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You've just infected your wife's computer with the chess disease
Nov 13, 2011
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Really sorry you're all experiencing this. We are investigating now to see where this is coming from.
I hope to have an update shortly.
Nov 13, 2011
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Hello my Brian, I had a virus attack myself but it was block by my antivirus mcafee, witch is your antivirus ? SINCE I don't play with my portable pc because I haven't mcafee on !!! I just play from our home pc.
Nov 13, 2011
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You shouldn't be seeing this now hopefully. We believe we've corrected this now.
:))) thank you 
Thank you Laura. The virus has gone!! Also thank you Kohai. You obviously did a good job. Glad it is over.
Funny thing, heinzie. My wife's pc seems uninfected. But I guess she could walk through a rainstorm and not get wet!!!!
Try downloading AVAST antivirus...it's used by millions worldwide...it's free and it works...upgrade if need be to pay for more protection. Norton/McAfee antivirus etc. are perhaps a waste of money, the money saved could be given to charity.
Nov 14, 2011
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YousMell wrote:
Try downloading AVAST antivirus...it's used by millions worldwide...it's free and it works...upgrade if need be to pay for more protection. Norton/McAfee antivirus etc. are perhaps a waste of money, the money saved could be given to charity.
no way...AVG all the way 
Nov 14, 2011
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--a wrote:
Well, I wouldn't trust McAfee, considering this site which was unknowingly spreading viruses is supposedly protected by them.
Personally, I would recommend using the Linux operating system and avoid the whole virus issue.
What? Are you saying that there's no such thing as a Linux virus? I hope not, because that's simply not true.
Nov 14, 2011
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--a wrote:
furtiveking wrote:
--a wrote:
Well, I wouldn't trust McAfee, considering this site which was unknowingly spreading viruses is supposedly protected by them.
Personally, I would recommend using the Linux operating system and avoid the whole virus issue.
What? Are you saying that there's no such thing as a Linux virus? I hope not, because that's simply not true.
No, there are viruses for Linux, realistically you're just not ever going to get one.
I'll admit I've not run Linux in a few years, but, realistically, I've had one in the past. Plus, this site is developed to be used by folks who aren't as computer savvy as others, and Linux is still no where near as usable to folks who don't know computers well as Windows or MacOS.
Could we have some more information about what happened? Given that chess.com has my credit card information and other personal information, I'd like to know if they were hacked, as well as the specifics of what the hack was and how it happened.
Nov 14, 2011
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we had a 3rd party plugin that was temporarily vulnerable and put up a semi-dangerous link. we have disabled it permanently. there was no danger to your personal information.
sorry about that! dealing with 3rd party software is always a pain.
make sure you run your anti-virus/anti-malware software for a complete scan.
Nov 14, 2011
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Thanks erik, but if "there was no danger to your personal information" what sort of threat did this present that we should "make sure you run your anti-virus/anti-malware software for a complete scan"?
Nov 14, 2011
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@ontomorrow: It means, your personal information stored on the servers of chess.com were safe, but even if it's not very likely, you might have been infected on your personal computer.
You should run anti-virus and anti-malware scans regularly anyway.
