Yakezie.com - Topic: Possible site with a virus https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/possible-site-with-a-virus/ Simple:Press Version 4.5.1 TacklingOurDebt on Possible site with a virus https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/possible-site-with-a-virus/#p66966 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/possible-site-with-a-virus/#p66966 This is a good WordPress security site as well: http://wordpress-security.net/

]]> Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:39:35 +0000 Ted Jenkin @ YourSmartMoneyMoves on Possible site with a virus https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/possible-site-with-a-virus/#p66911 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/possible-site-with-a-virus/#p66911 Here are some tips for great tips for security on Wordpress:  http://www.shareaschnitzel.com.....-security/

]]> Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:25:11 +0000 BeatingBroke on Possible site with a virus https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/possible-site-with-a-virus/#p66882 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/possible-site-with-a-virus/#p66882 MoneyIsTheRoot said:

I reloaded the latest version of wordpress on budget snob again... it said something about clearing out a security threat in the process.

 

can you please go back on and see if a virus/malware is still showing?

 

Thanks!

I'm not getting any warnings now, so you might have gotten it.

]]> Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:12:02 +0000 MoneyIsTheRoot on Possible site with a virus https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/possible-site-with-a-virus/#p66876 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/possible-site-with-a-virus/#p66876 I reloaded the latest version of wordpress on budget snob again... it said something about clearing out a security threat in the process.

 

can you please go back on and see if a virus/malware is still showing?

 

Thanks!

]]> Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:01:24 +0000 BeatingBroke on Possible site with a virus https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/possible-site-with-a-virus/#p66868 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/possible-site-with-a-virus/#p66868 Aloysa said:

I use Norton. Would it pick up a virus on any of those sites? Or should I download Avast?

I don't know for sure if Norton would pick it up or not.  Avast picks it up because it's an internet security suite, designed to actively scan for the stuff.  As far as free AV solutions go, Avast is the best I've ever used.

]]> Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:41:26 +0000 My University Money on Possible site with a virus https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/possible-site-with-a-virus/#p66865 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/possible-site-with-a-virus/#p66865 Well that's good to know. Try going to your updates and re-installing the new version of wordpress. Tom @ The Canadian Finance Blog suggested it and so far it seems to have helped. Can anyone else confirm that we're clean?

]]> Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:32:12 +0000 Aloysa on Possible site with a virus https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/possible-site-with-a-virus/#p66855 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/possible-site-with-a-virus/#p66855 I use Norton. Would it pick up a virus on any of those sites? Or should I download Avast?

]]> Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:16:11 +0000 BeatingBroke on Possible site with a virus https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/possible-site-with-a-virus/#p66850 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/possible-site-with-a-virus/#p66850 when I visit afford-anything and my university money, I don't get any warnings, and Avast seems to pick up just about everything. 

]]> Thu, 16 Feb 2012 11:54:42 +0000 BeatingBroke on Possible site with a virus https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/possible-site-with-a-virus/#p66848 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/possible-site-with-a-virus/#p66848 MoneyIsTheRoot said:

Ive received two messages that my new site Budget Snob has a virus on it… not sure how to clean it when I dont have anything detecting a virus on it from my end.

 

How do you clean something you cant find???

When I visit the budget snob site, Avast is telling me that it's blocking something on the site.  Unfortunately, it doesn't tell me where it's coming from on the site, but it does tell me what the URL it's blocking is:

quebectalk.uni.me/index…..showthread

 

Hopefully that can help.

]]> Thu, 16 Feb 2012 11:52:15 +0000 MoneyIsTheRoot on Possible site with a virus https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/possible-site-with-a-virus/#p66823 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/possible-site-with-a-virus/#p66823 Ive received two messages that my new site Budget Snob has a virus on it... not sure how to clean it when I dont have anything detecting a virus on it from my end.

 

How do you clean something you cant find???

]]> Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:45:57 +0000 TacklingOurDebt on Possible site with a virus https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/possible-site-with-a-virus/#p66821 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/possible-site-with-a-virus/#p66821 Afford-Anything has a huge nasty virus on it. I visited last Thursday and it set off alarms on my PC. Unfortunately it also managed to launch on my machine and it took us 2 hours to completely clean it up.

]]> Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:36:34 +0000 PK @ DQYDJ on Possible site with a virus https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/possible-site-with-a-virus/#p66729 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/possible-site-with-a-virus/#p66729 I too had virus warnings on Afford-Anything and My University Money.  FWIW, they are gone this morning (avast! antivirus).

]]> Thu, 16 Feb 2012 07:12:48 +0000 Sustainable PF on Possible site with a virus https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/possible-site-with-a-virus/#p66603 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/possible-site-with-a-virus/#p66603 BeatingBroke said:

Spyware doctor is a good software but some of those programs like to block things as innocent as tracking cookies, so if you're getting something from Alexa, it's likely that it could just be a tracking cookie from the alexa widget.  (I say that without looking to see if they have the alexa widget or not.)

Also,

there is a redirect backdoor virus going around today.  It modifies the .htaccess file to redirect most common external referrers (facebook, google, etc) to some russian site.  Might not be a bad idea to do a google search on  your own sites today and make sure that you weren't hit.

I had Alexa toolbar installed @ work and corporate security detected it as a data mining threat and made me remove it.

]]> Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:47:01 +0000 My University Money on Possible site with a virus https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/possible-site-with-a-virus/#p66590 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/possible-site-with-a-virus/#p66590 I'm currently working on it. According to google webmaster and a few online scans, its clean. Thanks for everyone who brought this to our attention though. We use cloudflare so its strange that they missed it as well. I did a fresh install of wordpress and I'll be downloading all of the files from my host tomorrow to scan them with my personal antivirus software. Hopefully that will help. 

@ Beating Broke -We do have an alexa ranking widget in our footer, I'll check out that htaccess file as well :)

]]> Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:31:31 +0000 BeatingBroke on Possible site with a virus https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/possible-site-with-a-virus/#p66489 Bloggers Lair https://yakezie.com/forums/bloggers-lair/possible-site-with-a-virus/#p66489 Spyware doctor is a good software but some of those programs like to block things as innocent as tracking cookies, so if you're getting something from Alexa, it's likely that it could just be a tracking cookie from the alexa widget.  (I say that without looking to see if they have the alexa widget or not.)

Also,

there is a redirect backdoor virus going around today.  It modifies the .htaccess file to redirect most common external referrers (facebook, google, etc) to some russian site.  Might not be a bad idea to do a google search on  your own sites today and make sure that you weren't hit.

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