Scan your PCs

[dodgechargerfan]

and clear your internet temporary files.

I detected a virus in an image file that was linked from another site in someone's signature.

It doesn't matter who it was. It wasn't their fault. The virus is part of a hack. That hack was done to their website and NOT moparnuts.

I don't think the virus actually infects PCs that view the file. Rather, it tries to trick your browser in to going somewhere other than the location of the file.

I would rate the affect to your PCs as extremely low. This is more of a website hack than a PC infection. So, your PCs should be perfectly fine.

Still, scan 'em just to be safe.

If your anti-virus software popped up and you denied the file, then you are fine. That's what my a/v software did this morning.

If your a/v software can search for a specific infections, you are looking for: Trojan.Downloader.HTML.Agent.ok

I've cleaned out the link in the user's signature. So, you won't see the problem anymore.

Just to be clear, the infected file did not originate from moparnuts nor was it stored on moparnuts.com's server.

 

[BootHead]

and don't hotlink your signatures.... but that sounds like a rule.

virus? bring em on they can't screw my pc any worse than Norton did. I'm running AVG free with fewer issues.

Good Catch though. :2thumbs:

 

[dodgechargerfan]

Norton sucks. AVGFree rocks in comparison - and holds up against most.

I use f-secure because my ISP gives it to me for free and it's industrial strength.

hotlinking in your sig is fine if it's on your own site or a site that allows it.
In fact, from our perspective, hotlinking is more than fine because that means there's less to store here. The rub is that it uses up the bandwidth of the host where it is stored. Most don't like paying for a resource for someone else's benefit.

In reality though, we have unlimited storage here. The only downside of going crazy hosting stuff is that it might eventually trigger a hardware upgrade by the hosting provider - and those have gone oh-so-well in the past.

hotlinking stuff stored here on another site would be something we wouldn't like. That would use up bandwidth quota - something that is NOT unlimited here.

 

[69.5CUDA]

grabs machette and torch..for the mob to start..

 

[Dr.Jass]

I've been using Norton Corporate for 10 years... I've never paid for an upgrade or renewal, and have never had a virus. It's compact, unobtrusive, and doesn't use a lot of resources.

I put AVG on my other laptop to scan for viruses because it started acting strangely. Being primarily a jukebox with a semi-functioning keyboard, it's not online much, if ever, so it never had any AV software on it. Installed, updated, good to go. Scan: nothing found. So, I said what the hell and installed Norton Corporate. Hey, look--two viruses! That was the end of my AVG usage. However, if one can't get a corporate AV, I do usually recommend AVGFree since it's the best option they have.

The only "problem" with my version of Norton is that it doesn't work on XP or Vista. It's not a problem for me, since I don't run either of those OSes. I use Windows 2000 exclusively. Microsoft has never done better than W2K.

However, I agree about the normal retail versions of Norton: they suck. McAfee is even worse--probably the worst. Both are pervasive, intrusive, resource-hogging bloatware of which I encourage people to rid themselves ASAP. Symantec is still selling Norton based on a reputation that was developed by Peter Norton over a decade ago.

The version I use is 7.0, copyright 1999. I've never tried Corporate 8 or 9, so there I can't comment, but what's on my PC is every bit as streamlined as AVGFree. It updates itself for both program upgrades and virus definitions every night free of drama, and I never hear from it unless there's a problem.

Thanks for the heads-up, DCF. Good to have a solid bodyguard on duty. :clap: