Bikeradar gave me a virus.

antfly
antfly Posts: 3,276
edited March 2011 in The bottom bracket
I clicked on "Rapha Hell of The North" in the forum and a fake anti-virus started popping up all over the place and talking to me. I was very careful not to click anything and managed to get rid of it but be careful, it's a bastard.
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  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    blame wiggle
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  • Mr Dog
    Mr Dog Posts: 643
    be warned....
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  • freehub
    freehub Posts: 4,257
    O RLY?
  • Matt the Tester
    Matt the Tester Posts: 1,261
    freehub wrote:
    O RLY?
    well he wouldnt say it otherwise would he...?

    thanks for the warning ANT
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  • freehub
    freehub Posts: 4,257
    I dunno, because there actually is nothing of the sort in that thread anyway. His computer is probably infected from somewhere else.
  • markos1963
    markos1963 Posts: 3,724
    Pc or Mac? :wink:
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  • mattsaw
    mattsaw Posts: 907
    It sounds like you're infected with spyware, try running AdAware
    http://www.lavasoft.com/products/ad_aware_free.php
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  • gmb
    gmb Posts: 456
    markos1963 wrote:
    Pc or Mac? :wink:

    PC of course............ :lol:
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  • guinea
    guinea Posts: 1,177
    This is common. Hasn't happened to me here, but I've regularly experienced it on podiumcafe.

    It's caused by a nasty advert with a payload that hijacks your browser. Since they're not hosted and chosen by the site's owners they can't effectively police them. Very rarely do they do anything than make it look like you have been infected. If you have been affected then you'll know about it pretty fast.

    Malwarebytes will fix it if you've been infected. If you need piece of mind, run it anyway.
  • antfly
    antfly Posts: 3,276
    I was very definitely infected, no doubt about that. I did use malawarebytes, the pc was completely unuseable until I did and it found plenty. Just to confirm it was bikeradar I get this message in my history.
    "reported insecure browsing: navigation blocked."
    http://www.bikeradar.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1680336

    I would advise strongly against clicking that link above, just in case. In fact I have left a number off the end so no-one clicks it unwittingly.
    Edit: I'm still infected, this is the worst virus ever.
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  • Bunneh
    Bunneh Posts: 1,329
    I'm running Noscript, AdBlock and Flash Block plugs in on Firefox. The vast majority of viruses/trojans etc seem to come from adverts and even reputable sites can sometimes get them inbedded.

    Avast seems to clean most problems out, so might be worth running that if you don't have an AV running.
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  • antfly
    antfly Posts: 3,276
    Thanks for the tip, this was a full on virus that got into my system drivers and was eventually removed by Kapersky TDSSKiller. Of course I have anti-virus but they seem to be useless against these things. Even after I ran malawarebytes and removed the phoney anti-virus It stopped me downloading things and running opera so I could only use IE and firefox which it had control of. :evil:
    Wasted one and a half days gettting rid of the thing,
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  • antlaff
    antlaff Posts: 583
    edited March 2011
    subtle but nice
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  • antfly
    antfly Posts: 3,276
    I think you got the wrong thread.
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  • antlaff
    antlaff Posts: 583
    antfly wrote:
    I think you got the wrong thread.

    D'oh

    totally - lesson 1- do not have 2 screens open again!!
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  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,673
    PM me the topic that supposedly caused your problems.
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  • guinea
    guinea Posts: 1,177
    nicklouse wrote:
    PM me the topic that supposedly caused your problems.

    That will not help. It comes in one of the ads. It's nothing hosted on bikeradar's site.

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