Spam on chrome through Arbtalk

[Adam M]

Had it on my wife's work laptop this eve.

[Justme]

I have been getting this for a long time.

 

I have reported it but fobbed off with it being my issue & not anything to do with Arbtalk.

 

It only happens here & over the last week or so ALL arbtalk pages take ages to load.

[peatff]

I've had it a few times but never on arbtalk, don't click on the page just press reset on the computer and run malwarebytes after restart just in case but if you click on the page it will install a fake scan and stop you opening malware checkers. It's ransomware I got it popping up whilst trying to find film downloads and free plans for different things.

[Moony]

Had it on my work PC last week, the first time I ever looked at arbtalk at work!! Using Google chrome! Just rebooted PC.

[wicklamulla]

yep it got me too.

[NFG]

Hmm,

 

Not much technical info to go on but it looks like a cross site scripting attack & as stated by Mr B its unlikely to be anything afecting the Arbtalk server itself, unfortunately most web browsers are fairly vulnerable & if you want to improve your web browsers security I would:

 

1. Install the add on No Script to FF & Safari, Im not sure if it works with IE or Chrome but there should be something similar. Once installed you then permit scripts on web sites which makes your browser much more secure. GITF for more.

 

2. Install the add on 'Ublock Origin' or AdBlock if you dont already use an adblocker, it will speed up your browsing & reduce the risk of a hostile ad attack. You can whitelist sites such as Arbtalk where the ads are generally useful.

 

3. Install the add on 'Ghostery' which controls tracking cookies a lot of sites use, some which can be hostile.

 

4. If you dont use a decent AV solution, try Sophos Home, it's very good & free and also blocks known attack sites

 

5. If you're a bit more adventurous & you track down where its coming from then you just need to add the line to your hosts file:

 

127.0.0.1 nastysite.com

 

nastysite.com being the origin of the attack & will be forever resolved to the loopback IP & thus your browser will ignore it.

 

Once installed one visit to dailymail.co.uk will show you the heaps of crap that are filtered out, if you bank on-line then I strongly recommend NoScript.

 

This is only the briefest response to what is an ever increasing problem and please be assured the above add ons do work very well as Ive trialed them on some extremely aggresive malware sites.

 

take care

 

 

N

Edited January 30, 2017 by NFG

[TIMON]

I got hit with this on work PC today. Couldn't close out of it so had to shut the PC down.

[stewmo]

Hmm,

 

 

 

Not much technical info to go on but it looks like a cross site scripting attack & as stated by Mr B its unlikely to be anything afecting the Arbtalk server itself, unfortunately most web browsers are fairly vulnerable & if you want to improve your web browsers security I would:

 

 

 

1. Install the add on No Script to FF & Safari, Im not sure if it works with IE or Chrome but there should be something similar. Once installed you then permit scripts on web sites which makes your browser much more secure. GITF for more.

 

 

 

2. Install the add on 'Ublock Origin' or AdBlock if you dont already use an adblocker, it will speed up your browsing & reduce the risk of a hostile ad attack. You can whitelist sites such as Arbtalk where the ads are generally useful.

 

 

 

3. Install the add on 'Ghostery' which controls tracking cookies a lot of sites use, some which can be hostile.

 

 

 

4. If you dont use a decent AV solution, try Sophos Home, it's very good & free and also blocks known attack sites

 

 

 

5. If you're a bit more adventurous & you track down where its coming from then you just need to add the line to your hosts file:

 

 

 

127.0.0.1 nastysite.com

 

 

 

nastysite.com being the origin of the attack & will be forever resolved to the loopback IP & thus your browser will ignore it.

 

 

 

Once installed one visit to dailymail.co.uk will show you the heaps of crap that are filtered out, if you bank on-line then I strongly recommend NoScript.

 

 

 

This is only the briefest response to what is an ever increasing problem and please be assured the above add ons do work very well as Ive trialed them on some extremely aggresive malware sites.

 

 

 

take care

 

 

 

 

 

N

 

 

Thanks NFG. I'll have a proper look at home this eve

[NFG]

I almost forgot foolishIT...

 

https://www.foolishit.com/cryptoprevent-malware-prevention/

 

They have a nice little utility that will stop a wide variety of ransmware type attacks.

 

Foolish not to really?

 

N

[benedmonds]

I can no longer look at arbtalk on my pc or laptop. It is ONLY on arbtalk. On chrome or explorer. I have run several maleware prevention programs. Takes over browser and have to reset.