Virus risk

General General Lotus Talk
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I’ve just had the following message when I logged on to exiges.com

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: iv3.eviser.co.cc/yzyqjwbpanewardpf.php
Name: Phoenix Exploit Kit (type 1859)

Last night( Thurs) my AVG security system picked up malware and a trojan as I clicked on and exiges.com page.
Has anyone else had a problem?

I

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Wear a condom !!!

Lol … seriously tho computers are a bane of modern day life …
A visit to a web page months ago could have planted a seed that is only germinating now …
Personally I have found AVG to be the AntiVirus to have … it,s free and in my limited e,experience has fixed problems where other software has not .

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Yes my AVG pick up a virus threat tonight when I was logging on.

I closed all my browsers and tried again , all ok this time

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I’ve had this happen the last 2 times I’ve logged on here now. I’d guess that it’s something to do with the advertising banners at the top right.

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:angry:

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Is it just me or has the standard of the ads at the top right deteriorated over the last week. My performance is spot on, and not looking to better it with a bottle of pills :wink:

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Only just noticed that you can’t remove your own posts either - I accidentally double posted earlier while fending off the cause of this thread.

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[quote=jfk]Wear a condom !!!

Lol … seriously tho computers are a bane of modern day life …
A visit to a web page months ago could have planted a seed that is only germinating now …
Personally I have found AVG to be the AntiVirus to have … it,s free and in my limited e,experience has fixed problems where other software has not . [/quote]

You get what you pay for - AVG is sh*t. Have it on my business laptop but run Norton on all the others. �30 for 3 PC’s for a year is well worth it. AVG causes all sorts of other issues which you may experience but not relate to AVG.
I had the same message as everyone else as I was sneaking a peek using my business laptop.

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Same problem for me, using F-secure (never had a problem with it in years) - I just block the Java 6 installation the page is trying to install (and the phising .exe as well).

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Very odd, I’ve checked using this

http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=exiges.com

and it doesn’t report anything, and I’ve not had any alerts with either Avast, Avira or Norton 360 on various PCs.

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I had this yesterday, had to put the P.C back to factory settings and start again. :angry:

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Ouch. Where there’s blame there’s a claim, right? :wink:

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Can anyone who has experienced this please let me know if it’s still flagging up ?

Cheers
David

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Not had a problem since, thanks.

As for AVG being sh*t as one of our number said – it stopped this threat, quarantined it and protected my computer, and it allowed me to alert others to the danger. I’ve tried Norton and NcAfee and they are just too much hard work.

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[quote=thommo]Not had a problem since, thanks.

As for AVG being sh*t as one of our number said – it stopped this threat, quarantined it and protected my computer, and it allowed me to alert others to the danger. I’ve tried Norton and NcAfee and they are just too much hard work. [/quote]

ME !!! :smiley:

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No problems since the first one David. Cheers.

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You all need to run malawarebye;- free software that will kill and clean all these nasty things and be aware that AVG does not get them all!!