Site is bugged with Trojans!

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Avatar of Skaar_inactive

Everytime I login, my computer gets hit with attacks, trojans, etc. This has been happening since the last site upgrade.

Avatar of redlite462

hmm. I'm on several times a day and haven't had any attacks. Could they be from somewhere else?

Avatar of gibberishlwmetlkwn

I've never been vulnerable nor attacked by trojans or viruses in general while browsing chess.com.  You may just have problems with security to begin with.

Avatar of silentfilmstar13

No problem here.

Avatar of erik

there are 50,000 people a day on Chess.com. if there were security issues we would be flooded with complaints and people wouldn't stay or buy memberships. i'm sorry to say but you are likely infected. sorry!

Avatar of dwaxe

Get a good virus scanner. Yours currently fails.

Avatar of Skaar_inactive

I only have this problem when online here. It usually happens right after I click "home", etc. after signing in. Norton pops up a bunch of messages saying this attack blocked, this trojan stopped, etc.

Avatar of De-Lar

A very simple solution.  Use UNIX.

Avatar of Skaar_inactive

Here is the problem...

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/attack_sigs/s22063.html

Avatar of Am3692

Symantec, aka Norton... that's your problem... I prefer most free antiviruses over Norton... try AntiVir or AVG Free, update, then check again... also according to that article, the problem is with Quicktime version 7.1.3 which came out two years ago. If you update to 7.5.5, this shouldn't really be a problem...

Avatar of deadpoetic

whats wrong with norton? Ive been using it with out a problem for years and my dad has been using it without a problem for even longer... Throw in a free anti spyware into the mix and you got yourself a protected computer.

Plus with 360 you get a back up plus PC tune up. Though I am going to be switching over to 2009 antivirus to save some ram cuz i desperatly need some on this computer.

Avatar of Skaar_inactive

I just downloaded AntiVir, and when I refresh this page it says something about chessdiagram.v49 being html script virus.

Avatar of Skaar_inactive

I keep getting the same alert almost everywhere I click on chess.com. Every forum message, personal message, etc. all detects a chessdiagram.v49 script virus.

Avatar of Am3692
Skaar wrote:

I just downloaded AntiVir, and when I refresh this page it says something about chessdiagram.v49 being html script virus.


Strange, I am using AntiVir, but I get no issues about this site. Where did you get this warning? What page? I will check it out. EDIT: I will check those out.

To deadpoetic: There is nothing wrong about Norton, it does its job most of the time, but you are required to have a paying subscription for it to do anything, but despite its many years of progress, it is quite a resource stealer for a computer, it is faster than before, but still requires a lot in comparison to others. If you have the computer power to run it, go ahead, but Kaspersky might be a better alternative. Otherwise, AntiVir, Avast! and AVG have functioning free versions and are quite fast. As for the spyware, there are a lot of freeware anti-spyware (Spyboy S&D, SUPERAntiSpyware, AdAware) that are quite capable of parring up to Norton.

Avatar of De-Lar

This strip has always been my favorite.

 

Avatar of deadpoetic

I've used spybot S&D for quite some time now. And you don't exactly need to pay for a crack when it comes to norton. but ya i get what your saying.

Avatar of greydini01

there had better not bee any viruses here becuase I know who 2 call

Avatar of timepass

just check if you have a browser addon or another security feature where you have blocked scripting tools from running....there may actually be no virus, just that the scripting tool needs to run for you to see the chessboards here.

Avatar of Nelso_125

Use AVG free edition to zap nasties.

Avatar of piyush____

use ubuntu.

I have switched from windows to ubuntu, and the experience is far better.