Has VH.com been Hacked?

[MOVIEGEEK]

Chrome is warning me that this website is malicious.

[johns0]

I'm getting the same message in firefox 12.

[MOVIEGEEK]

MSE is also detecting a threat with IE9, something ain't right.

[aedipuss]

here's what i'm getting with firefox with every attempt to connect here



really annoying and difficult to work around.

[johns0]

Most likely some hackers at work reporting this site.

[El Heggunte]

Those "false positives" have happened to other sites as well.
Another reason to switch to Opera --- which IS NOT a "modern browser" ,
according to YouTube at least.

[johns0]

Easy fix for firefox is to uncheck tools/options/security block reported attack sites for now.

[hech54]

Same here....Firefox with Avast Free Home.

[aedipuss]

it's user reports that are causing it. the google report lists 25,000+ pages tested on the site and 0 pages uploading malicious software from vhelp. maybe the skimresources.com add-on to the site pissing people off?

[wulf109]

I'm getting a warning that Videohelp is an attack site. The warning appears to be from Google? I'm using Firefox and I have block attack sites checked in my security options.

[johns0]

wulf109-moved your thread to another thread already started.

[Baldrick]

Yup. They have uploaded some exe file in our forum. Working on it.

[Baldrick]

Malware removed. Fixing the security issue now.

[ANK]

Mr Baldrick thank you for running a great site. I read this site daily and learned alot from it.

BTW : For me on Firefox the error message is gone.

[sanlyn]

Nope. Error message is still there.

[mike20021969]

For me on Firefox the error message is gone.

Yep. All is well again.

[Baldrick]

Nope. Error message is still there.

It takes some time until google removes the warning.

[yoda313]

thank you baldrick.

I don't have the message. I am using firefox 11. I haven't updated yet.

[TreeTops]

Does anyone know if that malware did anything to one's computer or just this site? I had trouble booting this AM from a cold start after visiting this forum last night. All is good now after a hard shut down and re-boot. But I'm wondering.....

[Cornucopia]

Don't know if it's related, but I notice since you made the changes, AVATARS are not working.

Scott

edit: whoops, there they are, back again!

[Baldrick]

I'm changing some file permissions and adding apache modsecurity. Let me know if you get any any strange errors.

[wulf109]

What gives google the right to do this? Do they now control the internet?

[jagabo]

Google can do whatever they want. They don't have a monopoly on search. If you don't like it, don't use them.

[wulf109]

My question was what gives them the right to interfere with other websites,not if I use google to search.

[aedipuss]

My question was what gives them the right to interfere with other websites,not if I use google to search.

in what way did they interfere with anything? warning of potential danger is not a bad thing.

[MOVIEGEEK]

Chrome blocked the virus but IE9 let it go through, way to go Microsoft.
If you were on here last night you might want to do a virus scan.
As always Baldrick came to the rescue!

[jagabo]

My question was what gives them the right to interfere with other websites,not if I use google to search.

They didn't interfere with videohelp at all. They just added a warning to their search results. Google found malware at this site. Google added a warning to their search results indicating such. Baldrick confirmed the presence of malware and removed it:

https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/346642-Has-VH-com-been-Hacked?p=2166129&viewfull=1#post2166129
https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/346642-Has-VH-com-been-Hacked?p=2166135&viewfull=1#post2166135

What google stated was factual, true, and not intended to harm. So its statements wasn't libelous. Google has the same first amendment right of free speech as you and I.

[sanlyn]

These security gimmicks don't always work as advertised. I'm reminded of the time a while back when my retail AVG Antivirus suddenly decided to stop VirtualDub from running, and asking if I wanted to delete this "Trojan downloader". Instead, I deleted AVG. Just another of those glitches, folks.

[MOVIEGEEK]

Sanlyn,
Did you read the posts in this thread(especially by Baldrick)? This was a virus not a glitch, MSE caught the virus on my PC.

[TreeTops]

OK I did a full scan on my computer with AVAST and found nothing.