It's BACK..........

I have missed EOS for the past couple of days.........every time I have tried to get on the site a virus warning has popped up. Poor old Justin has had several messages on facebook from me.....and now we are BACK !!

Thank goodness for that!!

OMG Karen what a nightmare weekend we've had! 

We have only just got on top of everything, some few things to do still, but it's looks like we're more or less back.

Will post some more details later after I've had the first rest of the weekend.

Justin

YEAH!!!!

I thought I had done it Justin!

I got so many virus warnings as I surfed the site, that I created a thread about it

As soon as I hit "post new thread" the site went down!

I have been panic stricken!!!!

Thanks goodness it's back and all seems fine................no virus warnings!!!

Welcom back EOS!!

Glad you got it sorted Justin. The people that do this for sun should be strung up and left to rot .

Mark

Hi all;

As at 2115 local still cant get into EOS via Firefox but ok in IE7

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People will do anything for "sun" Mark!

Sorry, couldn't resist that!

So, was it a hacker, causing a virus?

Some peeps on here were using vicious tongues the other day..........

Maybe they have the knowledge to know how to do this sort of thing?

Saddoes..............................

People will do anything for "sun" Mark!

B*gger, missed that . I suppose that's what you get for spending the afternoon on the beer!!

Mark

We have Norton Internet Security on our computer and they have a traffic light system for each web site. When we visit EOS site it is bringing up a red light with the message " site unsafe -64 computer threats".  This site has always had a green light -i.e. safe site, until today. If Justin has fixed the problem, maybe Norton has not re-assessed the site yet. Is anyone else getting a red light for EOS site with Norton?

Nick & Linda

I am getting the virus warning AGAIN.................

I tried on saturday to access the EOS site unable to, finally managed to log on sunday, but norton anti-virus warning site not safe.

Before I go to bed and have a first proper night's sleep since Friday, I thought I'd just explain what happened.

At around 6pm on Friday the server seemed to slow down and it rebooted itself.  Around that time morerosado told me that a certain thread had tried to install a virus on her PC.

I took a look straight away but couldn't see anything.  We carried on having a look and soon realised that something was wrong.  It looked like the server had been compromised.  So we turned the website off to protect everyone.

We worked flat out all weekend to move the site and clean the pages and now it's on a brand new server and we've put every possible anti-virus running on it.  If this server goes down again I'm calling it a day.

Anyway, we managed to catch it very quick on Friday so there is very little risk to anyone.  I will be sending an email about this tomorrow but if anyone is worried please get in touch with me.

Anyway, just to put everyone's mind at rest here is a copy of the message from Google giving us the all clear:

"A review for this site has finished. The site was found clean. The badware warnings from web search are being removed. Please note that it can take some time for this change to propagate."

I assume Norton and the others will soon reflect this too.

Sorry about that, we will try and make sure it never happens again but these things just get more sneaky and clever all the time so we can only try our best to combat them.

Off to bed now for a very deserved decent night's sleep.

Buenas noches a todos.

Justin

Call it a day?

Justin...........don't you dare!

Still getting the followin virus warnings:

JS/Pakes

Exploit Realplay

Exploit

Hopefully, as you say, it will take a while for the warnings to go away.

Keep up the hard work Justin, don't let the b*ggers get you down.

Hi Justin...

Part of the deal...

I am sure it will be fully solved now.

Best,

Maria

Some of the forum threads are not working correctly! I created a new one under Forum Help and it now comes up with an error.

Justin

well done for sorting it. All seems ok now on my PC at least.

Hi Justin - good to see you back - I missed you!!

I didn't realise just how often I log on to check the latest news and chat!

... and don't even think of giving up, you provide a great service.

Well done Justin  . Don't give up .

Just logged in for today and AVG reported the virus warnings again (Exploit.RealPlay and real1.js). Is it something in the javascript menus? Just cleaned the laptop again.

Mark

Hi Justin,

On friday evening the Trogan xxyou.net/msn.gif was being blocked on each page of EOS by my Internet Security which is Kaspersky 8.0.

Today although the site is up and running Kaspersky is still proactivley blocking another Trogan www. brahms/images/msn.gif it has identified this as Trogan.JS agent.aat is this content required by your code or it malicious?

My system security is blocking this Trogan so this is just to inform you that this is happening.

Justin,

Glad the site is back up again. I was getting withdrawal symtoms without my daily dose of EOS.

Markfish,

If these are scripts that are being run have you tried a program called "NoScript". I use Firefox and NoScript is an add-on to it. This stops scripts running unless you give permission. This permission can be temporary ( this session only) or permanent. If there is more than one script on the page you can choose which script to allow or deny.

Although this won't stop them putting these things on the webpage it will stop them running without you knowing as you have to give permission for them to run.