Malware on SI

[Stinky666]

Here's exactly what I did to receive this..

1) Created a thread in the "Asylum" board.
2) Typed the word "color" in the boards search (was testing something).
3) It gave me the following error.

Danger: Malware Ahead!
Google Chrome has blocked access to this page on smangii.proboards.com.
Content from imageflock.com, a known malware distributor, has been inserted into this web page. Visiting this page now is very likely to infect your computer with malware.
Malware is malicious software that causes things like identity theft, financial loss, and permanent file deletion.

What I don't understand, is I have no ads, I am ad-free
There is nothing on that page (thread list) that is hosted on imageflock, like the above suggests/indicates.

So yeah I am confused. I have done the search again, and it worked fine this time

[Craig]

If you view source on the page, and search for 'imageflock', does it return anything?

[Stinky666]

Jun 20, 2013 6:20:13 GMT -8 Craig said:

If you view source on the page, and search for 'imageflock', does it return anything?

As soon as I typed "imagef" it returned no results.
Smangii hosts his stuff on either his own Photobucket, or Simie's host. I do believe. Never imageflock - I have never even heard of that before. The only thing it could be is an avatar (we have avatars display on the thread list - which is where this happened).


Just went looking at avatars in the thread list, and they are all Photobucket, imgur, or on people's own hosts.
Yet I just did the search again, and it gave the error again

smangii.proboards.com/board/12/asylum?page=2
This time I searched from page 2 in that board. Searching the word "color".

Just went to the main page and back to page 2., searched again for "color" and this time no malware error. It simply searched and returned results - as it should

[Brian]

It has to be someone's avatar, although I don't know if viewing the source via the browser would show anything past the first page that was loaded since they change via AJAX.

I couldn't get Chrome to warn me. I went into the Asylum board and searched for "color", but none of the pages came up with the error. Are you still able to get it?

[CheatAreZee]

Just wanted to note that I took a look and was able to find the image in question. It was an avatar image being used for this member account. I've gone ahead and removed the image so the message should no longer display

[Stinky666]

Jun 20, 2013 10:06:12 GMT -8 CheatAreZee said:

Just wanted to note that I took a look and was able to find the image in question. It was an avatar image being used for this member account. I've gone ahead and removed the image so the message should no longer display

That appears to have fixed it. I can't even find a post on the first 4 pages by that member, so that's strange
But thank you

[CheatAreZee]

I think I had to go to page 7 after doing the search to get the warning myself and found the account from there. Hopefully that's the only instance anyway, but if you find that the message is being triggered still you can feel free to let us know

[Stinky666]

Jun 20, 2013 12:15:21 GMT -8 CheatAreZee said:

I think I had to go to page 7 after doing the search to get the warning myself and found the account from there. Hopefully that's the only instance anyway, but if you find that the message is being triggered still you can feel free to let us know

How come it would trigger from page 7 though, when I (at the time) had only gone to page 2?
I just don't understand it. Does it pre-load all pages, or a set amount or something? (just a general question)

So far I have searched several times and nothing, so it seems as if it is fixed

[CheatAreZee]

My guess would be that the search system didn't provide all of the relevant results for the search this morning, causing some to be missed that pushed the topic up a few pages. The content from pages don't load until you click on the page number