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Title: Virus, Through GTM
Post by: infiniteinertia on June 16, 2009, 11:24:12 AM: Yesterday my computer was ATTACKED by a virus.

I called up some friends of mine, and the virus came through a portal from this webites. Got a bunch of different types of KeyLoggers, Artemis', Trojans, and various other viruses that swamped my system.

Not a complaint, just trying to inform everybody, as well as the administrators, because it is obvious that we have had trouble with spambots as of late as well.

All the viruses, and their source, were directed from GTM.
Title: Virus, Through GTM
Post by: R0B0SH4RK on June 16, 2009, 02:10:14 PM: That's odd. I'm running a full scan now just in case. If I find anything like what you said, I'll post what I find.
Title: Virus, Through GTM
Post by: WhamettNuht on June 16, 2009, 02:42:17 PM: Same here
Title: Virus, Through GTM
Post by: Sage on June 16, 2009, 02:46:04 PM: When i tried to shut down my computer, there was a program called "Ribbons" that was running. After i shut my comp down, i restarted and ran a full scan. nothing found.
Title: Virus, Through GTM
Post by: ACAMS on June 16, 2009, 02:46:56 PM: Viruses don't attack.....you have to open/run them. Never open/run anything you don't know about even if it is sent by what looks like somebody you know....like the post office, UPS and government, there are several going around right now..
Title: Virus, Through GTM
Post by: tankcat on June 17, 2009, 12:52:37 AM: Quote from: infiniteinertia;44559
Yesterday my computer was ATTACKED by a virus.

I called up some friends of mine, and the virus came through a portal from this webites. Got a bunch of different types of KeyLoggers, Artemis', Trojans, and various other viruses that swamped my system.

Not a complaint, just trying to inform everybody, as well as the administrators, because it is obvious that we have had trouble with spambots as of late as well.

All the viruses, and their source, were directed from GTM.

I've never seen any redirections or other out-of-character behavior from the gametechmods' website or this forum... In order for you to catch a virus from visiting the forums, javascript or other forms of activescript would need to be enabled in order for them to inject a malicious script that would automatically execute a virus or trojan... My guess is that you already had some kind of virus/trojan that injected the malicious code into your browser, this is a very common behavior. Lot's of trojans/viruses will inject malicious code into the website you are visiting using javascript or invisible iframes, I would suggest upgrading to firefox and using the noscript plugin if you have not done so...
Title: Virus, Through GTM
Post by: infiniteinertia on July 22, 2009, 09:46:41 PM: The website at gametechmods.com contains elements from the site viorfjoj-2.com, which appears to host malware – software that can hurt your computer or otherwise operate without your consent.
Title: Virus, Through GTM
Post by: S.T.C. on July 22, 2009, 09:54:51 PM: well that explains why my laptop just blocked a virus that supposedly came from here
Title: Virus, Through GTM
Post by: 40757 on July 22, 2009, 10:31:22 PM: Yeah I got that message just now saying that this website contains malware and may damage my computer.
Title: Virus, Through GTM
Post by: DuckRA2 on July 23, 2009, 01:22:54 AM: me toooo

im gonna scan my computer now
Title: Virus, Through GTM
Post by: Weirdo on July 23, 2009, 06:27:14 AM: I haven't had a message as such yet, but should we do anything about this?
Title: Virus, Through GTM
Post by: JoeBlo on July 23, 2009, 06:41:06 AM: just regularly update your virus protection and do a scan once a day.. you can set them to be auto on most computers
Title: Virus, Through GTM
Post by: Weirdo on July 23, 2009, 06:45:09 AM: I actually meant is there anything that can be done about stopping the virus from coming through GTM -if that makes sence- but if not then... yeah.

Thanks for the tip anyway JB.
Title: Virus, Through GTM
Post by: life robot arena2 on July 23, 2009, 11:36:43 AM: OMG I just got attacked by *gulp* GTM!
Good ol norton stopped it.
Title: Virus, Through GTM
Post by: S.T.C. on July 23, 2009, 03:47:08 PM: well I can't access the front page anymore,I get a broken link now
Title: Virus, Through GTM
Post by: TriTon on July 23, 2009, 03:49:52 PM: I got it too, when i logged on today, i got a message saying that GTM is unsafe.
Title: Virus, Through GTM
Post by: S.T.C. on July 23, 2009, 03:51:37 PM: great
GTM is a broken link
RA2WIKI is getting messed up by a trojan
Title: Virus, Through GTM
Post by: Flying_Chao on July 23, 2009, 03:54:08 PM: We are under attack!
Title: Virus, Through GTM
Post by: TriTon on July 23, 2009, 03:55:37 PM: No, GTM is attacked by the ppl who hacked Imageshack.

