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Troglodyte



Joined: 06 Dec 2009

PostPosted: Sat Feb 08, 2014 3:17 pm    Post subject: Malware on the forum? Reply with quote

Today I've received a lot of malware notices while trying to view some threads on this forum. Chrome is showing the following message:

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Danger: Malware Ahead!

Google Chrome has blocked access to this page on forums.eslcafe.com.

Content from www.ajarnforum.net, a known malware distributor, has been inserted into this web page. Visiting this page now is very likely to infect your computer with malware.
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For example, it shows up on the link to the following thread.
http://forums.eslcafe.com/korea/viewtopic.php?t=231793
(Mailing luggage home)

Has anyone else seen this? What on the forum is potentially linking to this malware site? Is it one of the ads? Or someone's avatar?
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Troglodyte



Joined: 06 Dec 2009

PostPosted: Sat Feb 08, 2014 3:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

After checking through a bunch of threads, it seems that all (or all the ones that I checked) have a reply from one particular member of the forum (ttompatz). His profile page is also leading to the malware warning. Could it be the person's avatar that's causing the warning?
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Hokie21



Joined: 01 Mar 2011

PostPosted: Sat Feb 08, 2014 7:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I got that as well when I attempted to open the thread about pensions.
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ttompatz



Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea

PostPosted: Sat Feb 08, 2014 9:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It was the site that hosted the avatar that caused the problem and the avatar has been deleted.

Problem solved.

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