BE Malware?

by banter on May 21, 2009 8:30 AM EDT Comment 15 comments

Got this google chrome warning when I clicked on today. You guys might want to have SBNation have a look at their banners.

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Warning: Visiting this site may harm your computer! The website at www.bloodyelbow.com contains elements from the site creatives.more-banners.com, which appears to host malware – software that can hurt your computer or otherwise operate without your consent. Just visiting a site that contains malware can infect your computer. For detailed information about the problems with these elements, visit the Google Safe Browsing diagnostic page for creatives.more-banners.com. Learn more about how to protect yourself from harmful software online.

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thanks for the alert!

"the spirit of your average dumbass with more overblown rhetoric" OR "the self-appointed savior of MMA"

by Kid Nate on May 21, 2009 8:51 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

cool

I think chrome is over sensitive to such things but I wanted to let you guys know it was out there…would have sent an email but I couldn’t find it

by banter on May 21, 2009 12:50 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

It's not a problem...

I’m a web developer and have to use Chrome, Safari, etc… a lot.

Chrome happens to pop those types of things up a lot, likely due to javascript running or something else. I don’t think BE is loading any malware.

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by Leland Roling on May 21, 2009 8:57 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I got a virus yesterday. Only two sites I was on and one of them was bloodyelbow. Could have been a script in an ad. I am running firefox with plug in noscript now so it won’t happen again.

by szucconi on May 21, 2009 9:23 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

If there is a malware script in an ad, that’s fucking bullshit, that shit has to be illegal to the ad distrubition company.

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by Leland Roling on May 21, 2009 9:30 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I visit this site more than a dozen times a day and not once have I encountered a problem such as this. I’d be more skeptical of your firewall or the other websites you visit.

by Ahhhoki on May 21, 2009 9:54 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Nah, it’s Chrome. It has a more advanced system to detect Malware, Adware, but with that said, it likely sees javascript running as a possible danger. You can simply click “Proceed anyways” and it’ll just keep going.

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by Leland Roling on May 21, 2009 10:34 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I am on this site all day at work. This has happen twice and BE is the only site in common to both times. I am surfing, do everything that I normally do and bam, some virus scan pops up saying I am infected. I know that its lying and it is itself a virus. I kill it through the task man and I hear the sys admin “Steve, what are you doing?”. He has spotted the infection using his back door tools (symantec stuff). He spends about an hour cleaning it. I was redirected to a site called knurfeer.com, which was where the virus was. Not sure what did it, but I trust both sites I was on and the one thing they have in common is ads.

by szucconi on May 21, 2009 10:40 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

My TrendMicro Antivirus here at work freaked out on the site today as well. It does not come up everytime.

by gremlin1496 on May 21, 2009 10:44 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

BE IS A VIRUS

Confirmed!

Yeah, I got a virus too from this website perhaps, and Chrome warned me as well.

by MMASuPreMaCy on May 21, 2009 1:04 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

SBNation says

Our folks at SBN sent us this message:

We have blocked several ad providers.

"the spirit of your average dumbass with more overblown rhetoric" OR "the self-appointed savior of MMA"

by Kid Nate on May 21, 2009 2:16 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I knew it!
=)

by MMASuPreMaCy on May 21, 2009 3:13 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

they also said

they didn’t believe it was anything serious and definitely not a virus. More likely some kind of click tracking if anything.
The ad providers were blocked strictly out of caution.

"the spirit of your average dumbass with more overblown rhetoric" OR "the self-appointed savior of MMA"

by Kid Nate on May 21, 2009 5:11 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs