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Virus (Trojan) Warning

For the second time in three days a Trojan has been deposited on my PC while I was attempting to respond to a post here. This happened Christmas morning and again this morning (12/28/2011). The circumstances both times were the same. I was using quick reply to reply to a thread. While typing...
- MarkE
- Thread
- Dec 28, 2011
- trojan virus warning
- Replies: 19
- Forum: Help Desk
Site Virus, so what really happened....

Bottom line, a big hole in an add on product, VBSEO, let in the malicious code. Evildoers used this hole to inject some very highly obfuscated code into our database. That bad code was injected above our normal html for anyone who was not logged in. It set a cookie on the infected users...
- froglips
- Thread
- Sep 23, 2010
- happened site virus
- Replies: 4
- Forum: Moderators and Administrator's Discussion
Need help: People getting Virus alert on site....

I'm consolidating the issues into this single thread. These are the prior reports from the help desk: http://www.ncwoodworker.net/forums/f86/trojan-detected-when-first-going-north-carolina-woodworker-34590/ http://www.ncwoodworker.net/forums/f86/bug-34591/...
- froglips
- Thread
- Sep 18, 2010
- alert people site virus
- Replies: 32
- Forum: Staff Announcements
Virus found on site, how you can help.

Evil! Its out there! We have found something unwelcome (much like a tick or powder post beetles) that we have promptly exterminated. Life on the information stuperhighway is always going to be a tug of war between two elephants eating cheesecake. I wanted to just take this opportunity...
- froglips
- Thread
- May 31, 2010
- found site virus
- Replies: 7
- Forum: Staff Announcements
vBSEO Broken: wreak'n havoc...

We have started getting odd reports of errors. Seem to affect IE8, but now folks are finding "Avast Trojan Virus" alerts. I just kicked off a virus scan. More digging, but seems really bizzare. Jim
- froglips
- Thread
- Mar 1, 2010
- broken havoc trojan vbseo virus weirdness wreakn
- Replies: 12
- Forum: Moderators and Administrator's Discussion
New Scam or New Virus E-Mail????

Received four of this in a row tonight: If you can't see this email please click here Ambrose Caswell Ambrose Caswell has added you as a friend Is Ambrose your friend? Click Yes if Ambrose is your friend, otherwise click No. But you have to click! Please respond...
- gator
- Thread
- Jul 10, 2008
- email scam virus
- Replies: 9
- Forum: User Announcements