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cleaned cookies

was able to get on the boards and browse a bit before the message came up again. Cleaned/deleted cookies and so far so good.
 
I was not allowed access to TUG by my Kaspersky system. I received a warning that the site was infected with a Trojan virus. $100 and two hours later no virus was detected and I now am OK. I assumed it was because I had taken my computer to Hawaii and accessed TUG from using the resort's Wifi. Happy to be able to access TUG after five days!!!!!
 
Still getting the same warning at 7:50 pm Thursday.
 
Just got the message below:

Whoa!
Are you sure you want to go there?
http://tugbbs.com/forums/ may be risky to visit.

Why were you redirected to this page?

When we visited this site, we found it exhibited one or more risky behaviors.
 
I'm getting the McAfee site advisor warning (same text as others have reported) using both Chrome and IE9, but not Safari.

Tugbbs would display briefly - split seconds- then the warning pops up.
 
My friend has a virus that was causing McAfee warnings when he went to certain web pages. The warning went away when Best Buy sanitized his PC for him.
 
persia said:
Being a Mac user I miss all the excitement ;)
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There is nothing magic, or in the design, that makes Mac's immune from viruses and malware. It's just that the installed base has been so small that 'evildoers' just didn't bother. As more people (smugly) buy Mac's and sign on to the internet without any malware protection, it will be more attractive to the virus writers. Keep your machine(s) naked to the risk at your peril.

Jim
 
I dropped McAfee (and Norton) years ago as they "warned" you about "bad" sites / files that weren't while blithely allowing actual threats in without a hint of problems. They are both living off long lost reputations that died when the original writers were bought out. Go with Avast! (free) or Trend Micro or Bitdefender (there are others) that actually work rather than these less than effective - and costly - brands that don't (add CA anti-virus to that list of losers as well).

And as mentioned think Mac protects you is wrong as well. They just were too limited to attract problems but now I phones & tablets have increased opportunities for the bad guys & they are vulnerable.
 
FWIW - Firefox uses Google's Safe Browsing database for alerting its users to malicious sites. I just checked this database for www.tugbbs.com via Google's webmaster tools, and it reports:



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As past exploits have involved the setting of cookies, I'd suggest any of you receiving these errors log off the board via the Log Out link in the blue navigation bar near the top of the page to remove any cookies from the site, then log back on and see if you still get the warnings. If the warnings continue, try logging off, manually deleting any cookies from tugbbs.com and logging back in.
 
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Yesterday I did delete all cookies before trying again, a few times, and kept getting the same error message. Last night I did a scan (McAfee virus scan, not the other malware scans) which found nothing.

But just now I logged in on Chrome and didn't get the warning for the first time in days. So all seems well.

:shrug:
 
I get the same thing!

Funny how you don't get a warning when visiting MVCI.com.

:rofl::rofl::rofl:
Laurie said:
Warning: Dangerous Site

Whoa!
Are you sure you want to go there?
http://tugbbs.com/forums/ may be risky to visit.

Why were you redirected to this page?

When we visited this site, we found it exhibited one or more risky behaviors.

McAfee SiteAdvisor keeping me protected!
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Not immune, but certainly less susceptible to infection, the Windows registry for example is the perfect design to feed and nurture viruses. Even locked down Unix can get hacked, but the likelihood is small.

Passepartout said:
There is nothing magic, or in the design, that makes Mac's immune from viruses and malware. It's just that the installed base has been so small that 'evildoers' just didn't bother. As more people (smugly) buy Mac's and sign on to the internet without any malware protection, it will be more attractive to the virus writers. Keep your machine(s) naked to the risk at your peril.

Jim
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I have been seeing the same thing when going to TUGBBS through Chrome. I think perhaps that McAfee picked up that TUG had that issue a while back with the Trojan and logged it as a site that exhibited dangerous behavior. I found that I was able to add the TUG BBS to the list of safe sites, so I don't get the warning any longer.
 
I resubscribed to Norton 360 yesterday. After the installation, I received a warning that TUG was an unsafe web site. Right now is the first time that I haven't received that message.
 
northwoodsgal said:
I resubscribed to Norton 360 yesterday. After the installation, I received a warning that TUG was an unsafe web site. Right now is the first time that I haven't received that message.
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I keep getting the same message from various other defense programs I run - and when I say that I wish to visit TUG anyway, more warning pages come up. Clearly, somebody who visited us did not wipe their feet before they came in the door.
 
Makai Guy said:
FWIW - Firefox uses Google's Safe Browsing database for alerting its users to malicious sites. I just checked this database for www.tugbbs.com via Google's webmaster tools, and it reports:
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Since I am seeing similar postings at another BBS m can you advise in General terms (without disclosing any vulnerabilities or advice to wannabe hackers) what the problem was ?

Thanks
 
On Christmas Day I had some malware e-mail all my contacts with various links. It happened after Foogle had notified me of the issue with TUG and I foolishly bypassed the warning in an effort to notify the mods here. I posted about it here
 
olschool said:
I've been getting this same message on my desktop. Should I be worried to get on the site?
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I just went again to McAfee's www.siteadvisor.com and had it again look up www.tugbbs.com/forums/ this is what I get:
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Is the site safe? Both we and our server techs have knocked ourselves out investigating this and we cannot find any problem with the site. But I can't say with complete certainty that the site is clean.

Be sure you have a good antivirus program installed, and that you keep it up-to-date.

I'm closing this thread, as there is more ongoing discussion in this more recent thread and there's no point in fragmenting the discussion.
 
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