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AVG Anti-Virus 2012 Starting to Block TUGBBS webpages!

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This never happened before. While going form one forum to another I get a red pop up messgae. It is from my AVG account.

"AVG Linkscanner Alert
!Threat was blocked!

File name:69.16.236.4/~tugbbsc/forums/clientscript/vbulletin_global.js?v=364

Threat name: Exploit Phoenix Exploit Kit (type 769)

Anyone else experience anything like this?
 
w.bob said:
This never happened before. While going form one forum to another I get a red pop up messgae. It is from my AVG account.

"AVG Linkscanner Alert
!Threat was blocked!

File name:69.16.236.4/~tugbbsc/forums/clientscript/vbulletin_global.js?v=364

Threat name: Exploit Phoenix Exploit Kit (type 769)

Anyone else experience anything like this?
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Yes, I've been getting it alot.
 
No, but I've been getting errors the last few days about not being able to load script when I try to access page.
 
I received a Norton message when I accessed the TUG BBS a few minutes ago.

"An intrusion attempt by presider.pro was blocked"

The attacking computer was listed as presider.pro which dns lookup reports as being on a Moscow server. The ip address lookup shows as being in Scranton, PA. Might there be some address spoofing going on?
 
i will begin looking into this.
 
Me too. Getting it every time I refresh or click on a thread. Looks exactly like the one in post #4. Just started about 11 EDT. On the one hand I'm glad AVG is working, but on the other, I wish it wasn't necessary.

Jim
 
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I just got the same message using Norton. - Jacki
 
Don't know if it's related, but at some point this morning around 9am CST, I was not able to load the TUG page. The error was referring to a cron job - I believe it was a backup.
 
I'm getting an error message too from Kaspersky Anti-Virus. It has popped up several times, warning about a threat and a Trojan. This morning all was fine.
 
Me too...

Upon visiting TUG today at about 6:15 p.m., my Avast anti-virus immediately indicated that a "Trojan Horse" virus had been successfully blocked. Further details disappeared before I could wite down the virus description details.
 
Same thing, I signed on a few minutes ago and message keeps popping up about threat blocked avg alert
 
Don't know if it's related, but I don't seem to be able to underline or bold, or italicize or change color of TUG posts. Smilies don't work either. None of the message formatting seems to work.

Jim
 
No issues here, what browser is everyone using? I am on Chrome.
 
BM243923 said:
Same thing, I signed on a few minutes ago and message keeps popping up about threat blocked avg alert
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Your avatar is showing as a broken image, is that by design?
 
I have never had this problem until a few days ago and now I keep getting pop-up messages from AVG stating that they are detecting an "infection" from tugbbs.com in the form of a "Exploit Phoenix Exploit Kit (769)". I get this infection alert from either Internet Explorer or Firefox. I got an alert the the other day that AVG was doing some sort of software update and it seems the problems started then. Was wondering if anyone else had this issue and if they were able to resolve it. Quite frustrating... :confused:
 
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We have a new Mod (Sue) on the Marriott forum, and well..... she's dangerous. ;)
 
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dioxide45 said:
Your avatar is showing as a broken image, is that by design?
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No that is new also no avatar

I put a new avatar today and seems like it likes this one
 
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DeniseM said:
We have a new Mod (Sue) on the Marriott forum, and well..... she's dangerous. ;)
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I warned you I might break TUG! :rofl:

As long as I'm here I may as well report - I'm not getting any of the issues that others are reporting in this thread but since about 5 this evening TUG has been running very slowly and whatever it is, it doesn't appear to be affecting the other sites I've viewed.

(The other tech issue I reported to TUG yesterday, about the Google Search error message, appears to be resolved.)

For what it's worth, I'm running Safari on a Mac.
 
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