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Geek Culture / Malware on forums?

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thenerd
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Posted: 2nd Nov 2010 22:03 Edited at: 2nd Nov 2010 22:03
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Quote: "Warning: Visiting this site may harm your computer!
The website at forum.thegamecreators.com contains elements from the site home.no, which appears to host malware – software that can hurt your computer or otherwise operate without your consent. Just visiting a site that contains malware can infect your computer.
For detailed information about the problems with these elements, visit the Google Safe Browsing diagnostic page for home.no.
Learn more about how to protect yourself from harmful software online."

I get this message repeatedly when I visit some threads on geek culture... anyone know how that happened, maybe an ad?

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Benjamin
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Posted: 2nd Nov 2010 22:15
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Where is this message coming from? Some anti-malware software you have installed?
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thenerd
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Posted: 2nd Nov 2010 22:20
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Nope, google chrome itself...

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Gencheff
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Posted: 2nd Nov 2010 23:52 Edited at: 2nd Nov 2010 23:53
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I just had this same thing with one of the threads here.

Said something about content frome home.no . Aparently it's a Google Chrome thing.

Quote: "Внимание! Посещаването на този сайт може да навреди на компютъра ви!
Уебсайтът на адрес forum.thegamecreators.com съдържа елементи от сайта home.no, който изглежда хоства злонамерен софтуер. Това е софтуер, който може да навреди на компютъра ви или да извършва операции без вашето съгласие. Компютърът ви може да се зарази дори само при посещение на сайт, съдържащ подобен софтуер.
За подробна информация относно проблемите с тези елементи посетете Страница за диагностика за безопасно сърфиране на Google за home.no."


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Indicium
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Posted: 2nd Nov 2010 23:52
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Just got it myself, don't worry about it... I'll go back the page i found it on and do some research

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thenerd
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Posted: 2nd Nov 2010 23:59 Edited at: 3rd Nov 2010 00:00
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Seems like it came from some users' avatar images, harmless but somewhat irritating considering how many threads it appears on...

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Venge
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Posted: 3rd Nov 2010 00:00
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Yea, looks like it's Lukas W's avatar. That message comes up on the "You know you program too much.." thread for me.
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Gencheff
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Posted: 3rd Nov 2010 00:01 Edited at: 3rd Nov 2010 00:03
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Same here

The culprit seems to be this link -http://home.no/n0id/other/5253.gif

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Fatal Berserker
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Posted: 3rd Nov 2010 05:58
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So basically 'Lukas W'.
Lukas W, can you change your avatar then?

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bergice
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Posted: 3rd Nov 2010 16:41
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Ah yes i noticed this too, i hate when i see that red screen pop up with a big "WARNING" on it.

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lazerus
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Posted: 3rd Nov 2010 17:02
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Im sure this has came up serveral times in the past. Im not sure if it was the same guy though.


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Phaelax
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Posted: 3rd Nov 2010 23:02
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That's weird because I also use Chrome and have never had that show up on the forums.


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Quik
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Posted: 6th Nov 2010 22:08
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Google Chrome doesnt like a lot of webbsites I got it the first time i visited here with chrome for example


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Insanity Complex
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Posted: 8th Nov 2010 00:23
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Quote: "Im sure this has came up serveral times in the past. Im not sure if it was the same guy though."


Yeah, this actually happens a lot. It's almost always somebodies avatar as well. All that happens is the avatar is hosted on a website that isn't considered safe, so any time the avatar is loaded the warning is triggered.

It can be a pain in the rear when the topic you want happens to have an avatar that throws one of those warnings...

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Yodaman Jer
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Posted: 12th Nov 2010 02:48
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(apologies for slight bump)

I have the latest version of Chrome, and I'm not getting any warnings, even when copying and going to the home.no thing in the address bar. Maybe a glitch in previous versions of Chrome caused the warning to appear when it shouldn't have?

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thenerd
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Posted: 12th Nov 2010 04:15
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Yeah, possibly. It's a small annoyance though, easily ignored. Also sort of related, all the google ad bot posts seem to be broken XD

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