URGENT: FAO NEIL: efestivals - malicious site link.

[Mr Ploppy]

I am still getting the warning from this site even tho the front page seems to be fixed now.

using Avast too but the warnings are still coming thick and fast!

[ampersand]

Me too, Explorer triumphs again!

[irons]

away wi your explorer pish! do you still use ms dos?

[ampersand]

I used dos on a pc when you were in nappies. Where's Crooked Vultures playing in Edinburgh? Might pop along.

[krisskross]

Its because there is the bloodhound trojan in the flash advert its trying to load. See my nortons link.

[Mr Ploppy]

good reason to use ad-blockers

j/k

Edited November 15, 2009 by Mr Ploppy

[Joshuwarr]

Had it on like every website :/ However, I think efests may have been open in the background when it was happening.. Its stopped now though

[mikeb]

I'm not getting any 'complaints' here ... but then again I junked Nortons a few years back despite using it continuously for donkey's years. Only have some el-cheapo (aka free) jobbie now and tbh, I've only just (literraly a couple of days ago) got around to installing that ! Been running 'bare back' so to speak for the last several years Never had a problem ever in > 10 years so not particularly concerned ... famous last words and all that Anyways, according to the Norton notes it would appear that the exploit is only really applicable if you have an OLD version of the god-d@mn-awful-should-be-wiped-off-the-planet-sooner-rather-than-later Adobe Flash Player installed on your system. Anything >9.0.124 doesn't have the vulnerability. Make sure your flash player is as up-to-date as it can be depending on your OS of course as I still have to use FP8 on Ye Olde Puter so there is no fix available for that version. Also a *very* good idea to completely clear your cache because if, unlike me who does it every time I close the browser, you haven't done it recently the infected file(s) will be cached on your PC and will hang around for a dogs age !

Looks to me like it was one of the ADs or even the AD House system itself that was/is the problem rather than eFests anyway. Could well explain other strange things apparently going on earlier this morning whilst browsing the forums tho.

Edited November 15, 2009 by mikeb

[Alcatraz]

Yeah Kriss, but some websites only survive due to ads and if everybody blocked them we would not have half the websites we like to surf.

Oh well, its nearly 12 hours since I first reported this problem (and I believe otheres have) and the trojans still seem to be embedded in this site.

I am disappointed. :-(

http://www.infoworld.com/t/applications/fi...auses-angst-900

[llcoolphil]

Neil tends to forget everything eFestivals on Sundays. I am hopeful he'll be right on it when he firsts reads this

[eFestivals]

good reason to use ad-blockers

j/k

the only good reason to use ad-blockers is if you want efestivals to not be here.

[eFestivals]

the main page is all to cock. maybe neil is fixing it?

that was an issue caused a server software update, not related to anything else.

This issue was cured by a server reboot last night.

[eFestivals]

neil never seems to be about on weekends. you'd think thered be another mod on call.

Mods are about all the time.

But if it's urgent then you're welcome to call the efestivals phone number as well.

[eFestivals]

The forums were down for a while mid/late afternoon.

that was actually the server being rebooted to cure the separate issue with the front page.

Unfortunately the server didn't restart properly, so was offline for about 50 minutes, between approx 6.25 and 7:15 yesterday.

[eFestivals]

I've tracked down what the issue was, and it's been disabled since 8:52am this morning so is no longer affecting anything.

Apologies for any inconvenience.

Edited November 16, 2009 by eFestivals

[eFestivals]

Further info:

The issue existed from 10:20am yesterday (Sunday 15th Nov) until 8:52am today.

The issue was caused by one of the ad-servers used by efestivals having been hacked, exploiting a known (tho only recently known) vulnerability. To ensure that all traces of this issue are removed, the effected adserver will be rebuilt from scratch.