Attack Site

[Night Hawk]

I am having issues logging on to view a newsfeed story.

http://www.flyer.co.uk/news/newsfeed.php?artnum=1200

Firefox is flagging this as an attack site (pick on facebook flyer page)

NH

[tech guy]

Hi NH,

Unfortunately we are still waiting for google to lift the warning on the news pages.

We have been informed '... that it can take some time for this change to propagate.'

Hopefully normal service will be resumed shortly

Regards

Liam

[kilburnflyer]

Google Chrome flagging this URL up

http://www.flyer.co.uk/news/newsfeed.php?artnum=1200

[Keef]

The same one. Google is being rather slow in removing the flag.

[PaulB]

After days of being OK, Chrome is once again saying that the general forum pages are not safe. (Was OK 7 hours ago, but isn't now.)

[CaptCrispy]

Same for me in Firefox, here's an image if it helps ...

[G-BLEW]

It seems this site has been the target of a specific attack. We have sorted the problem and are now waiting for Google to re-visit in order to lift the warning.

Thanks

Ian

[Timothy]

No problem on the iPad

[wsmempson]

Still coming up with a malware warning from google chrome.

[peterh337]

I don't know why this is but the flyer.co.uk server is getting infected rather often.

One wonders how many peoples' PC end up with trojans installed as a result.

I know attackers like to attack sites that use the standard off the shelf forum/blog software but e.g. Pprune doesn't seem to have been hit successfully for a very long time and that is off the shelf too.

The last Flyer infection I had a look at used the advertising feeds. I now have them blocked in Firefox.

[G-BLEW]

The last Flyer infection I had a look at used the advertising feeds. I now have them blocked in Firefox.

The last one had nothing to do with the advertising. We believe it was a targeted attack, we have fixed it and we're working on the whole security question.

Ian

[Keef]

If the malicious eejits doing this can hack (for example) the Pentagon and police computers, what chance has the Flyer site got if they choose to go after it?

The fact that most people's PCs warned them that there was some "package" on the website is enough evidence that every PC should have decent security and protection software. There's plenty of good, capable free stuff out there.

None of which applies to iPads and their ilk, which are invulnerable.

[Colonel Panic]

JAAMOI, I'm using Safari on OSX 10.7 and never get any such warnings. Is that a weakness of Safari or a strength of 10.7 ?

[Keef]

I think it means that the nasty that the rogues put on the site doesn't attack Macs, or that Macs don't watch out for nasties, or both.

I would think you're immune.