[VirtualMan]

I've had 3 or 4 Javascript exploits detected and blocked by my Avast program in the last few days including one just now.

 

[Head Injury]

Coincidentally, I just installed Ubuntu 9.10 as a second OS. It's fun to play around in, but no Foobar makes me sad and a terrible college internet connection makes the installing of everything I need slow.

Anyway, I'm on W7 95% of the time (previously 100%) with Chrome and Avira AV and no problems yet. Is it any coincidence that I'm using AdBlock?

 

[Leavenfish]

I've had several warning from my anti-virus in just the past few days...only when I am on HeadFi.

 

[KramitDfrog]

Windows 7 and Chrome, no issues here. AV is Sophos.

I've just scanned both a forum page and the main page using AVG online virus checker, and no issues were found..

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EDIT:
Actually, if there is an exploit, it's likely to be browser specific. Can anyone who believes they've had an issue please post their operating system and browser versions?

 

[Dragunov-21]

Has anyone who's been hit managed to note down what linked ads were displaying at the time?

I'd imagine that's a strong suspect, and forwarding it to the Admins would probably be helpful.

 

[ethan961]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Head Injury /img/forum/go_quote.gif Coincidentally, I just installed Ubuntu 9.10 as a second OS. It's fun to play around in, but no Foobar makes me sad and a terrible college internet connection makes the installing of everything I need slow. Anyway, I'm on W7 95% of the time (previously 100%) with Chrome and Avira AV and no problems yet. Is it any coincidence that I'm using AdBlock?

Try Quod Libet, you might like it. It's fairly similar to Foobar2000.

I'm on FF 3.6.3 FWIW.

 

[shiaulou]

My scanner detected & blocked a Trojan just now. Running Windows 7 with Avast and Firefox 3.6.3. The link said the source was some url from google analytics.

 

[Guidostrunk]

If i remember correctly , the ad i had seen at the time had something to do with Skull candy and some subwoofer amp thing that there selling with there phones. I dunno.

 

[Eggroll]

Quote:

Originally Posted by shiaulou /img/forum/go_quote.gif My scanner detected & blocked a Trojan just now. Running Windows 7 with Avast and Firefox 3.6.3. The link said the source was some url from google analytics.

The same thing happened to me about 2 hrs ago. My Norton 360 blocked the same Trojan attack.

 

[lmf22]

NOD32 blocked a Trojan when I logged on tonight. Using Windows 7 and Firefox 3.6.3.
Don't know if this will help the admins, but according to NOD32's quarantine log:

Object name: (google.analytics.com/waolovbichmz.info/kav/KAV4) ending with ".html"

Size 10843

Reason: JS/Exploit.Agent.NBA trojan

 

[KramitDfrog]

It appears to be an issue with the ad providers. (Probably not google..)

Here is a google employee explaining the issue:
why does google analytics keep giving me trojans. - Google Analytics Help

And here is a link to an Avast blog on the subject (linked by the above article):
avast! blog » Ads poisoning – JSrontexi

 

[fenixdown110]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Head Injury /img/forum/go_quote.gif Coincidentally, I just installed Ubuntu 9.10 as a second OS. It's fun to play around in, but no Foobar makes me sad and a terrible college internet connection makes the installing of everything I need slow. Anyway, I'm on W7 95% of the time (previously 100%) with Chrome and Avira AV and no problems yet. Is it any coincidence that I'm using AdBlock?

I'm on Ad Blocker as well as Adblock Plus to cover all ads. No attacks here either.

 

[paulypaul]

i had firefox freeze several times with regards to the flash ads, forget what the warning was, something to do with flash script. hasn't done it for a while.
Running a mac so no antivirus.

 

[johnfl]

two trojan packers blocked 2 hours ago..on my pc

4/27/2010 1:27:28 AMDetected: HEUR:Trojan.Script.IframerFirefoxhttp://adnet.media.prananc.com/b/jx/...=1&t=s//JSPack



4/27/2010 1:27:28 AMDenied: HEUR:Trojan.Script.IframerFirefoxhttp://adnet.media.prananc.com/b/jx/...=1&t=s//JSPack

 

[rsuffix]

It's probably an infected ad. They'll have to track which one and get it taken off of their rotation.

Chrome is pretty much blocked off from anything like that getting to it, at least at the moment, it's a very secure browser. Not too sure about Firefox, but with ad blockers it will stop them loading and be fine. Chrome's ad blockers do NOT stop the ads loading, just from displaying, but Chrome is secure enough that it shouldn't be a problem.

Be careful if you're using IE, especially an older version.

Macs / Linux probably won't have any problems. If you're running Windows, get an AV. Microsoft Security Essentials / Avast are recommended free ones.