Malware Warning/

[hogrod]

Please everybody stop visiting this website until they get their issues fixed. You are just asking for a possible virus/malware infection going to the site. Definitely not worth the risk just to look at some caching stats.

The reason not everyone is getting a warning is because of the differences in how they are getting to the website. I you try to search for the site in google, google will block the site with a warning. (see example below).

Google Warning

If you Navigate to a bookmark or type in the URL directly in IE you get no warning, but try the same thing in firefox you will see the warning page below.

Beyond that if you are viewing the page without seeing these warnings your only protection left is the antivirus you have installed. If your AV isn’t detecting a problem It may be time to look into a different virus protection program. Not all AV programs are equal & just because you paid for your AV doesn’t mean it’s better.

I’m a bit curious, how many of you had your antivirus stop this threat & what AV are you using? Avira(free version) did stop the threat on my pc.

[furfool]

@hogrod wrote:

Please everybody stop visiting this website until they get their issues fixed.

I’m no computer guy, so how am I supposed to know when it’s fixed?

[hogrod]

@furfool wrote:

@hogrod wrote:

Please everybody stop visiting this website until they get their issues fixed.

I’m no computer guy, so how am I supposed to know when it’s fixed?

All I’m saying is why risk going to the site for awhile(couple weeks to a month) to avoid the risk of infecting your pc.

Best bet for checking if the site is still infected(without infecting your pc) would be don’t use a bookmark to navigate to the website, or type in the URL unless you are using firefox 3.5. You could use google to search for the site but as many of you have seen their bad website blocker only works 3/4 of the time.
Someone running a mac or linux could use firefox 3.5 and try loading the page would be the safest way to see if the warning is gone, since they aren’t effected by 99.9% of viruses.

I fix customers PC’s every day with virus & malware issues, my warning is just highly recommended advice meant to keep all your computers running good. If you want to risk going to a known infected site, that’s completely up to you.

[hogrod]

Looking at why the website is flagged, I notice there is only 1 Malicious script exploit.

http://safebrowsing.clients.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?client=Firefox&hl=en-US&site=http://cacherstats.com/Rank33626-33750.html

Decided to ignore the warnings and look around the site and see if my antivirus still finds a virus or if it is just a fault positive from the infection before. I found something interesting, if I load the main website no virus is found, but as soon as I click the Wisconsin Stats page my AV goes off that it found a virus.

According to google(link above) there are 10 pages that download this malicious script. after testing here are the ones I found. Wisconsin, Michigan, New Mexico, Germany, United Kingdom, British Columbia, & the Czech Republic. Of course this could change anytime.

It does seem strange that only certain places/links are targeted, I wonder if it has to do with the pages with the most traffic.

[hogrod]

Scanned one of these infected files with 21 different Antivirus programs, only 1 flags the file. Sometimes this indicates a false positive, but I suspect this is just some new type of infection.
http://virusscan.jotti.org/en/scanresult/601886c6b3c0b70b945cbd2160e3c919db98bf1d

[Timberline Echoes]

We use Norton and Avast and it was caught right away.

[Todd300]

I use the AVG Suite, but have not even tried the site. I never use that site anyways.

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