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Da Nag



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PostPosted: Sat Jun 15, 2013 5:48 pm    Post subject: "Malware" warnings Reply with quote

Some of you running Chrome may have seen "malware warnings" when visiting us earlier today.

The bad news: The warnings were accurate. Our server was compromised, and for a brief period of time malware could potentially have been served up to anyone visiting. I say potentially, as it would have required action on your part beyond visiting us to get infected, i.e. clicking on a popup or link when prompted. Based on server logs I took a peek at, the window when this could have happened was less than an hour this afternoon.

The good news: It was a known server exploit, and it was easy to clean up. In addition to removing all the nasty bits, updates were applied that address the vulnerability.

Until next time, of course...keep your shields up.

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PostPosted: Sat Jun 15, 2013 5:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks so much for all the work you guys do to keep this great site going
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 15, 2013 7:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

What was it and how would we know? Is there anything we should do?

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Da Nag



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PostPosted: Sat Jun 15, 2013 8:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

journey on wrote:
What was it and how would we know? Is there anything we should do?


Yup - you should run Chrome or Firefox, both of which monitor known virus/malware sites and will warn you whenever a site attempts to deliver content from them. Chrome users saw the following during the brief period this morning, Firefox users would have seen something similar:



As to what it was - I honestly don't know. All I do know, is that visitors here could have been redirected to the site mentioned in the warning image above while we were compromised. What that site may or may not have attempted to deliver, is anyone's guess.

If you're on Windows and saw something odd while visiting us earlier today - it wouldn't be a bad idea to run a virus and/or malware scan. Mac/Linux - do whatever you wish, but I wouldn't lose any sleep over it.
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 15, 2013 10:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have a 13 year old email address (as that is the age of my company) and get around 20,000 spam emails per month. 13,000+ are blocked before they reach my inbox, the rest I delete manually, sometimes 200+ per day. sometimes I'll walk away from my desk for 10-12 minutes, and come back to 1 per minute popping in there.

when I think about spammers, hackers, and other ill-intent computer nerds......





the amount of effort these folks put into internet-negative activity could yield amazing results if redirected to something positive.

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PostPosted: Sun Jun 16, 2013 6:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

May be seeing some of the results. Got emails from two brats with the same strange link in it. Tom McHugh and Patrick Campbell, I think you got hit. Mail to a distribution list of which I was part.

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PostPosted: Sun Jun 16, 2013 7:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I saw the warning.

Thanks guys for taking good care of us..

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PostPosted: Sun Jun 16, 2013 9:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

How about the iPad browsers? Although I routinely don't open links or attachments I don't know about.
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 16, 2013 12:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thank you for taking care of this so quickly!
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 16, 2013 12:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Da Nag,
Does that mean I am not going to get the $1,000,000 from Nigeria?





PS, nice work cleaning things up so fast and being aware, Thanks
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 16, 2013 1:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

colbysmith wrote:
How about the iPad browsers?


Can't saw with certainty, but chances are extremely slim Android/iOS devices would have been targeted with this type of exploit.
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 16, 2013 4:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Da Nag wrote:

Can't saw with certainty...


Use a Stihl and keep fresh gas in it.

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Da Nag



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PostPosted: Sun Jun 16, 2013 4:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

TyBoo wrote:
Use a Stihl and keep fresh gas in it.


Hmmm...I think that's a battle we've not had here yet. We all know singles, Scottys, Fords, Macs/Linux, Android and Kubotas are the right choice - but I don't think we've come to a conclusion when it comes to power equipment.

Fortunately, I've both a Stihl and a Husky - so I'll sit back on the sidelines, knowing I'll win either way.
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 16, 2013 8:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ok, I'm good. I just happen to have a Stihl, and it does have gas in it! Wink
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 17, 2013 10:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

just fyi guys, I just logged in at 7:30 this morning and right after logging in I received the chrome-malware warning.
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