Registered: 07/16/98
Posts: 6458
Loc: Sanford, Fl, USA
In answer to a couple of PM questions that have come to me this morning, this is just an FYI for those who may be receiving that message about a virus identified as "Exploit" (by multiple brands of virus checkers it seems) by many attempting to access that site today.
There is a post on their main forum saying this has happened before and they got rid of it, intimating that it may have been planted there by someone with a grudge, and that they will undoubtedly get rid of it again. I don't really see anything else about what is going on there posted by their monitors or site owner, so I guess it just up to those who frequent that site to "take it on faith" that there really is not a virus or whatever this thing is supposed to be. I guess if you are really worried you should try contacting that site owner directly ... for sure we are not really gonna have any more idea than you all about what is going on over there so it really won't do much good to keep emailing us about it.
For what is worth to y'all, my virus checker (AVG's latest version) picks it up on multiple pages and identifies multiple files that supposedly contain the virus, but does not seem to quarantine the "virus" and their data bank identifies it as a "threat" not a true virus.
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Your AVG diagnosis sounds as if it's more like a privacy "threat"--I suspect they've just taken money to install spyware to gather marketable statistics.
Obviously the best way to avoid any problem is just not to go there.
Registered: 07/16/98
Posts: 6458
Loc: Sanford, Fl, USA
Originally Posted By: 14tonks
Your AVG diagnosis sounds as if it's more like a privacy "threat"--I suspect they've just taken money to install spyware to gather marketable statistics.
Obviously the best way to avoid any problem is just not to go there.
That is sort of what I figured it must be too, some sort of spyware.
I guess some folks have their knickers in a twist over it, whatever it happens to be though and I do heartily agree with you, the simple answer would be simply not to go there if you don't like them gathering information that way. From the posts there it sort of sounds like it may have always been there, just remained hidden until (I would guess) they had the recent upheaval and all sorts of changes to their coding started happening.
They probably just need to rehide (the "fixed it before' that was mentioned) and then, to quote the immortal Chief Dan George (from the movie Outlaw Josie Wales) the folks who post and read there won't have any idea that it is "sneaking up on them" ... so to speak
so it really won't do much good to keep emailing us about it. 
