I was looking through threads for information.
Looking at this page, I tried going to Page 1 to see the OP.
I got this:
Edited by Nikolai Lubkiewicz, 23 May 2014 - 10:24 AM.
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Posted 22 May 2014 - 03:57 PM
Never use pictures or anything from a malware site please!
I was looking through threads for information.
Looking at this page, I tried going to Page 1 to see the OP.
I got this:
I was looking through threads for information.
Looking at this page, I tried going to Page 1 to see the OP.
I got this:
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Posted 23 May 2014 - 03:35 AM
Before you completely flip out, it's worth noting that memegenerator is generally safe and widely used. Rather than being some evil scheme for stealing your datas, it's a site that allows you to generate meme images and share them.
So, what's almost certainly happened isn't that someone's gone to a known malware site and grabbed an image because they have no care for internet safety. What's happened is that someone's made a meme and embedded it in the forums, as so often happens, and since then someone has hacked the memegenerator website and distributed malware through it. Google has no way of easily knowing whether a given resource from there is malware or not without testing each and every file, but as a service, Chrome marks domains where at least one instance of malware has been found. That means every page on these forums (and the countless other, non-PGI forums across the vast web) that has ever had a memegenerator image posted to it will now be flagged as "malicious", right back to when the forums first opened up, well pre-dating the attack, whether or not that content is actually malicious.
Depending on the hack used, it's probable that the images themselves aren't infected, and the real culprit is a script run when you visit the actual memegenerator site, though the ramifications of those slim chances being true are such that it's better to just let Chrome block them and carry on the way you came. Regardless, this isn't a case of bad practice on behalf of the forum community, and there is nothing PGI, IGP or anyone else managing these boards can do about it: eventually, memegenerator will get their site back under control, Google will remove them from their blacklist, and things will return to normal.
So, what's almost certainly happened isn't that someone's gone to a known malware site and grabbed an image because they have no care for internet safety. What's happened is that someone's made a meme and embedded it in the forums, as so often happens, and since then someone has hacked the memegenerator website and distributed malware through it. Google has no way of easily knowing whether a given resource from there is malware or not without testing each and every file, but as a service, Chrome marks domains where at least one instance of malware has been found. That means every page on these forums (and the countless other, non-PGI forums across the vast web) that has ever had a memegenerator image posted to it will now be flagged as "malicious", right back to when the forums first opened up, well pre-dating the attack, whether or not that content is actually malicious.
Depending on the hack used, it's probable that the images themselves aren't infected, and the real culprit is a script run when you visit the actual memegenerator site, though the ramifications of those slim chances being true are such that it's better to just let Chrome block them and carry on the way you came. Regardless, this isn't a case of bad practice on behalf of the forum community, and there is nothing PGI, IGP or anyone else managing these boards can do about it: eventually, memegenerator will get their site back under control, Google will remove them from their blacklist, and things will return to normal.
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Posted 23 May 2014 - 09:14 AM
Sparks Murphey, on 23 May 2014 - 03:35 AM, said:
Before you completely flip out, it's worth noting that memegenerator is generally safe and widely used. Rather than being some evil scheme for stealing your datas, it's a site that allows you to generate meme images and share them.
So, what's almost certainly happened isn't that someone's gone to a known malware site and grabbed an image because they have no care for internet safety. What's happened is that someone's made a meme and embedded it in the forums, as so often happens, and since then someone has hacked the memegenerator website and distributed malware through it. Google has no way of easily knowing whether a given resource from there is malware or not without testing each and every file, but as a service, Chrome marks domains where at least one instance of malware has been found. That means every page on these forums (and the countless other, non-PGI forums across the vast web) that has ever had a memegenerator image posted to it will now be flagged as "malicious", right back to when the forums first opened up, well pre-dating the attack, whether or not that content is actually malicious.
Depending on the hack used, it's probable that the images themselves aren't infected, and the real culprit is a script run when you visit the actual memegenerator site, though the ramifications of those slim chances being true are such that it's better to just let Chrome block them and carry on the way you came. Regardless, this isn't a case of bad practice on behalf of the forum community, and there is nothing PGI, IGP or anyone else managing these boards can do about it: eventually, memegenerator will get their site back under control, Google will remove them from their blacklist, and things will return to normal.
So, what's almost certainly happened isn't that someone's gone to a known malware site and grabbed an image because they have no care for internet safety. What's happened is that someone's made a meme and embedded it in the forums, as so often happens, and since then someone has hacked the memegenerator website and distributed malware through it. Google has no way of easily knowing whether a given resource from there is malware or not without testing each and every file, but as a service, Chrome marks domains where at least one instance of malware has been found. That means every page on these forums (and the countless other, non-PGI forums across the vast web) that has ever had a memegenerator image posted to it will now be flagged as "malicious", right back to when the forums first opened up, well pre-dating the attack, whether or not that content is actually malicious.
Depending on the hack used, it's probable that the images themselves aren't infected, and the real culprit is a script run when you visit the actual memegenerator site, though the ramifications of those slim chances being true are such that it's better to just let Chrome block them and carry on the way you came. Regardless, this isn't a case of bad practice on behalf of the forum community, and there is nothing PGI, IGP or anyone else managing these boards can do about it: eventually, memegenerator will get their site back under control, Google will remove them from their blacklist, and things will return to normal.
I know about all that but thanks.
I was not flipping out, simply passing on what happened.
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