Virus alert when joining to forum

[Kimmo89]

This happened now twice inside a week.

Avast program alerts a virus when joining to discussion board, first opens a diffirent site called url4short(dot)info/e2df26f7.

 

And its only this forum.

 

Moderators may want to see what is this problem.

[ghunt]

I have checked and it doesn't seem to be coming from our system. Is there any chance there is something on your own system that could be causing this behaviour?

[Kimmo89]

It might be that it comes when I join here from google and going straight to forums - pegbox.

At least this has not happened yet when I go to the main site first.

 

My computer should be clean.

 

Me and many others had same type of proplem in the finnish auction sites earlier this year, when joining in site trough e-mail link.

It then redirected and alerted something.

 

And like I said it only happens when I join here.

 

But I dont know if anyone else havent got this same issue.

If I figure it out, I let you know.

[Fjodor]

This has happened to me also for a few days when clicking on a Google search result linking to Maestronet, It seems to be a vulnerability in the ip-board software.

 

Here is a link with a similar scenario http://peter.upfold.org.uk/blog/2013/01/15/cleaning-up-the-ip-board-url4short-mess/

[Kimmo89]

Too much Computer words for me behind that link.

 

So is this problem in my computer or what?

 

 

With this english and those words, I understand almost nothing.

[Conor Russell]

I'm getting it too, but if I go back and try again, pegbox opens up fine.

[Fjodor]

Kimmo, the problem is most likely on the server side software and not your computer.

[franciscus]

The same thing happened to me, I've reported this alarm to Avast as "false positive" two days ago.

[Kimmo89]

Im not sure if its positive since it opens simply but dangerous looking site.

I havent seen what it says in that site because I try to close the browser as soon as the alert comes.

 

It seems to be that it wont happen if you go to Maestronet homepage first.

[franciscus]

This mess is still active.

[Rue]

My netbook (with McAfee) also cites Maestronet as a dangerous site and posts warnings...

 

...and for some reason, when I click on Maestronet links...I also constantly get this page

 

:http://url4short.info/e2df26f7

[Richf]

I don't know if this is at all related, but.... Recently, whenever I use google to search something on Maestronet (eg, entering "corner blocks Maestronet"), the first thing that appears on my screen (not in my search results) is a totally unrelated and suspicious-looking webpage.  I close that and reenter my search, and the Maestronet results usually appear on that second try.  ???

 

Richard

[franciscus]

It is not new and it is not only on with MN- for example, look at here: http://www.mapleleafweb.com/forums/topic/22304-url4shortinfo-redirects/

[Richf]

Thanks. Yes, that's the kind of redirect -- just tried it again and learned that I had wond a $million!   I had a virus related to redirect a couple years ago but got it off my machine.  The only time I see it is with MN, but clearly it affects other sites, too.

 

Richard

[ghunt]

Ok this issue has now been resolved.

[Peter K-G]

Ok this issue has now been resolved.

 

Good, it has been a little bit annoying. You have probably read this (it's another Peter, not me):

http://peter.upfold.org.uk/blog/2013/01/15/cleaning-up-the-ip-board-url4short-mess/

[franciscus]

Ok this issue has now been resolved.

[Kimmo89]

This redirect is still happening.

[Peter K-G]

This redirect is still happening.

 

It's back, yes.

[kenlew]

I get it also from Google search links.

[ghunt]

It comes back, and I remove it, and then it comes back .... trying to find and fix the hole now.

[ghunt]

I didn't post back here but the issue was resolved on the 21st, and has not come back. If you are still experiencing issues, please post back here.