BE Malware?
by banter on May 21, 2009 8:30 AM EDT
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PrintGot 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"
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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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.
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
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.
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
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.
BE IS A VIRUS
Confirmed!
Yeah, I got a virus too from this website perhaps, and Chrome warned me as well.
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"
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"
The only virus I’ve gotten from BE is lodged in my brain and forces me check the site several times a day.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. -Samuel Beckett
by Scott C. Broussard on May 21, 2009 7:06 PM EDT reply actions
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