Forum hacked?

Anyone else getting insane ads? It looks like a scam virus you can get on your computer, but it's only happening on this site. I have no spam-chrome extensions and a McAfee scan running, but it definitely seems like someone threw some adds into the html of the site.

FWIW, I'm not seeing anything unusual, and I'm not seeing any extra scripts running on the site either - everything is as it was according to my browser plugins.

Um.. for 1 uninstall McAfee and get AVG free or something (Not McAfee), and 2nd i am not getting any ads on the site.

Hmm, must be me. Really strange it's just this site… Youtube and the main computercraft site are fine.

From the sounds of it the problem is with you. I'd say you looked at something dodgy so Google ads is tailoring to that. Post a screenshot so we can actually see what you mean.

oeed, on 09 December 2014 - 10:46 PM said:

From the sounds of it the problem is with you. I'd say you looked at something dodgy so Google ads is tailoring to that. Post a screenshot so we can actually see what you mean.

One upping with a video. I haven't looked at anything dodgy (Maybe accidental ad clicks, but not for a while.) I also don't think a virus would target viewing one site, what would the point of that be?

EDIT:
Upload is failing. Will try with my video editing software instead of direct upload.

EDIT2:
Everything's running fine now… so strange. I will continue scanning my computer.

Moved to Forum Discussion.

Nothing appears to have changed here. If you're experiencing an abnormally large amount of advertising, your browser may have been compromised. No antivirus is perfect, and McAfee does not have the best reputation for efficacy.

Lyqyd, on 09 December 2014 - 11:30 PM said:

Moved to Forum Discussion.

Nothing appears to have changed here. If you're experiencing an abnormally large amount of advertising, your browser may have been compromised. No antivirus is perfect, and McAfee does not have the best reputation for efficacy.

McAffe removed one thing named "Artemis!DDA697B0A42A." I also manually discovered a file of viruses via monitoring Task Manager. It's weird, the ads only showed up on this site, no others.

As an aside, I was working on a website recently and was asked this by the main graphics artist: "Hey El-Tee, when did you add banner ads to the client's website? They're not going to like that!"

I said I had done no such thing. He then proceeded to show me his Macbook, and sure enough, right below the main menu on our client's in-progress website (not even released to the public yet), there was a banner ad. Straight up injected into the website via some virus/adware. I told him to disinfect his Mac. :D/>

I personally suggest something such as Avast rather than AVG. It looks a lot nicer and cleaner, AVG also tries to shove various other pieces of software down your throat, so to speak.

So does Avast, so do all of them. They have to make their money somehow.

LtKillPuppy, on 10 December 2014 - 08:13 AM said:

As an aside, I was working on a website recently and was asked this by the main graphics artist: "Hey El-Tee, when did you add banner ads to the client's website? They're not going to like that!"

I said I had done no such thing. He then proceeded to show me his Macbook, and sure enough, right below the main menu on our client's in-progress website (not even released to the public yet), there was a banner ad. Straight up injected into the website via some virus/adware. I told him to disinfect his Mac. :D/>

Yea, something like this seems fairly possible. Although, I have to say I'm surprised your colleague got a virus/something on his Mac. I don't want to sound like an ingnorant "Mac's don't get viruses 'cos blah blah", but I've honestly never had one. As cdel said, I'd install Avast if you're running Windows. It's free and it works. It's just so easy to get bloated with junk on Windows machines. I've really had to learn to avoid it. Whenever I have to use my brother's PC (which usually means fix) I am shocked by how many rubbish toolbars and homepages, etc. he has.

Basically, don't install bad stuff.

theoriginalbit, on 10 December 2014 - 09:49 AM said:

So does Avast, so do all of them. They have to make their money somehow.

Avast does get you to register once a year or so, but really, they're pretty good. I have used some really shockers though.

Any piece of hardware running any piece of software can be compromised. There's really no way around that, except perhaps super-simple programs running via old-school masked ROMs or very tightly controlled Harvard architecture systems.