OY Again Kaspersky and Trojan Message

[BWolf Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close BWolf]

Thought a new thread was in order. Didn't have a problem before, but Kaspersky is reporting a Trojan OY this morning. I use Firefox.

[mav Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close mav]

I use IE and kept getting threat blocked for 2 days

[tonyg Goomba & Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close tonyg]

Just tried with Kaspersky AV and Firefox and got the trojan warning.

[Dori Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Dori]

I just tried using IE and AVG. Threat message appeared. The same thing happened last night.

Dori

[jackio Gold Contributor Find all posts View Profile Close jackio]

I get the warning using IE but not Chrome.

[Pstreet1 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Pstreet1]

I use Kaspersky and Firefox and AOL (blushing) and both have been giving out warnings the whole time--and still are this morning.

[JWC Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close JWC]

I was just on OY and didn't have any problems at all. I haven't had any problems with OY at all and I go there a couple times every day.

I use Firefox and Norton Internet Security 2012.

[T. R. Oglodyte Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close T. R. Oglodyte]

It's a JavaScript issue. If you have JavaScript disabled there isn't a problem.

[JWC Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close JWC]

It's a JavaScript issue. If you have JavaScript disabled there isn't a problem.

I have JavaScript ENABLED.

[Dori Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Dori]

I don't have a clue! LOL

Dori

[dioxide45 Member Find all posts View Profile Close dioxide45]

This is a big problem that they are working on OY. It is affecting a lot of people, but some others that have similar setups are not having the issue. It appears to be related to JavaScript. So if that is disabled, you shouldn't have the issue. It also doesn't appear to affect Chrome users. I use Chrome so haven't had the problem, but as soon as I tried with IE, instant issues.

[T. R. Oglodyte Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close T. R. Oglodyte]

There's now absolutely no question that the site had malware. Doug found the malware code lurking inside one of the .css style sheets.

IMHO, if you were visiting the site, not using the Chrome browser, and not getting error messages, you ought to be questioning the effectiveness of your virus and malware protection. To my mind, there is now no question that the site had been corrupted with the Phoenix Exploit. If you were using Internet Explorer or Firefox, your internet security protection program should have alerted you that you were visiting an infected site. If you didn't get an alert and you are not a savvy internet maven (such as John Cummings) who relies on your virus and malware protection software to catch things like this, you should absolutely make sure that you have not been infected and you should be pondering the effectiveness of your installed internet security program. Phoenix Exploit is a well-known and characterized Trojan. I can't think of a reason why any reasonable internet security shouldn't have detected it.

[JWC Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close JWC]

If you didn't get an alert and you are not a savvy internet maven (such as John Cummings) who relies on your virus and malware protection software to catch things like this, you should absolutely make sure that you have not been infected and you should be pondering the effectiveness of your installed internet security program. Phoenix Exploit is a well-known and characterized Trojan. I can't think of a reason why any reasonable internet security shouldn't have detected it.

Now you resort to personal attacks. I thought you were better than that, but I guess I was mistaken. I was a very highly paid Software Design consultant having designed and implemented Operating systems, etc. and have been a very knowledgeable Internet User for many many years. My AV is one of the top rated ones. Unike most people, I am not loyal to any particular one as I choose the best one each year as the ratings do change. I also run other AVs and none detected this particular problem though they have given me alerts on this site and OY at other times. I have done full system scans and all is well.

You need to get a liitle better informed regarding Apple's OS. I am not a fan of Apple at all but their OS is far superior and much more secure than MS. Only the uninformed say that their lack of attacks is due to their small marketshare. Their OS was designed properly from the ground up with their networking model based on the OSI model. I presented a paper at a computer conference on this subject.

Back to the issue. It could be that I didn't see it because I recently updated both my Firefox browser and Java last week.

[JLB Please excuse me, I'm a Dick. Not a moron just a Dick Find all posts View Profile Close JLB]

Wow!

No smilies.

[tonyg Goomba & Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close tonyg]

Some people never smile.