[RTTY] FW: QRZ.com virus

[David Levine]

Scott and others.

Visiting QRZ won't cause the malware people have reported to get installed.
I'm pretty sure you need to take an action (click a pop-up alert, etc) or
download something and AFTER that you would see what was reported. You
certainly wouldn't see it just by visiting a web page.

Now if you don't use Internet Explorer as your main browser, you wouldn't
know you had an issue until you used IE directly or through PathFinder
which uses IE no matter what web browser you have as your default and THEN
you'd see the problem. Also these malware programs don't show up on every
page you visit, you so you could have the issue and visit many pages and it
wouldn't necessary bring up any alert.

You also say you "got it twice". What does that mean? How do you know QRZ
was the culprit or are you basing it on others reporting it? What was the
malware? What browser do you normally use?

I can't of course guarantee QRZ wasn't the cause, but it's visited by 10's
of thousands of folks a day and if there was a virus, there would be
reports all over their forums and I don't think you'd find any reports of
an issue.

73,
David - K2DSL


On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 12:02 AM, Scott Long <k8sm at windstream.net> wrote:

> I didn't even click on any side bars and got it twice.  Had to run Spybot
> to
> get rid of the junk.  I won't be visiting QRZ dot com anymore.
>
> Scott, K8SM
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rtty-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:rtty-bounces at contesting.com] On
> Behalf Of David VE3VID
> Sent: Friday, December 30, 2011 8:15 PM
> To: RTTY contest group
> Subject: Re: [RTTY] FW: QRZ.com virus
>
>
> So can we avoid the mal-ware if we don't click on any of the side-bar
> advertising?
>
> http://www.ve3vid.webs.com/
>
>
> > Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 16:38:31 -0800
> > From: ws7ik7tj at gmail.com
> > To: rtty at contesting.com
> > Subject: Re: [RTTY] FW:  QRZ.com virus
> >
> > Virus/Trojan comes in the Ad's that those people run to fund their
> > sites.  FireFox and Adblock do away with them.  They are also found on
> > various college sports sites a lot.
> >
> > On 12/30/2011 4:29 PM, David VE3VID wrote:
> > > From: ve3vid at hotmail.com
> > > To: wa8hc1 at charter.net
> > > Subject: RE: [RTTY] QRZ.com virus
> > > Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 19:28:58 -0500
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Is QRZ.com still infected?  How were you picking up the mal-ware?  A
> QRZ
> search?
> > > David
> > >
> > > http://www.ve3vid.webs.com/
> > >
> > >
> > >> From: WA8HC1 at charter.net
> > >> To: rtty at contesting.com
> > >> Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 12:16:03 -0500
> > >> Subject: [RTTY] QRZ.com virus
> > >>
> > >> I think this is a Scareware type attack.. Scared the H___ out of me..
> Trying to sell bogus Anti Virus software..  I've had it happen also from
> other sites.. The fix has been to reset your computer to a safe start point
> a couple of days before this happened..
> > >>
> > >> GL,
> > >>
> > >> Harry N Coates
> > >> WA8HC1 at charter.net
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