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WTF??...Site won't come up on my laptop :(


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I was on my laptop a few minutes ago, surfing with IE. when I clicked on our site, the pc went nuts. Antivirus kicked in and said it stopped a "trojan horse". Using Avast free antivirus. After shutting down IE, I opened up Google Chrome (what I normally use) & Torch and our forum won't come up on those either.

IE on my work PC won't allow our site because of the antivirus (AVG business) either.

So now I have 2 computers using different OS, different antivirus' and BOTH kicking our site using IE.

WTF??? Anyone else having this issue? Whether using IE or anything else?

I would post a screen shot, if I knew how, and if I could get onto our site from the laptop here at home...

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Works fine from my phone too, but not laptop at all with three different browsers, since I tried it on IE and the antivirus kicked up a stink. I guess I will have to try it from my son's laptop and snap a picture of the screen if the antivirus boots it from here too :(!

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No problems with Safari, BUT, for the past several weeks, my PCs running AVG and Avast have made alerts about the URL on the Home Page to the last sponsor on the list. Is there something in the code for 4Wheelparts that the AV programs think is a Trojan Horse?

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No problems with Safari, BUT, for the past several weeks, my PCs running AVG and Avast have made alerts about the URL on the Home Page to the last sponsor on the list. Is there something in the code for 4Wheelparts that the AV programs think is a Trojan Horse?

Which page are you referring to - the actual sponsors page or the news update about them being a sponsor? I checked the sponsor page and there is nothing there but links and images. No funny business embedded.

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Still checking the logs and virus scan results. Only AVG is showing anything and it is java obfuscation which is not a virus - it's a well known false positive that AVG throws as obfuscation is a way of "encrypting" code.

Not sure what Avast is saying - it's hard for me to diagnose without any detailed information from the virus scanner. I recommend that anyone experiencing issues run updates on their antivirus software, Windows computer, and Java installations as this is likely in part due to out of date software.

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Here is a screen shot of what my virus scan caught just as I logged into the site this evening.

and it isn't the first time it has happened.

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What browser, Clarence, Internet Explorer? And with yet ANOTHER antivirus (MSE)...

Avast! totally shut down the site on mine when I got an alert (same as what Clarence got, iirc), so I could post any sort of screen shot.

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Doesn't say anything on your picture about it being from the server.

...And your point is?

This doesn't seem to be isolated to one single antivirus software coming up with alerts, or one single person getting such an alert. And why is it ONLY happening from THIS site? If I got this alert on my very first visit to our site, I would probably never come back...

this is happening FAR too often it seems, has has been brought up before...

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...And your point is?

This doesn't seem to be isolated to one single antivirus software coming up with alerts, or one single person getting such an alert. And why is it ONLY happening from THIS site? If I got this alert on my very first visit to our site, I would probably never come back...

this is happening FAR too often it seems, has has been brought up before...

It can be so many things and might have nothing to do with this site, from the info on the picture it look as if the computer is infected before visiting this web site, You do not get a Trojan from a web site it has to be downloaded.

I am not accusing anyone that is having a virus issue on their computer but 99% of viruses are found from downloading porn.

I know some people are using work computers, and if you go to untrusted web sites looking up info you can also get a virus, but the second biggest way to get a virus is email and work computers or any computer used for work usually get a ton of junk and garbage email.

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I am at a loss here guys. I have visited the website and the forum on Windows computers and Mac computers running IE, Chrome, Safari, and Firefox - Sophos AV, Microsoft Security Essentials, and McAfee - none of my computers indicate anything.

I have run numerous virus scans on the server myself, I have requested virus scans from the company that maintains the physical server infrastructure, all come back clean.

Basically the malware that Clarence is reporting "Sirefef" is a trojan horse which could have come from anywhere. It works by hijacking your browser and sending false positives from any given website (for some reason it is choosing this one). It sends data through to pay-per-click schemes for the people who control it - more info: http://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/threat/encyclopedia/entry.aspx?Name=Win32%2fSirefef

I agree that it is odd that it keeps popping up on this site; however, I cannot find any infections on the server nor can I get any of my computers / browser / AV combinations to trigger the same error. It is likely that the virus has been picked up elsewhere on the web and has embedded itself on your machines.

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