Hooray Virus from guru's ads

Greenjeans, I can't tell from the information you have listed whether you were affected. An ad having a hard time loading doesn't really point to anything so let me know if something pops up but this doesn't sound related.

still got a clean pc...

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yeah just got rid of this on my comp, had to reformat. i had no virus problems until yesterday when i visited guru and got popups for the first time in a year (i've been out of the game for a bit), then all the things described in the earlier post happened to my computer. i wish i would have been more diligent in figuring out which popup it was...to prevent more people from having to reformat ><

Everytime I go to a new page on guru I get this

http://img225.imageshack.us/my.php?i...rusguruqw0.jpg

anyone else had something like this? A bit worried since it didn't show this earlier at all.

Gonna bump this one. I've been getting a few "Threat detected" messages today from GWG site (using AVG 8.0). It's apparently in Opera's cache and threat name is "Virus found Exploit". I first thought it's something with Opera, but then again, this is the only site which gives the threat message, even after a new Opera version install.

Getting several of these messages now as I browse the site in Firefox & Opera.

Yeah i keep getting "Threat Detected" with AVG 8.0. It happens everytime i open something on Guru, be it threads or the main index page. A message also appears at the top telling me the site wants to run something.

Yes I know, me as well. Looking into it as we speak.

All right, it's been removed. Thank you for the screenshots and heads up.

Looks like it's happening again. Every page I load, Avast warns me about the same trojan.

I just got hit with a trojan too, wasn't logged on so obviously one of the ads.

The address if it helps any - www.yilu777.com/down/index.htm

It was the flashing 999,999 visitor ad.

removed again, being hacked by Chinese hackers, happening to us and a lot of mmo sites.

I'm glad to see that this was taken care of; however, it was too late for me. The virus actually ended up disabling Symantic Antivirus, installing a root kit, which could not be removed by 3 different antivirus programs (according to the IT department). The solution was to reformat. I hope steps were taken to prevent this issue going forward, as Guru is of benefit to the community and I wouldn't want to see its image tarnished.

Interesting I guess this is where my 2 trojons came from as the date matches the time.This is on my older machine by the way with windows now broken and I lost most of my admin rights as well as my drives.Tarun was trying helping try to fix it.Windows need to be rebuilt.My antivrus was set to run at 4am when my sytem is off.I now let it just run.

pop up ads are bad.

http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...php?t=10309805

This is the exact reason I am now going to have to reformat. UGH!
I've tried everything imaginable to get rid of it but nothing has worked so far.
On the plus side I will be taking measures to ensure I wont lose my comp to a reformat and its getting upgraded with Vista Ultimate. But at the moment its shut down for repairs and I'm back on my old comp.
I'm sure theres only so much that can be done but is there any way to keep these virus's from coming through the site? This is the 2nd time I've had to reformat because of a spyware/virus from this site.

Hi, we've done our best to prevent them, but there are lots of ways viruses can get onto your computer and not only on our site. Its best to run a anti virus program that works well.

I do run an anti virus. I'm not a computer genius but i do know enough.

Turn off pop up ads and let only google ads only display it is like the ad on top of the board.Most comp techs say avoid a pop up ad site even isp and web designers say this avoid them.

Quote: Originally Posted by Age

Turn off pop up ads and let only google ads only display it is like the ad on top of the board.Most comp techs say avoid a pop up ad site even isp and web designers say this avoid them. You know, if you really feel that unsafe you can always uninstall the internet from your computer and go back to the telegraph.

No Age, they say don't CLICK on them or give them information, etc, etc, etc. Having them on the page isn't normally the problem.