The second iframe is gone too.

If Chronic used the patch I showed to Sandy, this forum should be up to standards and much more secure.

This is because, hack came from an exploit which the patch fixes.

So please settle down, everything is now back to normal.

XD
Yeah, let's format the whole world!
He's right people, there's nothing to worry about anymore. The IFrames are gone, and both Norton and Sophos are keeping their mouth shut here.
Still, I recommend scanning your system just in case your AV has missed something.

No not all of them have come from the GMC i expect. The bad thing is it's all traced down to a folder of Java's. The message that pops up when i entered the GMC at first said:

Name: OP
Company: Hipoint (i think)

Then somewhere down the page the Java logo was there. And also a Java icon popped up next to my netgear connection icon.

I know that i had a low status cookie, and that's it.

And it's not from the GMC directly - because it wasn't your fault, and it was coming from a different site.

How sweet it is to come here without that warning popping up so I guess the wonderful people GMC has eradicated the problem. Hooray

That was simply a jar file

Finally I can come here without a bunch of warnings about malicious webpages.

Hooray

Be carefull, the IFrame is back (pointing to the same malicious site, inetppui.com).

Allready PM-ed Chronic about it.

[edit]
The IFrame link itself just changed (indicating someone activily breaking into & editing the forum) to tsurls.com/in.cgi?Lams.

I was about to report the same thing, NoScript warned me.

Seems to only be on the homepage (http://gmc.yoyogames.com) though...

Ah I do love NoScript

It could have been loaded form his cache and not on the forum and later his cache got cleared and it was gone then.

I know that is not likely but I am just giving a possibility

Ok, i just installed AVG a few hours ago, and it works perfectly. All the viruses have been moved the Vault (in AVG).

So thank's guys. Oh yeah ragarnak your right, i didn't notice that, i will have to do another scan again tommoro.

-Tom.

@TD games:

Try avast. It's a full suite instead of AVG which is only AV. I personally like it more.

I'm on a computer in my college - any chance of this pc being affected?

Doubt it. Besides, it's gone now.
I installed an antivirus because of this "problem", I haven't had an antivirus since I reinstalled Vista about 6 months ago, and I didn't have one single virus. (Avast!)
I'm thinking you had to use IE or do something stupid to get it.

For me IE wanted to install a ActiveX plugin when we had the problem..

For added security anyone with Firefox i suggest NoScript, which will stop any java, javascript and flash running from a domain, if theres multiple domains in that page, each 1 will have to be added to the whitelist. Good for advertising, won't show them inless their images.

NoScript is saying that the homepage is now clean

Happy surfing, and watch out, apparently 1 in 10 sites have drive by viruses!

Oh well i have AVG installed now, and atleast it's better for me personally than Norton.

And no the tsurls domain is still on the homepage.

There is no more harm... The virus or whatever it was is gone look at one of the previous posts, chronic said it was gone. So this topic should be closed now.

Yes, and inbetween his cleaning of the forum and now another popped up.
Leave that conclusion to the moderators please (it does not look like you have the neccessary oversight over what is happening).

It's gone now ragarnak, i have been refreshing the homepage, and it's not appearing anymore. It could've been a glitch, unless there was an attack again.

Since i removed the last 2 iframes, another one DID show up (and was removed a few minutes ago). As far as i know, the guys over at YYG have applied the patch.

Glad your on the forum even though you said that you wont be till the 14th September

Hopefully no more will popup

Oh, its ok... i might be extending my stay

OK it's all good now... Thank god I can finally use the forums again. Heh...

I know this seems random but will IE 8 fix this if it were to happen in the future? (Which I hope it doesn't)

It doesn't show up on IE cause it is crap and never detected it, I got it on FF and Chrome. It's gone now though.

coolist/GMREC - This is not a browser issue. No one would like their site filled with viruses even if they are not downloadable.

Plus, as I said before, don't really too much on certain false affirmations. There's one bug in Chrome which is really terrible in my opinion. Especially when they affirmed their browser is secure.

The worst part is the same as the Firefox fiasco, people start inventing things about the browser. Sure Firefox is good, but it ain't the best. It looks even worse (to me at least) with the confusing myths and plainly flat lies. And no, this is not for Firefox only, it applies to just about all the other browsers. Except IE I might add, which as far as I know, they never lied about it's issues (unlike the other browsers).

If any browser was the best, it would be the one and only.


Also, in reply to Chronic, I am glad they did the patch.
One thing remains. I've heard about an exploit where the first user ID is a super user ID and still exists in the forum (that is, Mark's profile).
I am not sure if it was ever fixed, just naming it in case you knew anything. This time though, I can't reccomend any fixes.

Hmm... I saw Mark reading this thread yesterday, but he didn't post anything. No need to jump to conclusions though.

I suppose I was one of v lucky ones then, huh... maybe it's completely fixed now, yay, it's fixed.
Edit: Go Avast whoo, whoot, but why does it take longer with thorough scans than a average scan is something wrong with my anti-virus for not going past 0% while doing a thorough scan within 2 hours, just to get 1%, usually with average it only takes a hour and a half, which is ok for scanning 32 gigabytes I guess.

