virus on Stratics....

[Bazer]

while reading a few threads this little baby poped up, first time ive seen on here....

Danger: AVG Active Surf-Shield has detected active threats on this page and has blocked access for your protection.
The page you are trying to access has been identified as a known exploit, phishing, or social engineering web site and therefore has been blocked for your safety. Without protection, such as that in the AVG Security Toolbar and AVG, your computer is at risk of being compromised, corrupted or having your identity stolen. Please follow one of the suggestions below to continue.

URL: xxx
Name: Virus identified Exploit.Aurora

Danger: AVG Active Surf-Shield has detected active threats on this page and has blocked access for your protection.
The page you are trying to access has bee identified as a known exploit, phishing, or social engineering web site and therefore has been blocked for your safety. Without protection, such as that in the AVG Security Toolbar and AVG, your computer is at risk of being compromised, corrupted or having your identity stolen. Please follow one of the suggestions below to continue.

URL: xxx
Name: Virus identified Exploit.Aurora

 

[Mairut]

Ewww!... Aurora virus!

I hope I don't get it from stratics I shouldn't, because of anti-virus/firewall, but you never know.

 

[Nexus]

while reading a few threads this little baby poped up, first time ive seen on here....

Danger: AVG Active Surf-Shield has detected active threats on this page and has blocked access for your protection.
The page you are trying to access has been identified as a known exploit, phishing, or social engineering web site and therefore has been blocked for your safety. Without protection, such as that in the AVG Security Toolbar and AVG, your computer is at risk of being compromised, corrupted or having your identity stolen. Please follow one of the suggestions below to continue.

URL: xxx
Name: Virus identified Exploit.Aurora

Danger: AVG Active Surf-Shield has detected active threats on this page and has blocked access for your protection.
The page you are trying to access has bee identified as a known exploit, phishing, or social engineering web site and therefore has been blocked for your safety. Without protection, such as that in the AVG Security Toolbar and AVG, your computer is at risk of being compromised, corrupted or having your identity stolen. Please follow one of the suggestions below to continue.

URL: xxx
Name: Virus identified Exploit.Aurora

So I'm assuming you are on Windows using IE6 IE7 or IE8? Since the Aurora Exploit only targeted those browsers?

Actually if you are using XP there is no way to close the security hole. Nice reason to up grade to a more Secure OS isn't it.

 

[Bazer]

using firefox and windows vista

 

[Lord Chaos]

Nice reason to up grade to a more Secure OS isn't it.

And all around more ****ty OS.

 

[Jandruz]

Same problem here. Windows 7 and firefox made firefox crash. I used IE, and recieved the exploit.aurora warning...

boo!

 

[Lord Chaos]

while reading a few threads this little baby poped up, first time ive seen on here....

Danger: AVG Active Surf-Shield has detected active threats on this page and has blocked access for your protection.
The page you are trying to access has been identified as a known exploit, phishing, or social engineering web site and therefore has been blocked for your safety. Without protection, such as that in the AVG Security Toolbar and AVG, your computer is at risk of being compromised, corrupted or having your identity stolen. Please follow one of the suggestions below to continue.

URL: xxx
Name: Virus identified Exploit.Aurora

Danger: AVG Active Surf-Shield has detected active threats on this page and has blocked access for your protection.
The page you are trying to access has bee identified as a known exploit, phishing, or social engineering web site and therefore has been blocked for your safety. Without protection, such as that in the AVG Security Toolbar and AVG, your computer is at risk of being compromised, corrupted or having your identity stolen. Please follow one of the suggestions below to continue.

URL: xxx
Name: Virus identified Exploit.Aurora

This wouldn't be the first time Stratics has been infected with a virus and distributed virus through downloads, ads and even the main pages. :/

 

[Restroom Cowboy]

This wouldn't be the first time Stratics has been infected with a virus and distributed virus through downloads, ads and even the main pages. :/

TRUTH!

 

[Nexus]

And all around more ****ty OS.

Really? that's odd considering about 5 of the top ten most reliable operating systems are Linux, at least according to Netcraft's studies. 89.2% of all supercomputers run a Linux based OS, Google runs almost their entire infrastructure on Linux, Microsoft's DNS Servers run on Linux.

Yea junk OS there.....

Linux isn't what it was 5 years ago, it's fleshing out into a very usable operating system.

 

[Lynk]

Really? that's odd considering about 5 of the top ten most reliable operating systems are Linux, at least according to Netcraft's studies. 89.2% of all supercomputers run a Linux based OS, Google runs almost their entire infrastructure on Linux, Microsoft's DNS Servers run on Linux.

Yea junk OS there.....

Linux isn't what it was 5 years ago, it's fleshing out into a very usable operating system.

