Images loading viruses on chess.com

Hello

I was just lurking around and when I tried to visit someone's profile I got alerted by my antivirus software about a virus.

The profile in question is: [mod: removed link to infected profile]

The virus is trying to be loaded inside the user's avatar. You can check the attached image:

Please do something about this as other users visiting his profile without an antivirus might get their computers infected.

Regards,

Costin

MS Security Essentials also detects this (as Backdoor:PHP/WebShell.A ).

So you posted a link to the person's profile so that anyone curious enough to check can go and get infected?

If this truly is a serious issue (and not a false-positive by over-zealous antivirus software or the result of malware that already exists on your system), then report it officially (and quietly) here:

http://support.chess.com/Tickets/Submit

@omnipaul: yes, I have posted the link here so the moderators should know who the person responsible is, and as I posted the warning as well, I couldn't imagine anyone "curious" enough to click that link, instead they should have stayed away of that user's profile.

As regarding the link to the support, I didn't know about it, I don't use this website as much as you probably do.

Regards,

Costin

HI there

For image loading issues,i usually use this code to do that:

namespace RE__Test
{
 public partial class Form1 : Form
 {
 public Form1()
 {
 InitializeComponent();
 }

 private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
 {
 string fileName = "c:/Sample.png";

 REImage reImage = REFile.OpenImageFile(fileName);

 REFile.SaveImageFile(reImage, "c:/reimage.png", new PNGEncoder());
It can work effectively.You can also have a try.

           I think staff has delt with it; it was posted 3 moths ago.