accident.

The reason you get a message is because the forum is an attack site. The forum was hacked, and is now dangerous to be on. Turn your security settings up (FF3 w/ noscript, myself, but any will do) and be careful. Don't accept any ActiveX Controls, unknown javascript, ect. and have an anti-virus handy. There's nothing more anybody can do (except laugh at Nelson).

I don't come often, but I'm pretty sure my ipodtouch isn't going to get infected. Can one confirm this?

Your iPod Touch isn't running Windows.

Thanks for the confirmation I am pretty certain that would've the answer regardless thank you

Ok, Im using Chrome, and its telling me, now its coming from the IP 196.32.220.3

The website in the IFRAME contains IFRAMES, hence, when I first found the malware, I did not search for yourtraff.biz, I was searching for one of the other domains it was referencing (see http://gmc.yoyogames.com/index.php?showtopic=396429) so it was Christian Sciberras that actually found the original location of it.

That IP address is likely to be just another one of those IFRAMEs.

I found this link
http://www.stopbadware.org/reports/contain...11%26t%3D317426

It is a stopbadware.org report on gmc.yoyogames.com

Um...why is everybody posting links to random reports on the site? We already know the GMC received malware...

Anyways, I've been using Safari on a Mac, and I didn't get it, so it's obviously a windows only thing. If we didn't already know that

Thank you, for stating the obvious. ^^
KC LC said once an Administrator is online, they'll get the message and shut-down the GMC until it's fixed.

You are quite welcome.

Are people still getting the warning message, even now?

I first noticed this last night. Why do people think if they don't get a warning message with a particular browser that that browser is immune, that is more a bad thing to happen. Most browsers/anti-viruses will warn you when a virus is detected, so if they don't, it's could be infecting you. You should want the error message, because it tells you that the browser knows it is a virus, albeit not on every page load.



Yep, an admin will tell us when the problem is fixed, it won't just go away by itself.

I assumed that. I'm just surprised an administrator hasn't been online at all today. Would have thought they would have fixed it/worked on it behind the scenes.

I'm surprised people are moving to chrome because its so secure. Does noone read NPT's blog?

I just like to point out that I only seem to get attacked when I visit the front page. I first noticed the virus, which was automaticaly blocked and deleted, early yesterday morning, (early like before I went to bed). There were 2 instances of it and some suspicios things I found running in the task manager. Then latter yesterday morning after I woke up, I brought the site up on google and it had the warning. I've been entering the site through a topic ever since so I havn't been going through the front page and the only thing I've noticed up until now is that when ever I press the back button I get an Activex messege. Just now however, I went to the front page and was attacked again by one virus and then again when I refreshed the page (no extras running in the task manager). I'm not sure if anyone else experiences the same things.

I've been using IE, and just so you know, I don't really favor either browser over the other between IE and FF. I use them both on my laptop although on my mom's computer I've had to resort to using FF exclusivly because her old version of IE seems to have contracted some horrible virus that makes everything run slow, even though I did manage to get rid of most of the nasty files. It seems that things still run slow and I'm sure most of the blame can be placed on my file-hungry sister and cusin who, fortunatly, have both been banned from using her computer completly. I'm sure the'll try to use it anyway and will probably download more of who knows what.

But anyway...If some people are getting really anoyed at virus messeges ,without adding extra risks you might be able to bypass them by skipping the front page and entering the site from a topic like I was doing. Just a simple suggestion, nothing like re-instaling windows or anything that might cause more harm than solution.

I realize this post may not have very much significance and that YYG will probably have the problem fixed in a day or 2 but I just kind of felt like posting. Also..., I could't resist commenting on one of my favorite posts in the topic.




BTW, I just got done doing a Technical Writing assignment about removing repetition and redundancy and when I saw this post I was allmost in tears.....












.......because I was laughing so much!!!
>.> Really, why else would it be? I love bad grammer in a non-contributing post within a topic that dosn't really matter. I also get a kick out of watching other people flame the mess out of eachother...so enugh with all this "agreeing" and stuff. In the words of Mr. L33T!1111 I decree, "MOAR WAR!"

Why should we? I mean you make it sound like we should do it every night before bed, its just one persons rant, and many 'bloggers' are so misinformed that it just misinforms the readers further, kind of like chinsese whispers

I have nod32, with its threat sense it believes multiple downloads are a form of virus, also if i open many links at once (for instance split .rar archives) it will instantly close firefox (no warning) so i would like to point out that if it even suspected that at one time there was malware anywhere on this forum it would of shut down firefox before any data could be sent or received. I think we are all safe and that something is wrong on your computer.


But ofcoarse yyg may have brainwashed me


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IE is a great browser, but as it happens it isnt very bright, it second guesses too much and is usually set to 'if in doubt, stay out'

Many websites have 'doubts' but are totally safe

I can't get you people, are you all DUMB or what?

When me and a friend fisrt found this issue, we reported it back to the admins. No mod can fix it, even if I am sure some of them a more then capable to do so (given they are web developers not just kiddies).

Secondly, the GMC DOES NOT HAVE A VIRUS DID YOU GET THAT?!
An iframe means your ***hole of a browser follows it directly to where there is the virus ON AN EXTERNAL SITE.

Do not come up with ideas of "this browser is better then that". This system is exactly what iframes where designed for - and it is not in the least harmfull.
Plus, if your browser doesn't support iframes, and is immune to this, it is not at all good as iframes are very important in web design.
So does not getting warnings/errors of any kind, can count there browser as ****.

thaddeus_maximus - As to the sites blackilisting the GMC, is just routine. In fact, I personally advised an agency about this problem. They are there just to limit infections - in fact Google has the option of removing a site from being blacklisted, as do some of the other blacklist websites.

Secure, you've got to be kidding!
For the lazy **** out there here's the exploit named in the link:Basically it specifies that chrome users can soon start finding executables (or any file) automatically downloaded from the internet.