The problem is most applications developed for the end user are made to run with Windows.

I know, I know, there are emulators to run those applications. But most people don't have the time or desire to test, troubleshoot, and fix the problems that are typically encountered with WINE.

I'd love to use Linux on my gaming machine instead of paying for Windows 7 to get rid of Vista, but it just isn't worth the hassle.

 

[Lord Chaos]

Really? that's odd considering about 5 of the top ten most reliable operating systems are Linux, at least according to Netcraft's studies. 89.2% of all supercomputers run a Linux based OS, Google runs almost their entire infrastructure on Linux, Microsoft's DNS Servers run on Linux.

But us gamers do not use supercomputers or DNS servers to game on.

Linux isn't what it was 5 years ago, it's fleshing out into a very usable operating system.

Except you can't really do anything on it...almost all games don't run on it, many apps don't run on it, much hardware (especially modern) don't run on it, etc. etc.

 

[Lynk]

But us gamers do not use supercomputers or DNS servers to game on.



Except you can't really do anything on it...almost all games don't run on it, many apps don't run on it, much hardware (especially modern) don't run on it, etc. etc.

Linux requires much less resources than any windows platform, and as a result provides much more stability, speed, and processing power.

You can do anything on it, except it requires more time and set up to use games/applications designed for windows.

Name one piece of hardware that won't work with Linux. Pretty much everything has linux drivers nowadays...

 

[Nexus]

Except you can't really do anything on it...almost all games don't run on it, many apps don't run on it, much hardware (especially modern) don't run on it, etc. etc.

The only games I've had issues with were either Direct Microsoft releases (Like Flight Simulator X) or .NET based such as Neverwinter Nights 2 (hardly new).

Even UO's Enhanced Client runs pretty well on Linux, and for the Legacy you can now use UOAssist which is something that you couldn't do just a couple of years ago.

As for apps? Which one's Ventrilo? Yea there's Mangler for that, works really well and is probably easier to set up. Teamspeak has a Native Linux Client. Office Suites? Open Office comes pre-installed on many distros. Fiscal management? Try GNUcash or KmyMoney. 3d Graphics Design.. Blender, there are apps to replace most Windows based apps that run Native on Linux.

Additionally Google is now working with Codeweavers and submitting patches to improve WINE so the most popular Windows Compatibility Layer being used is rapidly improving.

Don't get me wrong I don't "Hate" Windows, I still use it too (I dual Boot my System), but as time goes on I'm finding myself using Linux more and more because so many things just work and often work better since Linux OS's usually have a smaller footprint on system resources. Let me give you an example...

That is me running 3 Atlantica Online Clients, WoW, and having the Browser running. When I took that image it was for a posting I did on Atlantica's forums. People were complaining about constantly getting a BSOD, and they wouldn't believe that I could run Atlantica on Linux and have it be stabler than on their Windows installs especially if I was multi-clienting or multi-tasking.

The facts are Linux is growing up, sure it's still behind Windows in many areas, but it's hitting a period of rapid growth and development.

 

[RawHeadRex]

hmmm avast just blocked a vbs.obfuscated-gen trogan from stratics while on firefox.

odd

 

[Tangled Metal]

Careful, naming malicious viruses on Stratics may cause the thread to be locked or removed! I run Win Vista with the newest firefox and I run AVG anti-virus software that is updated daily and I have not had a virus in many moons. Keep your virus program up to date and you will avoid many viruses!

 

[Nexus]

Careful, naming malicious viruses on Stratics may cause the thread to be locked or removed! I run Win Vista with the newest firefox and I run AVG anti-virus software that is updated daily and I have not had a virus in many moons. Keep your virus program up to date and you will avoid many viruses!

Trojan's aren't virus'. Virus' are all self-replicating, anything else is malware.

I'm not trying to sound like a smart*** but it's using Virus for a catch all phrase is a bad thing. Mac for example uses it as a sales gimmick, when they say there are no Virus threats to Mac OS X at the moment they are telling the truth, but since some many people use the word Virus and Malware synonymously they often believe they are immune to things like Trojans and other forms of Spyware, this leads to complacency.

I don't care what OS people are running. Make sure you have a good Anti-Virus program installed and running. You can never afford to be complacent, even us Linux and Mac users can't. Just because some pieces of Malicious Code can't directly effect our systems, that doesn't mean we can't pass it on to Windows Users, it can and does happen. We all have a responsibility to be pro-active in keeping wide spreading cyber infections from contained and not passing it on to other people.

 

[Flame (DrR)]

my strange stratics experiances today is unable to get on any forums earlier this evening as well as getting an email from stratics for an April 2010 News letter, which I have never heard of stratics doing before.

 

[JHall]

We're looking into this now, doesn't appear to be anything amiss, but we're on it.