EDIT: WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?????????????
Title: Virus, Through GTM
Post by: System32 on July 23, 2009, 04:43:29 PM: WTF? Is this site really popular or is ACAMS and goosy pulling pranks?
Title: Virus, Through GTM
Post by: roboman2444 on July 23, 2009, 05:29:13 PM: haha i has a mac!
Title: Virus, Through GTM
Post by: HurricaneAndrew on July 23, 2009, 07:20:02 PM: Has anyone else noticed the member, "Stephanie"?

They have been on for hours, but have supposedly been PMing the whole time.
Title: Virus, Through GTM
Post by: S.T.C. on July 23, 2009, 07:26:31 PM: I think she's advertising her website or something
Title: Virus, Through GTM
Post by: Oggie on July 23, 2009, 07:27:22 PM: Ye. Got a PM asking about how I'm doing. Reminds me of the gold sellers in WoW :/
It also included a quote and a link.
Title: Virus, Through GTM
Post by: HurricaneAndrew on July 23, 2009, 07:28:44 PM: I figured it was a spammer... or whoever released the virus
Title: Virus, Through GTM
Post by: Condor33 on July 23, 2009, 07:38:25 PM: You know, I was going to dismiss this thread as paranoia, but whenever I try to get on the site I get a popup from Norton saying a virus attack was blocked. Furthermore, it freaks out entirely and wont let the page load when I try and look at anything loaded from RA2Tube. Just thought I'd mention this.
Title: Virus, Through GTM
Post by: kill343gs on July 23, 2009, 07:46:21 PM: I hope you are all using Firefox, theres a virus going around on Internet explorer.
Title: Virus, Through GTM
Post by: Condor33 on July 23, 2009, 07:58:55 PM: I use Chrome :neutral:
Title: Virus, Through GTM
Post by: Clickbeetle on July 23, 2009, 08:08:13 PM: Something serious is going on... ACAMS?

I tried visiting here earlier in the day and I got a broken link, along with Norton reporting a blocked intrusion attempt.

Now the main page appears to be just gone. Deleted. It's just the default directory that shows up when there is no index.

Edit: From the Admin control panel:

Quote from: Admin panel
There is a newer version of vBulletin available to download

Latest version available: 3.8.3. You are currently running vBulletin version 3.6.8.

Click here to download vBulletin 3.8.3 from the Members' Area (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1746892)

Not sure if it would do any good now, but for future reference...
Title: Virus, Through GTM
Post by: kill343gs on July 23, 2009, 08:14:49 PM: The main page has been fixed. Something must be going on, the wiki link was broken yesterday.
Title: Virus, Through GTM
Post by: ACAMS on July 23, 2009, 08:46:12 PM: Quote from: Clickbeetle;54247
Something serious is going on... ACAMS?

Well the server got hacked, and those without protection may want to run this... http://www.combofix.org ....... Or (http://www.combofix.org / ....... Or) get some other program to remove spyware and such. (you have a ton from other places anyway)

People who do that should be put in prison, tied down naked to a bench with a very detailed picture of a naked woman tatooed on their back!

All is fixed now!

I will need to pay for the Vbulletin update and see if I can install it, but will probably crash the forums forever.....(maybe goose will help me)

I will also update the WIKI and I have downloaded some programs to stop spammers on both after the updates.

This time they hacked the server so I changed the password, and that is about all I can do.
Title: Virus, Through GTM
Post by: Jack Daniels on July 23, 2009, 09:07:53 PM: Want any donation money via Paypal to diffuse the cost? how much is the update?
Title: Virus, Through GTM
Post by: Doomkiller on July 23, 2009, 11:22:12 PM: Odd. I never got a virus warning and im running the latest avg anti virus....
Title: Virus, Through GTM
Post by: kill343gs on July 23, 2009, 11:42:19 PM: ACAMS your link is broken...
Title: Virus, Through GTM
Post by: Doomkiller on July 23, 2009, 11:47:52 PM: Quote from: kill343gs;54300
ACAMS your link is broken...

