Have You Recently Received a Virus Warning on BE?

by Nate Wilcox on Mar 7, 2011 5:58 PM EST

I have received several emails from BE readers that they have seen a virus warning while on this site. I've referred everyone to SB Nation support. Here are more details.

This is what the product team at SB Nation recommends if this happens to you. First, close your browser and don't click on anything. Then, follow this procedure:

Send as detailed a report as possible to support@sbnation.com and include screen shots of everything abnormal you have seen. In your email include answers to the following questions:

- What browser/OS are you using?
- What site were you on?
- What page were you on?
- When day did you first see this?
- How many times have you seen it since?
- Has it happened on any other sites? Which ones?
- Did you click on anything after it redirected you to the virus scan screen?

Also, the product team would like to do a "screen share" session with you if this has happened to you; in your email let them know a time when you would be available to have such a session with them. The product team here has been working on eradicating this problem, and you can help.

Thanks!

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A virus warning on BE?

I bet Kid Nate did it….

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by SSreporters on Mar 7, 2011 6:15 PM EST reply actions

He pretends to be looking for a solution to get people off his trail.

by Brandon Starr on Mar 7, 2011 6:29 PM EST up reply actions 2 recs

He's like the Dexter of SBNation

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by dgonz on Mar 7, 2011 7:49 PM EST up reply actions 3 recs

Ah shit

I literally spent the past month working 14 hour weeks cleaning up some crazy fucking virus at work. I don’t want to come to BE and deal with it all over again!

That aside though, hope you guys get a handle on this. It’s a pain in the ass.

by dgonz on Mar 7, 2011 6:21 PM EST reply actions

14 hours-a-day*

I wouldn’t mind working 14 hours a week actually

by dgonz on Mar 7, 2011 6:22 PM EST up reply actions

Yeah I got it on a Goldenstateofmind

by The Art Of War on Mar 7, 2011 6:26 PM EST reply actions

WAR MACBOOKS

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"Você ta fudido. Se vai levar muita porrada, ta ligado?" - Anderson Silva

by milk72 on Mar 7, 2011 7:29 PM EST reply actions 1 recs

Lol. I was gonna type “Get a Mac” but I didn’t wanna be that guy.

by MMAussie on Mar 7, 2011 7:33 PM EST up reply actions

damn you guys

by The Art Of War on Mar 7, 2011 7:43 PM EST up reply actions

WAR UBUNTU

Charlie Miller wins himself a Mac every year at the Pwn2Own hacking competition.

MacBook Air gets pwned in 2 minutes flat.

Never approach a vast undertaking with a half-vast plan.

by szquirrel on Mar 7, 2011 9:23 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs

There will be pretty widespread viruses on Mac's in a matter of a few years...

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by ElliotMatheny on Mar 8, 2011 6:00 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs

as i read this, my computer got completely wrecked by a virus

And i had to fix, didnt take long since my dad is a nerd, but yeah something is wrong with the site

by majuca8 on Mar 7, 2011 9:10 PM EST reply actions

Comodo Firewall + avast! anti-virus. Everybody. Now.

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by Derek Suboticki on Mar 7, 2011 9:12 PM EST reply actions

Run NoScript & AdBlockPlus as well imo

It's just a world, it's just a life.

by DirtyML on Mar 7, 2011 11:28 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs

I do this ^

It works.

Learn JiuJitsu, it's fun.

by RolloTomasi on Mar 7, 2011 11:48 PM EST up reply actions

Love and swear by that combo. Recommend every Firefox user to have them.

by Horselover Fat on Mar 8, 2011 10:37 AM EST up reply actions

Trend Micro freaks out at work on some of the ads along the sides sometimes. Not everyday, just here and there. I will pay closer attention next time.

That is the only time I have had any virus warnings is from Trend Micro at work. AVG at home never has any problems.

by gremlin1496 on Mar 7, 2011 9:27 PM EST reply actions

Don’t like virus’s? Stop using windows. Imagine how much faster your machine will run if you no longer have to use up a 1/4 of your resources checking for virus’s.

by fitefan on Mar 7, 2011 9:32 PM EST reply actions

But I like playing Starcraft II…

by Derek Suboticki on Mar 7, 2011 10:25 PM EST up reply actions

Probably could have found a better excuse

…since Starcraft II is also available on Mac.

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by Charles Awad on Mar 7, 2011 11:54 PM EST up reply actions

Duke Nukem?

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by Anton Tabuena on Mar 8, 2011 12:48 AM EST up reply actions

I was bought a PC. Not really in a position to bitch about free shit.

by Derek Suboticki on Mar 8, 2011 1:52 AM EST up reply actions

I like two mouse buttons???

by gremlin1496 on Mar 8, 2011 3:57 PM EST up reply actions

Can’t believe ppl still say this. Macs have had a right click for at least 10 yrs now.

by MMAussie on Mar 8, 2011 4:03 PM EST up reply actions

I use slackware + xfce on my non-gaming rig

mostly because emacs is the business.

It's just a world, it's just a life.

by DirtyML on Mar 7, 2011 11:29 PM EST up reply actions

WAR VI

(Come on, when was the last time BE had a thread where it was acceptable to be a computer nerd? Let’s run this WAR [GEEKY THING] joke into the fucking ground.)

Never approach a vast undertaking with a half-vast plan.

by szquirrel on Mar 8, 2011 6:30 AM EST up reply actions

Slackware? Damn and I thought I was hard core running the rawhide branch of Fedora. Last time I installed Slackware it involved making a kernel floppy and an initrd floppy and …

by fitefan on Mar 8, 2011 11:15 AM EST up reply actions

Or you can just be smart about it and be careful with what you do.

Guillotine.

by iiowyn on Mar 8, 2011 9:34 AM EST up reply actions

yes i have about three times

by Bigbub on Mar 7, 2011 9:47 PM EST reply actions

I got a popup window saying something about a critical process.

It told me to click to start scanning. I did absolutely nothing with it, closed my other windows, and turned the computer off. When I turned the comp back on, nothing abnormal lurking about now.

by Slica on Mar 8, 2011 12:35 AM EST reply actions