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Re: Strange Malware Alert - ATTN: Marc or John
« Reply #30 on: August 01, 2010, 08:02:17 PM »
Looks like the virus is still present in the archives too.
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Re: Strange Malware Alert - ATTN: Marc or John
« Reply #31 on: August 02, 2010, 02:56:57 PM »
Got a new one.  Same locations as the previous ones.

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Re: Strange Malware Alert - ATTN: Marc or John
« Reply #32 on: August 02, 2010, 05:06:36 PM »
Has the site gotten slow for anyone else as of this post?

I'm only asking because I keep getting "waiting for obscurewax.ru"
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Re: Strange Malware Alert - ATTN: Marc or John
« Reply #33 on: August 02, 2010, 05:14:39 PM »
It has for me. I'm also seeing "obscurewax.ru."

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Re: Strange Malware Alert - ATTN: Marc or John
« Reply #34 on: August 02, 2010, 05:31:55 PM »
Same for me, though I'm not getting any virus warnings from Avast (likely due to running Chrome + Adblock, which is likely preventing whatever it is from loading)...but I am getting the "waiting for obscurewax.ru" message from Chrome...

Might not be a terrible idea to pull the site offline for a few days until this mess is sorted out...I remember a similar problem happening at another SMF-based forum I frequent, and it went down for a few days to get everything sorted out and had no problems afterwards.
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Re: Strange Malware Alert - ATTN: Marc or John
« Reply #35 on: August 02, 2010, 05:44:01 PM »
Seeing it here [OSX/Firefox]. Seems to kind of bind up the page loading.

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Re: Strange Malware Alert - ATTN: Marc or John
« Reply #36 on: August 02, 2010, 06:19:22 PM »
Every time I load a page here, it's still trying to load something from obscurewax. It does seem to be slowing down loading. Norton has been blocking it for me.
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Re: Strange Malware Alert - ATTN: Marc or John
« Reply #37 on: August 02, 2010, 06:38:02 PM »
obscurewax and aroundpiano have both been appearing as loading for me. I've also received numerous alerts from AVG as well as Windows Defender telling me that my computer has been infected.

My best advice would be to stay away from the site for a while guys. I think Marc and CGJ need to get rid of these linkings before anyone really comes here anymore.

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Re: Strange Malware Alert - ATTN: Marc or John
« Reply #38 on: August 02, 2010, 08:07:56 PM »
I'm getting the same requests for obscurewax.ru.

Marc & John -- does the page refer to any *.js files? You may be suffering from a script injection of some sort.
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Re: Strange Malware Alert - ATTN: Marc or John
« Reply #39 on: August 02, 2010, 08:32:40 PM »
Hate to say the fact that my computer has been affected pretty bad. I thought it was a Facebook virus, but I guess not.

1) Pogo.com games refuse to work for me now
2) Mouse is corrupted.
3) Strange problems working with Chrome.
4) mIRC doesn't boot

Dunno what to do, the anti-virus won't run (nor do I know how). This stinks
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Re: Strange Malware Alert - ATTN: Marc or John
« Reply #40 on: August 02, 2010, 10:00:50 PM »
I'm getting the same requests for obscurewax.ru.

Marc & John -- does the page refer to any *.js files? You may be suffering from a script injection of some sort.

Whatever problem the *.ru sites are causing is likely being executed in Java in at least some way, shape, or form. Java 6.0's splash screen popped up for me at the first (and so far, only the first) occurrence of obscurewax.ru.

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Re: Strange Malware Alert - ATTN: Marc or John
« Reply #41 on: August 02, 2010, 10:09:01 PM »
I just got a (mercifully blocked) hit from "aroundpiano.ru"
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Re: Strange Malware Alert - ATTN: Marc or John
« Reply #42 on: August 02, 2010, 10:32:29 PM »
...I got aroundpiano - *not* blocked - on the other computer just now. The Java splash screen came up, at which point I did a quick pull of the ethernet cable followed by a shut down. Currently offline doing scans and cleanup.

Double word score: In the process of posting that, I also got obscurewax.
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Re: Strange Malware Alert - ATTN: Marc or John
« Reply #43 on: August 02, 2010, 11:05:25 PM »
obscurewax appears to no longer be trying to load, at least for me (and the site as a whole is working much better).

...though, I've had nothing flagged on me today...it actually kinda worries me (though I think it's just because I'm running Chrome with Adblock, which is keeping whatever obscurewax.ru was from loading, meaning Avast never got to flag it because Adblock took care of it first...either way, Avast never flagged the site and neither Avast nor Malwarebytes found anything when I ran scans earlier, not to mention my computer still seems to be working fine, so I think I'm okay...)

Hopefully this mess gets straightened out before too much major damage is done...
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Re: Strange Malware Alert - ATTN: Marc or John
« Reply #44 on: August 02, 2010, 11:20:12 PM »
Well, if obscurewax is no longer popping up, but another site is, it is definitely a script injection.
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