Comments | sakurabatou: DeviantArt virus

sakurabatou

DeviantArt virus

Feb 23, 2010 15:09

*sighhhh* I don't know how many people here are still on DeviantArt, but recently my computer got attacked by a nasty virus twice. Several of my friends have gotten the same one, and lost a lot of important data/had to reformat their computers. It's definitely coming from the site, and it pretends to be anti-virus software. Basically...I'm leaving ( Read more... )

wtf

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sakurabatou February 24 2010, 02:01:48 UTC

I have no idea, but it only happens when I try to view deviations, so it was safe to post that journal at least...still, it's not something DA should be letting slip under their radar. :/

xiaa February 23 2010, 20:34:13 UTC

I know what you're talking about. It's definitely one of the ads. When it pops up, no matter what you click, (ok or cancel) you still dl the virus x___X It's actually a dirty trick because you can ctrl+w out of it.

If you get the adblock addon for firefox, you shouldn't have a problem with that stupid virus ad popping up again. It keeps away those annoying ads on LJ too: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865

xiaa February 23 2010, 20:48:05 UTC

ack nm. My antivirus program just blocked a trojan for me on dA. FFF, leaving dA with you.

sakurabatou February 24 2010, 02:00:56 UTC

Yeah, I could beef up my AV software, but the principle is that DA doesn't seem to be doing anything to fix this, so I'm disappointed. :/ *sigh* thunderedge had to wipe her computer and lost everything. I'm pretty pissed myself.

However, that adblock thing is wonderful; the LJ ads have been annoying me.

prince_nothing February 23 2010, 21:11:25 UTC

I was totally on the other day. And got something like that. I was terrified, ran for my life. Poor Fontech... ;_; Did a scan immediatly aferwards and everything seems fine now.

sakurabatou February 24 2010, 02:02:35 UTC

Yeah, it's pretty bad. :/ I don't know how they haven't caught onto it yet.

prince_nothing February 24 2010, 02:52:59 UTC

Who knows, but there's always flaws. Turns out this is just a big one. *afraid of DA now*

seanmonster February 24 2010, 11:29:41 UTC

Ah, so that's why my Nortons has been going apeshit...

kuzujuk February 25 2010, 07:39:21 UTC

Oh, cruel irony. Just as I was beginning to be active over there again! D: I've seen no signs of anything, but I'm on a Mac, so who knows... DeviantArt does have its abundant issues, though. I hope they'll get on this before it spreads around too much.

sakurabatou February 27 2010, 12:04:45 UTC

if you're on a Mac, you should have nothing to worry about. The situation is complicated, I know, I'm just not thrilled with how the admins are handling things right now. I'd like to go back, especially since they launched the groups filter, but I kinda like my computer. ): Here to hoping it gets fixed soon.

kuzujuk March 1 2010, 00:12:40 UTC

Yeah, those changes that I've noticed recently (groups, deviation stacks) have been good ones, so it's a pity they're not handling the virus issue well.