DeviousDave

Guys/Mods/whoever-

Since last night I have been getting trojan horse infection warnings from my virus software. It started just with the "My forums" page, then the 1/2A forum and now even the page that opened to write this thread. I don't think it's my software because it's a specific trojan they are finding and I have never had this problem anywhere else.

I looked around to find a contact button to get ahold of some IT/Admin Weenie types to let them know there might be a problem but didn't find anything..

fizzwater2

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I've been getting them, too.

d_bodary

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I've been getting them also. Not sure which sites, did'nt pay enough attention i guess.

forsakenrider

Me too, on this site! uh oh!

DeviousDave

Now it's every page but the main home page.

DeviousDave

Live Wire

I get it right after I logg on to RCU home page and every thing after. Whats interesting, I logged off RCU and left for a while! when I came back I wasl logged on already logged back in
Have you noticed all the scamming on the RCU Vidio forum.

Live Wire

OH
Thought I would mention I just won a $1000 gift card to Wally World, a lap top Pc and $1500.00 in cash. Yes, Still filling out all the forms[:@]

hllywdb

Yep,
My Trend Micro is picking them up too. Only this site.

R/C Phile

No such issues here. The thing about trojans is that they "disguise" themselves (Hence the name). Long and short is that you probably picked-up elsewhere and it's manifesting itself on a site you regularly visit as part of the charade..

Here's a pretty surefire way to gert rid of it and the other(s) you might have: http://download.cnet.com/Advanced-Sy...-10407614.html

(Advanced System Care)

I had similar issues on a really high powered laptop that had turned into an absolute dog under the "Watchful" eye of Norton and Mcaffee. I ran Advanced system care, it found over 10,000 instances of spyware / tracking cookies / you name the parasite bogging me down. I also used MSConfig (Built into windows) to clear the start sequence of all unnessary crap such as additional search bars on the browser and VOILA: The smoking fast PC returned..

ASC is a free download and it rocks, it also has useful stuff like smart defrag / registry clean / reset highjacked settings and other goodies.

ocelot31454

So far I haven't had this problem with R/C U but I run anti spywear about every 3-4 days. I have to agree that you have probably picked it up from another modeling web site. I runAvast, Ad-wear, CCCleanerand Malware byteswhich normally catches everything including a few that the famed Norton and McAfee doesn't.
When running maintance do not forget to run the windows built-in "Clean Disk" program. A lot of people forget this little windows tool and as a result wind up with a real sluggish computer.

Andrew

I had two hits yesterday by Microsoft Security Essentials, but none today. Apparently it's an injection script buried in some of the HTML. It may have been carried in via some of the rotating advertising by some of the vendors.

Looks to be clean now.

DeviousDave

It's back.....

BMatthews

The site admins are onto the problem and working on it as this is being typed. 

It looks like it's not RCU itself but one of the supporter sites that's been hacked and the links to the site at RCU are somehow extending the infection.

alcarafa

[:@][:@][:@]

BMatthews

It's only on the home page as well.  If you go directly into the forums then it doesn't seem to be happening.  At least not at this point.

dckrsn

On opening the 1/2a forum directly, I recieved a
note that a trojan virus had been detected and
quarentined by McAfee. Fingers crossed.
Bob

Big Al-RCU

Haven't seen it here, Fingers crossed also.
al

DeviousDave

Same here...

proptop

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Does it matter if you block the banner ads? (would that make any difference? )

I have them blocked, and so far / knock on wood, have had no warnings...(probably just jinxed myself )

DeviousDave

For me it's on every page BUT the home page...


Ain't technology wonderful?

For you guys who aren't running AV software, I'm running a free copy of Avast Antivirus. It seems to work well and isn't too terribly intrusive. Download and install a copy of this software, run it and schedule a boot up session, it'll clean your computer up. Then get Spybot and do the same, and maybe go get Malware Bytes for good measure.

ocelot31454

From experiance I don't use "Spybot" any more than I have to. For some reason their tech support can't explain, the program tends to report quite a few programs including several windows programs as spyware. I got tired of telling Spybot to ignore them so I switched to Ad-Aware. Both do good jobs otherwise and yes there are a few things that Spybot catches that Ad-ware doesn't but CCCleaner and Malware Bytes take care of those.
Since this thread started I have not had any problems anywhere on RCU.