randomly my anti-virus program (avast!) will warn me about AG. this happens without any real pattern and this site is the only one that does it. it's been happening for a while...it was fixed when it got really bad...then it started again. the problem is, once it does it, that thread will not work or it won't let me reply.
what's the story? i'm going to see if i can report a false positive the next time to see if that helps. but, what makes it happen? this is the only vbulletin forum, or any forum, for that matter, where this happens for me.
'09 Mercedes-Benz C 63 AMG / '14 Audi Q5 3.0S-Line / '99.5 Pathfinder SE
does it give you the name of the the alert, or what it is? I will do a search and see if I can find anything. Sometimes there could be hidden scripts inside images or links that go to a website that has been flagged. Do you remember any of the other post that gave you a warning.
randomly my anti-virus program (avast!) will warn me about AG. this happens without any real pattern and this site is the only one that does it. it's been happening for a while...it was fixed when it got really bad...then it started again. the problem is, once it does it, that thread will not work or it won't let me reply.
what's the story? i'm going to see if i can report a false positive the next time to see if that helps. but, what makes it happen? this is the only vbulletin forum, or any forum, for that matter, where this happens for me.
This happened right around the Autopia site takeover. You will need to go into avast and disable web scanning or add "Autogeek" URL into the exclusion list.
There is vast amounts of knowledge at your fingertips, use Google, Youtube, and the search button.
thanks. i'll do that next. i'm not totally comfortable having a site excluded just in case there is a real threat but at least i'll be able to use the forum without issue!
here is what it says when it happens -
EDIT: welp, AG image attachment size limits strike again. hold on...let me go host it somewhere else :sheesh:
here:
'09 Mercedes-Benz C 63 AMG / '14 Audi Q5 3.0S-Line / '99.5 Pathfinder SE
Recently I've seen a number of old thread brought back to life. Nothing wrong with this in my book because in most cases the information contained is just as relevant today as when the thread was created.
That said,
I've noticed a bunch of old threads and even new threads replied to by new members and the posts are more or less gibberish. At least the single sentence doesn't really align with the conversation taking place in the thread.
So I hit the Quote reply so I can then go to Editor Mode and take a peak at their code and I've been noticing a common denominator and that is the new person making the post has included a picture file that ends in .png
But the picture doesn't show up?
I recently remarked about this new trend in a thread that was just moved to the Moderators forum for these reasons.
However, I documented my reply by taking a screen shot to show you instead of copying and pasting my reply.
Here's the screenshot....
Maybe someone with a lot of spam background can shed some light?
Recently I've seen a number of old thread brought back to life. Nothing wrong with this in my book because in most cases the information contained is just as relevant today as when the thread was created.
That said,
I've noticed a bunch of old threads and even new threads replied to by new members and the posts are more or less gibberish. At least the single sentence doesn't really align with the conversation taking place in the thread.
So I hit the Quote reply so I can then go to Editor Mode and take a peak at their code and I've been noticing a common denominator and that is the new person making the post has included a picture file that ends in .png
But the picture doesn't show up?
I recently remarked about this new trend in a thread that was just moved to the Moderators forum for these reasons.
However, I documented my reply by taking a screen shot to show you instead of copying and pasting my reply.
Here's the screenshot....
Maybe someone with a lot of spam background can shed some light?
Okay so I know I'm new here but I've been a lurker for a while and just decided to sign up.
This is been intriguing me so I did some research tonight and it seems that code can be embedded into a .png file that when saved onto a server can spread a virus.
Okay so I know I'm new here but I've been a lurker for a while and just decided to sign up.
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Originally Posted by joe_sun
This is been intriguing me so I did some research tonight and it seems that code can be embedded into a .png file that when saved onto a server can spread a virus.
I was intrigued (and interested), in how a tiny little .png file hidden from view in a message could cause trouble but the article you linked to explained it very well.
I did show this thread to the Admin last night for our forum and he was aware of the problem associated with the malware being used in .png files and told me to delete every post by andara
I'll pass this info along to our Moderators and moving forward, ANYTIME we our our forum members see a new member join and start to post one-liner gibberish replies to new or older threads then please REPORT it so at least someone can take a look to see if the .png file is in fact in their posts.
By the way, anyone that knows their way around vBulletin can do this. Simply use the QUOTE reply to snag the full text of the persons post and then view it in Editor Mode.
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