Here is McAfee saying this site is clean also. It also says chess.com ads are also clean.
chess.com
We tested this site and didn't find any significant problems.
Site is bugged with Trojans!
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PERIOD, END OF DISSCUSSION YOU KNOT HEADS, forgive me for the knot head reference I am sick and rather tired, and also rather drunk on the 90+ year old neighbors cough medicine
Skaar, your problem is that you are running two AV programs at the same time. You cannot do this. They will conflict with each other and do all sorts of crazy things, perhaps ending the universe as we know it...
Seriously though, that is your problem. You simply cannot do that and expect them to still detect viruses correctly. There is no way chess.com has a virus, or many more people would have gotten it, not just you, so it is your computer, and please quit insinuating that it isn't.
Also, go to the Norton forums that Eric pointed out, they can help you out.
I believe the problem is fixed. NIS2008 was glitched or bugged and messing with the site. I've been trying to get the same alerts I was getting earlier, but so far so good. Btw, NIS2009 is still saying my computer is clean. It had to be something within NIS2008 that didn't agree with something on chess.com.
Thanks to Eric and those that actually helped! Cheers!
De-Lar wrote:
This strip has always been my favorite.
hey - its copywrited. and redistribution prohibited!!! u didnt edit that out 
have had no problems with this site - AV and firewall up to date. have been almost all over the site - never a problem except for getting disconnected from server and losing games where im a peice and couple of pawns up
Oct 13, 2008
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thanks all! we knew we were clean - i just wanted to make sure that everyone else knew it too ;)
By the look at your Rating I don't think you have a Bug if you do then send it my way
nothing for me, you must have one from somewhere else that is made for chess.com or gets your passwords
I upgraded Norton to its most recent installment (Norton Antivirus 2009) and that seems to have ironed out the bugs so far.
Thanks for the advice, Erik.
Dmytro wrote:
I use Avira Free edition antivirus, Comodo Firewall Pro (free) and test my system with AdAware 2008 and Spybot S&D.
They all say the system is clean.
Do Not use Norton Antivirus he is ancient history, as far as it comes to me, never was a good software at all, use AVG.
Jul 21, 2009
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I haven't had virus probs on chess.com but I did get 1 worm when I used safari from an ad. It was blocked and deleted right away and I never had a problem after that.
Jul 25, 2009
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Skaar wrote:
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.
when I was non-premium, it hapenned to me too...
Aug 12, 2009
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I haven't got the time to read the middle of this discussion as well as the start and the end, but I hope someone mentioned the phrase "false positive" at some point. 
I'd rather have a virus than Norton Antivirus. Go AVG.
Aug 12, 2009
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erik wrote:
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!
to bad
I recently had to reformat my hard rive, I was infected. I had a sneaking suspition that it was this site.Right after I clicked on a sponsor, all sorts of problems started. I got rid of it using windows defender and McAfee, seems to be working ok now. Not sure if it was this site, but it was while i was using it. Coincidence, maybe.