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Offline Patchy

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Re: Strange Malware Alert - ATTN: Marc or John
« Reply #45 on: August 03, 2010, 05:14:44 AM »
Anyone using ABP add these: *obscurewax* *aroundpiano* and *aquaticwrap* and another other crappy URL's it may try to load.

Keep the *'s
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Re: Strange Malware Alert - ATTN: Marc or John
« Reply #46 on: August 03, 2010, 08:47:40 AM »
Quote from: Patchy on August 03, 2010, 05:14:44 AM
Anyone using ABP add these: *obscurewax* *aroundpiano* and *aquaticwrap* and another other crappy URL's it may try to load.

Keep the *'s

Thank You! That works.
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Re: Strange Malware Alert - ATTN: Marc or John
« Reply #47 on: August 03, 2010, 02:52:55 PM »
For what its worth, the problem seems to have been rectified on my computer. I updated the anti-virus software (something I've never done before) and it looks like the program handled it.
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Re: Strange Malware Alert - ATTN: Marc or John
« Reply #48 on: August 03, 2010, 04:05:48 PM »
Quote from: Patchy on August 03, 2010, 05:14:44 AM
Anyone using ABP add these: *obscurewax* *aroundpiano* and *aquaticwrap* and another other crappy URL's it may try to load.

Keep the *'s

AdBlock Chrome seems to have handled it automatically, but I manually added those anyways. Better safe than a victim of identity theft.

AdBlock is your friend. :D
Quote from: Roadgeek Adam on August 03, 2010, 02:52:55 PM
For what its worth, the problem seems to have been rectified on my computer. I updated the anti-virus software (something I've never done before) and it looks like the program handled it.

Yeah...kinda important to keep that up-to-date. If you can set it to automatically do it at a set date and time, do it. Same with scans (mine updates whenever updates are pushed out, and scans every morning at 3am.)

I haven't been getting any "waiting for somerandompieceofmaliciouscode.ru" messages, and the site seems to be running much better now (for now, at least).
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Quote from: thepriceis_J on January 13, 2016, 08:32:42 PM
People are tired of the f**kery and drama, but if we'd actually talk to each other sometimes instead of a whole bunch of private conversations with other people, it'd go a long way to perhaps fixing the problems most seem to see in the site.

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Re: Strange Malware Alert - ATTN: Marc or John
« Reply #49 on: August 03, 2010, 04:23:26 PM »
Quote from: cu2010 on August 03, 2010, 04:05:48 PM
I haven't been getting any "waiting for somerandompieceofmaliciouscode.ru" messages, and the site seems to be running much better now (for now, at least).

The Golden Gallery and Archives still get those messages.
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Re: Strange Malware Alert - ATTN: Marc or John
« Reply #50 on: August 03, 2010, 04:35:27 PM »
Quote from: cu2010 on August 03, 2010, 04:05:48 PM
AdBlock Chrome seems to have handled it automatically, but I manually added those anyways. Better safe than a victim of identity theft.

AdBlock is your friend. :D
Yeah...kinda important to keep that up-to-date. If you can set it to automatically do it at a set date and time, do it. Same with scans (mine updates whenever updates are pushed out, and scans every morning at 3am.)

I haven't been getting any "waiting for somerandompieceofmaliciouscode.ru" messages, and the site seems to be running much better now (for now, at least).


I am not the technically advanced person for my generation that most would believe. :P
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Re: Strange Malware Alert - ATTN: Marc or John
« Reply #51 on: August 03, 2010, 06:12:04 PM »
Quote from: cu2010 on August 03, 2010, 04:05:48 PM
AdBlock Chrome seems to have handled it automatically, but I manually added those anyways. Better safe than a victim of identity theft.

AdBlock is your friend. :D

ABP for Chome is slightly different to Firefox one in how it works.

I am still seeing hits on obscurewax on Golden-Gallery but obviously getting blocked with that rule.
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Re: Strange Malware Alert - ATTN: Marc or John
« Reply #52 on: August 03, 2010, 06:47:36 PM »
Marc made a few adjustments after we sustained another hit.  We will be working once again to fully rectify the site to full potential over the coming days.

We are aware that the GG, FAQ and Chat modules, as well as a few site features, are still OOS.
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Re: Strange Malware Alert - ATTN: Marc or John
« Reply #53 on: August 05, 2010, 09:40:20 PM »
By any chance, did anybody here get a program called GameVance installed on their computer?

It appears to be adware. I don't know where it came from, apparently it made its way through McAffe. I'm not saying that it definitely came from this site, I'm just checking if anybody else has found it in recent weeks.

To the best of my knowledge, I haven't had any other unwanted programs installed in the last couple of weeks, and I visit mostly the same sites each day. I don't browse much. (Again, I'm not accusing this site of giving it to me. I just want to know if anybody else got it.)
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Re: Strange Malware Alert - ATTN: Marc or John
« Reply #54 on: August 05, 2010, 10:09:18 PM »
I did not.
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Re: Strange Malware Alert - ATTN: Marc or John
« Reply #55 on: August 05, 2010, 10:12:36 PM »
Me neither. A quick Google search on it to determine where it may have come from resulted in a site with that name...and a popup message from Avast saying a trojan was blocked. Therefore, it likely came from there (or some other game site), not here.
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Quote from: thepriceis_J on January 13, 2016, 08:32:42 PM
People are tired of the f**kery and drama, but if we'd actually talk to each other sometimes instead of a whole bunch of private conversations with other people, it'd go a long way to perhaps fixing the problems most seem to see in the site.

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Re: Strange Malware Alert - ATTN: Marc or John
« Reply #56 on: August 05, 2010, 10:48:24 PM »
Ah. Thanks for the input, at least I know that G-R.net is safe to visit.
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Quote from: Bill Todman
"The sign of a good game, is when you don't have to explain it every day. The key is not simplicity, but apparent simplicity. Password looks like any idiot could have made it up, but we have 14 of our people working on that show. There is a great complexity behind the screen. It requires great work to keep it simple."

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Re: Strange Malware Alert - ATTN: Marc or John
« Reply #57 on: August 06, 2010, 10:03:31 AM »
Has anyone had problems logging in, each time I come to the website it has logged me out and sometimes won't let me log back in.
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Re: Strange Malware Alert - ATTN: Marc or John
« Reply #58 on: August 13, 2010, 11:23:24 AM »
I just hope the chat is back working again by the 27th and 31st of this month with the first runs coming up.
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Re: Strange Malware Alert - ATTN: Marc or John
« Reply #59 on: August 14, 2010, 11:05:00 AM »
Nevermind.
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