Poll: The Escapist Infected?

[The Lost Big Boss]

Ya I know this sounds crazy, but my Google Chrome is telling me that this site is hosting malware alienradar.ru.

Everytime I see a page load it is loading alienradar.ru too.

From Google Chrome Anti-malware thing.

Has this site acted as an intermediary resulting in further distribution of malware?
Over the past 90 days, alienradar.ru appeared to function as an intermediary for the infection of 4 site(s) including rcert.ac.in/, love4s.freetzi.com/, billedmageren.dk/.

Has this site hosted malware?
Yes, this site has hosted malicious software over the past 90 days. It infected 767 domain(s), including pornupload.com/, germanblogs.de/, so1vnn.com/.


So is any one else getting this, is it a false positive, or is the escapist under attack?

 

[delet]

I've been getting that through Chrome too. It also made things laggy as hell. I was kind of waiting on someone to make this thread...

I just switched over to Firefox temporarily to fix that from popping up.

 

[hopeneverdies]

Well my computer likes to tell me that Internet Explorer has stopped working the first time I come to this site every time I log on, but it works fine after that.

 

[WrongSprite]

Hasn't happened for this site, but it's been doing it to other, completely random sites. Including my Uni site I think.

 

[Section Crow]

never got that, and i use chrome all the time

tried updating your chrome version?

 

[SnootyEnglishman]

I wouldn't know because i use a Mac and i get little to now viruses.

 

[Something Amyss]

I thought this was about zombies. I feel let down.

 

[thenumberthirteen]

Well I'm ok and I use chrome. Then again I'm in the Pub Club so maybe it's one of the ads.

If you get the message take a screenshot of the page and e-mail it to [email protected]. If you could also save the page as HTML and include that too, that would also help track it down.

It has already been reported.

 

[kouriichi]

Ew. Chrome.....
Why cant everybody just use IE these days?

 

[Mr. Gency]

The last time any computer told me that the Escapist is harmful to said computer also happens to be the last time Internet Explorer went bat-shit crazy.

Ew. Chrome.....
Why cant everybody just use IE these days?

*reads my post again*

 

[The Lost Big Boss]

Well I'm ok and I use chrome. Then again I'm in the Pub Club so maybe it's one of the ads.

If you get the message take a screenshot of the page and e-mail it to [email protected]. If you could also save the page as HTML and include that too, that would also help track it down.

It has already been reported.

Done.

The HTML is http://www.escapistmagazine.com/
It says the site is getting content from alienradar.ru, a site that hosts malware and infects many sites, mostly porn sites.

 

[thenumberthirteen]

Well I'm ok and I use chrome. Then again I'm in the Pub Club so maybe it's one of the ads.

If you get the message take a screenshot of the page and e-mail it to [email protected]. If you could also save the page as HTML and include that too, that would also help track it down.

It has already been reported.

Done.

The HTML is http://www.escapistmagazine.com/
It says the site is getting content from alienradar.ru, a site that hosts malware and infects many sites, mostly porn sites.

Um.. that's the URL. HTML is the programming language that builds the site. To save the HTML of the page you go to "Save as" and save it as HTML only.

 

[The Lost Big Boss]

Well I'm ok and I use chrome. Then again I'm in the Pub Club so maybe it's one of the ads.

If you get the message take a screenshot of the page and e-mail it to [email protected]. If you could also save the page as HTML and include that too, that would also help track it down.

It has already been reported.

Done.

The HTML is http://www.escapistmagazine.com/
It says the site is getting content from alienradar.ru, a site that hosts malware and infects many sites, mostly porn sites.

Um.. that's the URL. HTML is the programming language that builds the site. To save the HTML of the page you go to "Save as" and save it as HTML only.

Excuse me for that laps of stupidity, for what I said was very stupid. Errr, that sounded stupid.

 

[The Lost Big Boss]

Well I'm ok and I use chrome. Then again I'm in the Pub Club so maybe it's one of the ads.

If you get the message take a screenshot of the page and e-mail it to [email protected]. If you could also save the page as HTML and include that too, that would also help track it down.

It has already been reported.

Done.

The HTML is http://www.escapistmagazine.com/
It says the site is getting content from alienradar.ru, a site that hosts malware and infects many sites, mostly porn sites.

Um.. that's the URL. HTML is the programming language that builds the site. To save the HTML of the page you go to "Save as" and save it as HTML only.

I am saving the HTML only, and nothing is happening, it is just saying "Started". Any ideas?

 

[thenumberthirteen]

Well I'm ok and I use chrome. Then again I'm in the Pub Club so maybe it's one of the ads.

If you get the message take a screenshot of the page and e-mail it to [email protected]. If you could also save the page as HTML and include that too, that would also help track it down.

It has already been reported.

Done.

The HTML is http://www.escapistmagazine.com/
It says the site is getting content from alienradar.ru, a site that hosts malware and infects many sites, mostly porn sites.

Um.. that's the URL. HTML is the programming language that builds the site. To save the HTML of the page you go to "Save as" and save it as HTML only.

Excuse me for that laps of stupidity, for what I said was very stupid. Errr, that sounded stupid.

In the future technical matters like this are best posted in the <url=http://www.escapistmagazine.com/groups/chat/Tech-Team>Tech Team group. Site Admins regularly check up on issues like this. That's where I heard about this issue from.

 

[thenumberthirteen]

Well I'm ok and I use chrome. Then again I'm in the Pub Club so maybe it's one of the ads.

If you get the message take a screenshot of the page and e-mail it to [email protected]. If you could also save the page as HTML and include that too, that would also help track it down.

It has already been reported.

Done.

The HTML is http://www.escapistmagazine.com/
It says the site is getting content from alienradar.ru, a site that hosts malware and infects many sites, mostly porn sites.

Um.. that's the URL. HTML is the programming language that builds the site. To save the HTML of the page you go to "Save as" and save it as HTML only.

I am saving the HTML only, and nothing is happening, it is just saying "Started". Any ideas?

Are you using Chrome now? If so press Ctrl-U on the page and see what happens.

 

[EeveeElectro]

I thought this was about zombies. I feel let down.

Same here... I thought it would be 'The members of the Escapist are all zombies! are you willing to kill your Internet friends?'

That language is gobbly gook to me, but I've had no problems, I use Firefox.

 

[open trap]

I seem to be having other web sites pop up from this site, alot of the time it says im a winner and wants to give me a prize...

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

I thought this was about zombies. I feel let down.

Same here... I thought it would be 'The members of the Escapist are all zombies! are you willing to kill your Internet friends?'

That language is gobbly gook to me, but I've had no problems, I use Firefox.

I too thought this involved Zombies! Darn. Now I won't be able to team up with my brethren and eat you all friends and fight to live another day.

I too use Firefox so maybe it is just Chrome.

Why cant everybody just use IE these days?

Because IE pretty much leaves your computer open to 30% more malware. I should know, my old computer had sooo much malware before I switched to Firefox.

 

[kouriichi]

Because IE pretty much leaves your computer open to 30% more malware. I should know, my old computer had sooo much malware before I switched to Firefox.

I havent had a single byte of malware or virus on my pc. ((none that effect performance or that can be noticed anyway.))

Ive never had a single problem with my comp :/ and its been nearly 6 years now of using only IE.

I think its more about who uses the explorer then the explorer itself.