Malware warning in thread

Getting a malware warning in this thread:
http://www.assemblergames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=26858

I assume someones personal website got hacked and made it onto googles blacklist. They probably have a sig or something linking to that domain.

Below is warning:

 

None of the images are from aerolgroup.com and none of the links in signatures are either

It appears to be an image someone posted but isn't showing up. Ctrl + F in source found

http://www.aerolgroup.com/image/amro_product/electrical_contact_cleaner.jpg

 

Yes they are.

Specifically this post: http://www.assemblergames.com/forums/showpost.php?p=436023&postcount=15

 

:X

 

I'm getting the exact same screen as Bad_Ad84:

 

I can assure you its that post. Your browser just doesnt seem to give a "image doesnt exist" picture for dead links.

 

Which browser do you think Cyantist is using? IE?

 

Firefox. I'm contemplating making the jump to Chrome because firefox is too goddamn glitchy now. Too many addons to leave behind that probably wont work on chrome.

 

Firefox is the AVG of browsers, when it first came out it was the bollocks, now it's just a big, lumpen, bloated monster

Chrome all the way, failing that try Opera but that's now not as good as it once was.

 

I still use both (Firefox and AVG) and have no trouble with either :x

 

Then why is it I can see AVG loaded in your notification area?

I think it would be helpful if people stated what malware software they use, rather than just saying "me too".

Incidentally, it's very unlikely that a JPEG image is going to be malware! Last time I checked, pictures don't run code ;-) Perhaps it's time for new anti-malware software?

 

Sadly yes, I do have AVG installed but the majority of its features are turned off because it tries to kill everything and anything on your machine that it doesn't understand or keeps telling you that its a trojan and either limits its functionality or just plain stops it from running.

Anyway it's not the anti-virus software that flags the malware malarkey, it's the Google Chrome browser itself. If you had Norton, Macafee or Kaspersky etc installed then it would still flag up.

 

Pictures don't run code.. yet 0.o!

On a more serious note, AVG is awful, almost as bad as NortonandMcAfee. I use Avast! on my Windows and it seems to do the job and work alright. I hear Malware Bytes is fantastic, but haven't used it. The best virus protection there is is your brain, by knowing what and what not to download.

Oh and, have a shit computer or a virtual machine for opening up suspicious files.

 

1. If you look at the actual warning we posted, it quite clearly explains why the message is popping up - its not directly the picture its complaining about, just that the domain is known to distribute malware

2. Jpg malware exists and was around a few years ago. The files dont need to be executable themselves, its problems in the application reading them that leads to running code.

3. the error is nothing to do with anti malware software, chrome and firefox (at least used to) uses google database of known malware distribution sites.

 

1. aerolgroup.com is quite clearly a company website. Your assumption that a personal website got hacked is, therefore, wrong.

2. Yes there are JPEG exploits, but for the most part, they're either extremely rare or have been patched. Hence why I said very unlikely, not impossible.

3. Do you still see it? Because I don't see it in IE, Firefox or Chrome. If you still see it, then it IS your malware software! Either way, it didn't do it for me in IE or Firefox, and I don't use Chrome because it is shite - and yes, these false positives that keep happening with Google are very annoying.

 

its build into chrome (and firefox).

Chrome: http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?answer=99020

firefox: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/phishing-protection/

You just clearly have it disabled, its not malware software.

and my assumption was before i clicked the "allow" button to look at the page and see it was a link to a picture. The only thing that was wrong, was that it was someones personal website. Personal or company, its still been hacked at some point in the past to distribute malware - thats why its flagged with google.

been there, done that with cleaning sites post hack and getting sites removed from googles db.

 

I literally installed Chrome just now to see whether I see this warning. All default options.

Chrome and IE show the no picture image, Firefox shows nothing lol.

 

I'm using google sync, which means if I have activated that option sometime in my past, it will be with me when I install new version.

Dont know if its on or off by default, but the fact remains its the browser and not anti malware software.

 

Technically speaking, if the browser doesn't have that option by default, it's anti-malware software - albeit an option/plugin within Chrome ;-)

Whilst Chrome says aerolgroup.com may harm my computer with a Google search, it's doing nothing about the link other than showing a picture missing thing. Ah wait, now I've Googled it, it comes up with it. Lmao, see? Chrome sucks!

 

FireFox has had a "feature" like that for a while now. I haven't look into how they determine what website has malware or even if they bother to verify the malware's existence on said website but it seems like they get a report and if it doesn't sound like total bullshit (what is that you say? Fox News has malware? I know their reporting sucks but...) they add it to some list that gets distributed.

I ignore the warning 9 times out of 10 for the fact that I've never seen anything malicious on websites reported as such.

Though I too have contemplated switching to Chrome. Maybe its the extensions slowing down a cold load, maybe its the browser. Either way its annoying.