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05-10-2009, 02:11 AM | #1 |
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Attention: Hacker Alert!
Today I logged into the OOTP Forum where I have a Thread about Spanky's All Time Greats. I get by clicking on the following: (1) OOTP 9 - Mods (4 Viewing); (2) Rosters, Photos, and Quick-Starts; (3) All Time Greats ( 1 2 3 4 5 ... Last Page) Spanky; (4) Click here: All Sim Baseball.
Usually when I click on the link to "All Sim Baseball" I go the download page where Spanky's All Time Greats can be downloaded. However, today I was redirected to some strange webpage with an strange looking Angel and a message telling me that my computer has been invaded! I don't understand how this can happen on the OOTP website? It has never happened before. Is the forum not a secure place? Is my computer infected or is this some kind of practical joke? I don't find it funny at all! What should I do other than run antivirus? Is it possible that other OOTP forum pages or links have also been hijacked? Please help and advise. Spanky |
05-10-2009, 04:08 AM | #3 |
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05-10-2009, 04:33 AM | #4 |
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No, but whoever runs Allsimbaseball should be concerned, as someone hacked the site.
Should have no consequence for you, so you don't need to do anything on your computer. The problem is on the Allsimbaseball servers. |
05-10-2009, 04:36 AM | #5 |
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It's fidel's site which, as far as I know, has nothing to do with the OOTP company. It just hosts some users' OOTP sites. My guess is someone just hacked into his site and that by visiting it you should be fine (I visited it earlier and none of my alarms went off), but you should ask him to make sure.
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05-10-2009, 10:04 AM | #6 |
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If you didn't click on any links on the site you should be safe, but you can always run a virus scan if you feel uneasy.
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05-10-2009, 03:08 PM | #7 |
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Embedded Links
I clicked on the embedded link on the OOTP forum webpage. This link opened up the window with the ominous message I mentioned. How could this embedded link on the OOTP site be changed to open up an entirely different webpage unless the hacker gained access from the OOTP forum page?
Have you looked at the link? If not, I suggest you do so. Thanks Spanky |
05-10-2009, 03:22 PM | #8 |
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It's happened in 3 of my leagues as well. Always on the forum page(s) however. If i were guessing this makes the 3rd or 4th such occurance.
Visiting those forums didn't affect my PC at any time. I'd scan my PC just to be sure. |
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05-10-2009, 07:17 PM | #10 |
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I wouldn't say you are definitely safe. Odds are, if you keep your security patches up to date, you will be fine. There is no guarantee of course. You could have been the victim of cross-site scripting, which can be used to place malware onto your machine.
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05-11-2009, 03:15 AM | #11 |
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I just clicked on the link and it appears that all is fine now.
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05-11-2009, 08:49 AM | #12 |
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His page is back, but my avast popped up with a trojan horse alert, name: JS:Redirector-H [Trj]. So it seems it is worse now, not better.
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05-11-2009, 10:57 AM | #13 | |
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I wonder if he is aware of it or not.
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05-11-2009, 12:19 PM | #14 |
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Hey guys. I am aware of this issue. We did indeed have a security hack. I have restored the site but I must admit that I spend far more time taking care of my client websites than those of my own. I will be upgrading my site software this week so I should have this problem cleared up without issue. I apologize to any and everyone if you experienced any troubles accessing files or anything else at allsimbaseball.com
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05-11-2009, 03:07 PM | #15 |
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This is why they say that "the shoemaker's children have no shoes."
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05-11-2009, 06:08 PM | #16 |
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none of those links are clear yet.
Visit allsimbaseball, there is still the redirect trojan. I'm in Asahi2 Baseball, Fidel's league. Should you go to the website right now, and click on the league Calendar link... (DO NOT unless you are expert), the Trojan Horse JS:Redirector-H2[Trj] will be loaded onto your computer... Location: C:\Documents and Settings\Your Name\Local Settings\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\randomnumber.default \Cache\C07350C0d01 The current anti-virus program that is seeing this quickly is Avast. Just had to warn people that have tested this, that you probably do have a Trojan on your computer now.
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05-11-2009, 10:07 PM | #17 | |
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05-11-2009, 10:17 PM | #18 | |
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05-11-2009, 10:25 PM | #19 |
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yep, all good now great work as always.
And just to stress, Fidel is one of the best commissioners around, obviously not his fault.
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05-12-2009, 01:16 AM | #20 |
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Not if you are running Linux, as I am.
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