Any virus issues in SB?

[ScubaSteve]

Not being a computer geek myself, I will say that I believe some viruses are created as time bombs as well so that they can plant themselves and launch at a certain point in time. That may also be a possibility. So it is possible that it is only a coincidence that it happened while you were surfing SB.

Just a thought

Heck....if the station is used by others then it is possible it has nothing to do with your browsing.....although I am sure it will not be possible to convince your boss of that.

 

[gypsyjim]

Correct on that last point!

I did try to point out that certain virus' can sleep undetected until they are prompted to wake up, by either time or a certain action on the part of the user, but I am looking like the bad guy right now.

That particular station is not used as much as others for surfing, except at lunchtime by myself. Hence, this fellow looks guilty right now!

Being our pricing and inventory entry point for the business the virus took out a very vital piece of equipment, and restoring it will cost a couple hundred$. In the short term at least SB is no longer welcome on our machines.

 

[Diver0001]

I was handling this report and I found a link (of the pretty free-diving woman) on the Myspace page that lead to a malware site. That page has since been disabled.

I do not believe that Scubaboard caused this problem.

R..

 

[gypsyjim]

Awesome! thanks.

Now, if I can just get my boss to understand it was not SB, but a myspace link to a pic.
Dam hot chick pics get you every time, and this was even a pic of a friend!

 

[gypsyjim]

Thank you very much Diver0001, for tracking this down, and putting the blame for the virus off of SB and where it belongs. Unfortunately, that is on me, and a careless click.

Please close this thread. Thanks!

 

[gypsyjim]

Well, my boss had mixed feelings last evening when I called him to say we discovered the likely source of the virus, and that it was not from within the ScubaBoard web site at all.

He was NOT thrilled that the virus seems to have come from clicking on an image of a pretty girl in a friends myspace page, because HE is far more often the one to click on pictures of pretty ladies that friends have posted or sent to him, than I am!

From what I have read recently, pictures of women, and especially hot celebrities, are the single most common source of such infections.

I just never expected a picture of a friend, on another friend's page to be infected tho. You can never let your guard down at all I guess.

 

[Cave Diver]

I just never expected a picture of a friend, on another friend's page to be infected tho. You can never let your guard down at all I guess.

More than likely they didn't even know. My guess is the picture is not from them, but rather they used Google to find the image and just happened to pick one that was infected. You can hover your mouse over an image and it should give you the web address down at the bottom of your browser. If it's redirecting you to a different site, use caution in clicking it.

Just out of curiosity I followed the link and got this message:

Sorry, you have reached a link that is no longer accessible due to one or more of the following:

- A reported spammer site

- A reported Phishing Site: A site designed to trick the user into giving up user name and passwords.

- A site which contains malware

- A site that currently contains a lot of spam

- The user entered HTML syntax was inaccurate.


If you believe, you have received this message in error, please contact customer support here.

Note: The specific link may be OK, but the webhost may be the issue. For example, if you are trying to visit a blog or page on some webhost, the specific site or blog may be benign, but because the host/company won't work with Myspace security to block other malicious sites on their domain, we are sometimes forced to block the entire domain.

 

[gypsyjim]

More than likely they didn't even know. My guess is the picture is not from them, but rather they used Google to find the image and just happened to pick one that was infected. You can hover your mouse over an image and it should give you the web address down at the bottom of your browser. If it's redirecting you to a different site, use caution in clicking it.

Just out of curiosity I followed the link and got this message:

I believe Diver0001 may have "fixed" that link after we figured out where my mistake had been made. It was in discussions between us that I figured out exactly what I had done wrong.

 

[HowardE]

I believe what Cave Diver is saying is that the link has been removed from myspace as well.

 

[Diver0001]

I believe Diver0001 may have "fixed" that link after we figured out where my mistake had been made. It was in discussions between us that I figured out exactly what I had done wrong.

I didn't fix it. I think Myspace got a lot of reports from people who liked the way your friend looks while freediving and they blocked it themselves.

Cave Diver was right, the link lead to another website. I don't remember the name.

R..