Basil hacked Stay Off
If you can read this, get off Basil for now. Someone posted malware in the add space. It is not just Basil, many sites using the same ad host are affected, but for safety you should get off basil and perform a virus scan. Hopefully this will be resolved soon.
EDIT: It appears the issue has been resolved. Netseer was hacked earlier this morning. As a safety percaution, all ads containing content from Netseer were flagged as malicious. Considering Netseer is a major provider for Google AdSense, this affected a large number of sites.
EDIT 2: The issue appears to be recurring. Take precautions, or switch to Chrome for the time. The people at Google and Netseer have a lot of work to do before this is fully resolved.
EDIT 3: Things have finally been sorted out. [url=http://www.zdnet.com/netseer-suffers-hack-triggers-google-malware-warnings-7000010776/]Here[/url] is a news article on what happened.
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@dcp88: No. iPhones/iPod Touches/iPads don't get viruses. same with the apple computers. They can get viruses but it is rare and not from the same type of file.
[quote=Vegeto]Everything seems back to normal. See the edit above for a brief explanation of the situation.[/quote]
Great, thanks for the heads-up and the information.
Everything seems back to normal. See the edit above for a brief explanation of the situation.
[quote=Palaladin]It's okay I eat viruses/spyware/malware, I eat them all.[/quote]
Everybody should have their own private Palaladin.
It's okay I eat viruses/spyware/malware, I eat them all.
Maybe it's from an ad or so, because I got it on a wikia page as well. Another user just presented us with an URL and it was the same URL Chrome blocked for me (I'm not worried but maybe I should inform MrB anyway).
@LeafyyElf has a point, by the way. Somehow it seems that when one Basiler tries to help the others he gets more sneers or even flames than thanks. This place really is a jungle.
[url=http://www.overclock.net/t/1357016/cm-netseer-com-malware-issue]Relevant[/url]
https://productforums.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/chrome/kWCMjlyJmek *
I just got the same warning for Verizon* on the same wikia (Memory Alpha), but that's WOT positive. Apparently both notices pop up on YouTube, Yahoo, Imdb- pretty much everywhere.
* This is a https URL, those can't be linked.
**I don't even use that, I use Yahoo.
Adblock will stop the virus correct? And thanks for the heads up.
[quote=vegito49]Im using my phone so....[/quote]
android/windows phone can get viruses also.
Adblock FTW~
Adblock
Using adblock.
Im using my phone so....
hah I have adblock anyways
I actually noticed this in several places. DeviantArt as well.
u wot m8