I do agree with the fact that there is no "ultimate browser". However, IE has lied many times about it's features. They say that it's speedy, Firefox, Chrome, and Opera all run faster.
Oh, I'd like to hear about this "Firefox fiasco", by the way. I've used it ever since my friend made me use it instead of IE a few years back, and I really do have to say its more secure, faster, and more customizable.

Quite the opposite. Officially, the only text and specifications written about IE are always true. One important thing to note here is that IE is never (officially) comparred t other browsers, and when they say it's faster, it is compared to it's older versions, rather then other browsers. Firefox on the other hand has been exagerated and attributed with a lot of lies.
The fiasco is there, the firefox team describes their browser rightfully, and the fans exagerate thinking about the great deal of "good reputition" they are giving to the browser.
Sure, Firefox is good, but it is (in my opinion) the worst marketed browser ever.
Due to the problems mentioned above, I wouldn't trust Firefox anything else then testing.
That's another myth. First "they" don't say it's "faster then the other browsers". In any case, this benchmark is not at all reliable for various reasons. As someone mentioned above, Firefox is faster at opening tabs. On my computer, IE loads faster then Firefox 3.
As you see, the speed one gains somewhere looses it elsewhere.
Told you what's wrong with it. I dislike their marketing strategies, in fact I think they are even more dishonest then MS's distributing IE with Windows. Actively discourage the use, force or agree about the user's choice of browser is highly unethical and dishonest. Especially when browser owners doesn't exactly know what they are getting into.
Say what you like, but the first thing most developers / technicians would need in a new installation of windows is a browser. IE does the taks easily without hassle. If you want any other fancy browser, you can get it later on.
Firefox is quite good. But with the technical problems and people's bad habits, I've limited myself from its use.
Also, as to customization, I think Firefox without extentions could be very well nearly just as any other browser.

Took me around 9 hours the other day to do a thorough scan on a 320gb drive.

:s
Avast only took like 30 minutes->an hour to scan my 150 GB HDD.

I'm still browsing here with JavaScript disabled.

IFrames aren't part of Javascript

But what's contained in the iframe is.

if you are redirected to to a page saying these forums may cause harm, it would be from a previous tracking virus from another website. a virus that tracked your history and found that this website is your most visited. check what other websites you have been on... like myspace for example..
any virus's you have on your computer would be caused by a different website you have been on. or a file you have downloaded.

You do know files can be downloaded onto your computer without your permission, right? How do you think the internet works?

I'm preatty sure those past couple of viruses were connected to this site somehow, because I havn't really been going to any other sites other than this one and my 2 college sites. Now what are the chances that all those other people go to the same college sites as I do? FTM what are the chances that my secure college sites have been affected and yet no one there has mentioned it? And if there was never anything wrong on this site then what was it that Cronic keept removing?

I know I'll regret making a post about browsers but...
I've heard the latest beta of IE is twice as fast as Firefox 3

As far as the virus goes, I think the gmc could of done a better job informing people of the problem than just a topic in the community section.

It existed, I know people who were affected by it and had to delete it off their computer, I may have it for all I know, I don't have an up-to-date anti-virus.

So it's gone? Fine. Was it able to "infect" Ubuntu computers? I'm working on a Linux, so...

An iframe was inserted on these forums that lead to several exploits, including getting personal data ActiveX (MSIE), downloading viruses through Javascript (all browser/Windows only) and Javascript XSS exploits (all capable browsers/multiplatform). Really you can't be more stupid then that:
-How can you know if it was attacked if now it is fixed?
-Are you saying know more about the internet then I and those that fixed the problems (which are professional web developers) do?
-You are actually not believing in an official annoucement and the moderators/admins replies?
-You really think this topic would have survived if it where a hoax?

You do know that not all files from the internet are automatically downloaded? Certain files which the browser can't handle are NOT downloaded without user permission. Such files include executables like exe,dll,ocx... which are the files that contain viruses.

Nearly twice. But that bis because firefox does a better job in caching then IE. At this point this is just user opinion which one to prefer. Still, it is totally stupid for people to compare speeds, especially when the difference is in milliseconds or a couple of seconds.

It wasn't "just one virus". Please see my first note in this reply.

This topic isn't about browsers, please keep it that way.

This topic is about an infection that's gone. So now, this topic is about nothing.

PS: Google Chrome did download exe's if you put them in the <img> tag.

Now that is an Idea let GMC contact thousands of people that they have a problem. I think before they did that the problem would have been fixed if GMC knew of the problem.

I've got FF3 and I got some kind of warning inside my webbrowser. But I pressed "Continue anyway" because I know that GMC is not a trojan or something.. I've got Symantec and SpyWare Doctor...

EDIT: The message said something like that the site looked suspicious

Walter1996 - The warning is correct but outdated, because the problem is fixed.

What could there POSSIBLEY be left to discuss on this topic!?

so...were safe now right???

just need a conformation

i have AGV

ironman_117

Then WHY POST HERE? Honestly, if you aren't concerned about this topic, then go away.

I believe Chronic used some of the information in this topic when dealing with the malware. When HE decides the topic need closing, then HE will close it.

Otherwise, just let it die. Why does every "completed" topic have to closed?

Uhm maybe for those who weren't on the GMC for the last week: and now wonder why the warning is in place for firefox?

Otherwise I bet that there will be like 1e12 topics coming "why do I get a warning when trying to go to the gmc?"