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ATTN: People that visited any snesmusic.org/hoot sites in the last few days by Knurek at 3:44 PM EST on January 4, 2009

So, Hoot Archive, GBS Penultimate Archive and kingshriek's ripsites.

Seems someone hacked their way into the account (don't really have a clue how, why and when) and put some malware droppers into each html file.

If you're sensible and have an antivirus with up to date bases you should be okay (though I'd do a thorough check just to be on a safe site).

If not, or god forbid you still use IE, I'm sorry to say but most probably your system is infected. Do a web antivirus scan (there's some free ones available, Kaspersky for instance) ASAP.

by Lunar at 3:53 PM EST on January 4, 2009

Christ.

Well, I'm using firefox and have AVG/Zone Alarm open at all times. I'm guessing I should be okay. I am overdue for an adware scan anyway though.

btw, I've had that happen on my own website :\ one day I go to visit some pages on my site and I find they have redirects in them.

by nensondubois at 4:59 PM EST on January 4, 2009

I'm using Firefox and and well I'm not telling what antivirus I'm using (for security reasons). Will this be fixed?

by Knurek at 5:01 PM EST on January 4, 2009

I did remove (hopefully) all links to malware, can't say for sure something won't get added again (dunno where the security hole was/is).

by unknownfile at 6:50 PM EST on January 4, 2009

lol noscript

by Elven Spellmaker at 9:43 PM EST on January 4, 2009

I thought something was up with the site. I use IE7/8, and AntiVir brought up a virus notice, twice about a PDF file... I kept refreshing to see if it was the site or something that had randomly got it, but it was the site, I thought thats odd... I quarantined them all.

Thanks for letting us know, I was worried for a while there. =)



But now yeah, it doesn't do it so thats ok then. =)

I hate FireFox, so don't even ask me to use it.

edited 9:51 PM EST January 4, 2009

by nensondubois at 10:06 PM EST on January 4, 2009

Wow! It's popping out of the template!
Noscript works very well, uf.

by Dais! at 2:27 AM EST on January 5, 2009

so, uh, does "last few days" include the last 24 hours?

(by the way, do I need to do something special to get PC game sets to work in HOOT?)

by Knurek at 3:07 AM EST on January 5, 2009

(by the way, do I need to do something special to get PC game sets to work in HOOT?)

Those on site? No, they're selfcontained, like those for other systems.

by CyberSpark at 1:14 PM EST on January 5, 2009

I was never one for all those firewalls/blockers programs as they would just suck up a lot of my computer's resources, instead, I opted for BlackViper's guide, it actually is really effective. Instead of installing new software you would turn off some Windows services that are potential security holes for viruses. (Disable Protected Storage!)

Been running 2 years without getting viruses through the internet and I actually have more of my computer's resources available. :) Oh yeah, I wouldn't use IE if I were you either, Firefox 3 + No Script plug-in = BEST SECURITY EVER! :D

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