Strange Malware Alert - ATTN: Marc or John

[Roadgeek Adam]

Both my desktop and laptop are giving me an attention that the site is having problems with malware and I shouldn't proceed. I grabbed the text Chrome gave me:

The website at www.golden-road.net contains elements from the site pantscow.ru, which appears to host malware – software that can hurt your computer or otherwise operate without your consent. Just visiting a site that contains malware can infect your computer.
For detailed information about the problems with these elements, visit the Google Safe Browsing diagnostic page for pantscow.ru.

I know its not a Chrome thing because I was on Firefox on the laptop and an off-browser program caught the attention. Could this be looked into? Its causing headaches since the malware alert thing is also slowing down the computers.

[tpirfan28]

I can confirm this is loading at the bottom of every page.

[Wayoshi]

Not mine at all.

And my Firefox has AdBlock Plus.

EDIT: Viewing on IE, my Norton said an attack was blocked. So...be careful!

[ClockGameJohn]

I am aware of the problem and we are working to rectify this situation currently.

Thanks to those who have brought it to our attention.

[JohnHolder]

It happened to me, too. My WebRoot software zapped it successfully.

[Roadgeek Adam]

Dunno if you got it or not, but its still warning me in.

[Marc]

All warnings should now be gone...let me know if you see otherwise.

I hope that you all have a GREAT Friday night...I know I did.

[Roadgeek Adam]

All warnings should now be gone...let me know if you see otherwise.

I hope that you all have a GREAT Friday night...I know I did.

Nope! Thanks Marc and John, it was beginning to really annoy me.

[Roadgeek Adam]

Actually also - the CHAT tab has now been shrunk and the name is gone (mixed with Logout)

[therealcu2010]

Seems to be fine now. I could not load the page at all because Avast flagged it, but there seem to be no issues now.

There does appear, however, to be a couple slight issues with the forum layout...the width of the actual text in posts appears to be wider than usual, causing avatars to be displayed with a scrollbar...and the "chat" link in the navigation bar at the top is weird. I don't know if some coding got broken or what...but it appears as if the entire left column is broken somewhat.

[Chief-O]

Maybe my using a Mac may have to do with it, but I've noticed absolutely nothing odd.

[therealcu2010]

Another note- the FAQ and Golden Gallery are still giving me malware warnings, and the "chat" link appears to be broken altogether (clicking on the tiny box left just redirects to the main page).

The timestamps also appear to be behind one hour.

[compdude512]

There does appear, however, to be a couple slight issues with the forum layout...the width of the actual text in posts appears to be wider than usual, causing avatars to be displayed with a scrollbar...and the "chat" link in the navigation bar at the top is weird. I don't know if some coding got broken or what...but it appears as if the entire left column is broken somewhat.

This is happening for me, too.  No worries, though--at least John has the main part of the site running smoothly, which is fine by me.

Apparently, this whole thing is caused by one extra line of Javascript in the index.php file that controls the forum.  It's amazing how much trouble one line of code can cause!

I had something that just came to me off the top of my head.  Everyone should probably change their passwords if they were logged in during the time the site was hijacked.  I'm not sure if that malicious code compromised anyone's account security, but you can never be too safe!

Tyler

[Marc]

Things we're working on this weekend...

- Avatar sizing.
- Chat room.
- Removing whatever is infected in Gallary and FAQ.
- Ignore user

You may self-adjust your forum time in Profile-->Look & Layout Settings.  Simply click on Auto Detect.

[Marc]

Ignore user -- check.