Guys Be Careful!

[Fire-Fist]

I'm getting nothing on my end.

Should I be worried in light of what you posted ?

nothing on your end because browsers have started blocking the infected url in question.
About worried... i dont know. With worm this complex lot depends on your antivirus, flash and java versions.

[wintergt]

Yeah it's the Blackhole Exploit Kit. I got it too, now it seems to be gone. If you get infected, I think it will launch a fake virus scanner which tells u u have many virus infections and prompts you to buy it. You probably won't be able to do anything with your PC anymore (I had something similar happen to me a month or two ago, googled it on another PC, then manually removed it in safe mode).

Funny when I read up on the Blackhole Exploit Kit: "the kit will cost $1,500 annually, $1,000 for a half-year and $700 for 3 months. (..) Even though the price of this exploit kit is high, it remains a sought after commodity."

[No Maam]

Yeah it's the Blackhole Exploit Kit. I got it too, now it seems to be gone. If you get infected, I think it will launch a fake virus scanner which tells u u have many virus infections and prompts you to buy it. You probably won't be able to do anything with your PC anymore (I had something similar happen to me a month or two ago, googled it on another PC, then manually removed it in safe mode).

Funny when I read up on the Blackhole Exploit Kit: "the kit will cost $1,500 annually, $1,000 for a half-year and $700 for 3 months. (..) Even though the price of this exploit kit is high, it remains a sought after commodity."

I looked this up and how anyone can sell it like that is a mystery to me.

[trappedolphin]

I disconnected my Internet for a while. Came back on and got the Security Essentials thing as well as this which has never appeared anywhere before:

Spoiler:

@FF Hmm I'll see if I can remember what triggered that javascript thing at the bottom.

--- Update From New Post Merge ---

just noticed that javascript in status bar (left bottom corner). There should be nothing on apforums which might have caused that to show. Any ideas where was your mouse when you took that screenshot?

(i think that either that adobe crash or windows essential msg is fake).

Mm I moused around but can't find it anymore. I think that most likely, it was when I moused over the notification at the top telling me Adobe Acrobat had crashed, see details, send crash report, etc. It's not appearing anymore though, and neither is the Essentials message. The message I just posted still pops up every time I come here, though.

[MarcelloF]

I just got the same.

[Thousand Lion-chan]

So long as AVG keeps kicking its ass, I don't have anything to worry about no wonder how many times it attacks me I assume.

[Fire-Fist]

I looked this up and how anyone can sell it like that is a mystery to me.

stuff like this sells for lot in underground forums. and $1000 per year is not high at all.

[Sakonosolo]

Yeah I'm getting "This site is a reported attack site" when visiting the main page at least. It seems to only be that page.

[Urouge]

It's taken care of. Trust me every time it happens we're taking action that will either narrow it down or eliminate it. I'm not going to go into specifics but we know a lot more of what's happening now than we did two weeks ago.

[Fire-Fist]

good to know that

[ntk]

It's taken care of. Trust me every time it happens we're taking action that will either narrow it down or eliminate it. I'm not going to go into specifics but we know a lot more of what's happening now than we did two weeks ago.

Glad to read that, because it started with me, too, today and I was quite surprised by it.

[Waffles]

Yeah every time I go to a new page on here I get the "this site may harm your computer" warnings

[Fire-Fist]

Yeah very time I go to a new page on here I het the "this site may harm your computer" warnings

You can ignore it now since its been fixed. But help getting it unlisted by clicking "this is not a harmful site". and you can browse using http://forums.arlongpark.net/

[No Maam]

It's happening to me right now.

[metteminne]

Same here + adobe player always crashed a while ago

[No Maam]

It's taken care of. Trust me every time it happens we're taking action that will either narrow it down or eliminate it. I'm not going to go into specifics but we know a lot more of what's happening now than we did two weeks ago.

That's good then, I was a bit worried.

[brennen.exe]

@Urouge, Brennen and other admins: I know you guys work really hard and I am fully aware that maintaining a site such as apforums is no easy task. But considering how frequently the files are getting infected and how worms which mail and upload stuff ( can be anything from keylogger to spam mailers to ... everything), don't you think there should be a permanent solution by now?

The problem is more widespread than us. Other forums have the same exact issue, to which vBulletin released a patch that doesn't work. There have been more than just what has been reported as well, so like Urouge said, we are narrowing it down little by little. Once we know it won't be bothering us again, I'll get Google off our back.

[dragonsword]

Google warned me today.. I use linux so I just went straight through. Linux ftw!

Also, I thought the forum started getting ads and one of them was the cause of the infection, which is normally the case with most sites which this happens to. Good to see it isnt true.

Noscript + Adblockplus + Firefox + Linux = Mandatory Browsing kit.

[CosmicDebris]

Yeah, I got a warning from Google today. First time I ever got any kind of malware warning.

[Smudger]

Just got it popping up saying "this site will nuke your pc, do you want to continue?"

My i7+massive security laughs at this idea.