http://www.combofix.org/ (http://www.combofix.org/)
He acidetly put in the dots and the or in the link :)
Title: Virus, Through GTM
Post by: JoeBlo on July 24, 2009, 04:16:29 AM: Quote from: kill343gs;54244
I hope you are all using Firefox, theres a virus going around on Internet explorer.

there is many a virus on IE which is why I switched to Firefox to begin with
Title: Virus, Through GTM
Post by: Doomkiller on July 24, 2009, 04:21:11 AM: The internet in general is full of viruses, spywear, worms and trojans....
Title: Virus, Through GTM
Post by: Pwnator on July 24, 2009, 04:27:35 AM: Quote from: Condor33;54246
I use Chrome :neutral:

YAY. But Kaspersky's the one that's blocking harmful sites, though. It never blocked this one.
Title: Virus, Through GTM
Post by: somestrangeguy on July 24, 2009, 04:35:17 AM: Quote from: JoeBlo;54343
there is so many a viruses on IE so that you can call IE a virus

Fix'd :-D
Title: Virus, Through GTM
Post by: Pwnator on July 24, 2009, 04:36:59 AM: ^^^ Win.
Title: Virus, Through GTM
Post by: System32 on July 24, 2009, 05:21:13 AM: I got a screenie of the bastard.

(https://gametechmods.com/uploads/images/11314ViRUS.bmp)
Title: Virus, Through GTM
Post by: life robot arena2 on July 24, 2009, 06:59:53 AM: Quote from: kill343gs;54244
I hope you are all using Firefox, theres a virus going around on Internet explorer.

Oh..... Crap.
Title: Virus, Through GTM
Post by: Somebody on July 24, 2009, 09:34:21 AM: Am I the only one here using Firefox? I am the only one in my family that swears by it, after the family comp was hacked and nearly mangled by a virus.
Title: Virus, Through GTM
Post by: JoeBlo on July 24, 2009, 10:02:50 AM: Quote from: JoeBlo;54343
there is many a virus on IE which is why I switched to Firefox to begin with

Mozilla FTW :-D Im the only one im my family that swears by it too
Title: Virus, Through GTM
Post by: somestrangeguy on July 24, 2009, 11:14:33 AM: Somebody: Nope, you are not. Firefox all the way!
Title: Virus, Through GTM
Post by: infiniteinertia on July 24, 2009, 11:38:19 AM: Chrome all the way, you guys should have heeded my warning months ago.

But no, no one listens to InfiniteInertia on the loooney express
Title: Virus, Through GTM
Post by: GameKing3 on July 24, 2009, 03:07:30 PM: Hey i use chrome to. For some reason my internet explorer and firefox are so slow and chrome isn't plus i like the spell check. Anyways when i got on GTM yesterday it gave me some alert message about the virus but nothing happened to my computer. I am going to assume that it has been fixed because i did not get the message today.
Title: Virus, Through GTM
Post by: roboman2444 on July 24, 2009, 04:46:26 PM: firefox ,opera and chrome. i only use ie whe the others dont work for some java based games.
Title: Virus, Through GTM
Post by: Serge on July 24, 2009, 04:56:08 PM: I'd use Chrome everywhere, but I'm waiting for it to be ported properly (and be stable) on Linux and OS X. Chromium on Windows is pretty awesome. Otherwise I use Firefox. 3.5 was kinda slowish on windows, but they fixed it in 3.5.1 (all fonts were cached at the start of the application).

All you people complaining about a virus being "on" GTM have probably just a really messed up Windows install with spyware, adware and worms all over the place.

(Also, FYI worm != virus. A virus infects files, adds it's header in binaries, and shiet. Much more advanced. A worm just keeps running on your PC, copies itself and maybe makes your PC join a botnet. It can be as simple as a dozen of VBScript lines created by a 10-year old on crack)
Title: Virus, Through GTM
Post by: Somebody on July 24, 2009, 05:14:16 PM: where can i get 3.5, because mine just updated to 3.1.2...
Title: Virus, Through GTM
Post by: Serge on July 24, 2009, 05:16:09 PM: Quote from: Somebody;54557
where can i get 3.5, because mine just updated to 3.1.2...

Maybe http://www.getfirefox.com/ ..?
Title: Virus, Through GTM
Post by: Condor33 on July 24, 2009, 06:47:27 PM: Chrome is actually *slightly* slower than Firefox on my machine, but is still a lot easier to use. Plus, it blocks all popups instead of just the first one like Firefox.