Any idea why coming to PE via Opera gets a red screen with a 'malicious site' warning? It's been happening for weeks and I'm getting tired of it.
Any idea why coming to PE via Opera gets a red screen with a 'malicious site' warning? It's been happening for weeks and I'm getting tired of it.
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I have noticed it too.
It seems to be an Opera 'feature' - if you choose the menu and 'about' then there is a link where you can 'rate' Opera and send them a comment about this.
I have just done that.
My antivirus software is doing this.
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Laura
Well, according to Duncan there's nothing to worry about, as it's the URL from one of the elements from the PE-site.
Its a known exploit of vBulletin and it causes anyone accessing this site via Google (and possibly other search engines) to get redirected to a malicious download site.
Opera gets its information about malicious sites from a Yandex blacklist. http://www.yandex.com/infected?url=w...ssiveears.org/
I would say it is something to worry about.
If you want protect your own computer from being redirected and you know how to, add a local host entry of:
127.0.0.1 myfilestore.com
I checked on desktop Windows using chrome earlier and ESET didn't give the malicious site pop-up.
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Laura
It redirects you to http://myfilestore.c0m/ download.php?id=5e0777d3 (which I have munged to stop it working).
What that php file does is controlled by someone else - they could put anything they like in there (malware, ransomware, keyloggers etc.)
Read all about it here:
https://www.vbulletin.com/forum/foru...direct-malware
I kept getting the 'site has been hacked' warning on Firefox. Eventually got back in by searching for a thread on John Wetton in PE on google.
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