Re: Ads carrying trojans and viruses

Posted by weezy on Aug 20, 2011; 1:51am
URL: https://support.nabble.com/Ads-carrying-trojans-and-viruses-tp6700644p6705419.html

GregChapman wrote

Nabble are going to need clear, checkable, information about the offending ads, or the URLs that the adverts direct you to, before they can be expected to make a report to the advertising provider or take action against them.

As it stands, your general assertion, without any specifics, just sounds like unjustifiable scaremongering.

EDIT:  Oops! Looks like Peter responded while I was writing.

I just ran a full scan and removed a hidden driver in my rootkit after coming to my forums on Nabble and not going anywhere else on the web.  I came to Nabble Support to see if there was any response to my posting here and had my system start to act up -- without going anywhere else on the web.  I ran a rootkit scan and came up with the same malware  that came up in the previous scan I ran this evening noted as such:

\Device\mfeavf01.sys

Now, when I go to only one web locationand I've got a clean system when I start and I pick up malware while I'm there, I think it's reasonable to assume that I picked it up at that web location.  And now I'm going to sign off and scan my system again.  

for me and several of my forum members who don't happen to go to the same websites except Nabble, then it's either Nabble itself or the ads that showed up and we all got infected almost simultaneously and only after the ads show up and we've been posting for months and months, well that's a pretty damning coincidence.