Oh No! I got a virus from a cycling site

[Aggie_Ama]

Men.




That's all I got.

LOL. It is like the funniest story about a guy I know. His buddy lived in an apartment that had some red button that activated an alarm or sprinklers or something for the floor. The friend was told "DO NOT TOUCH THIS BUTTON UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. I REPEAT IT CANNOT BE PUSHED". So of course the visitor had to. And the button did whatever it was supposed to which I think was set off the alarms thus dispatching the fire department or something like that. And the resident got a bill for it. I think was an old dorm, not sure.

My husband was probably hoping to prove me wrong. Silly man. Note I got the virus at 7:00 am central, he at 2:45 central so maybe he thought it had passed. I wonder how long those take to clear out? Seems like Bikejournal went down forever with something.

Thorn- It was internal pics cyclingnews posts. The ones embedded in their articles that you can "click to enlarge". Not sure if it matters and if I hadn't clicked I guess I would have been a-ok?

[Thorn]

Thorn- It was internal pics cyclingnews posts. The ones embedded in their articles that you can "click to enlarge". Not sure if it matters and if I hadn't clicked I guess I would have been a-ok?

I always run with "Prompt before running ActiveX controls" (yes, I'm an anal-retentive control freak and, yes, lots of people have told me I'm nuts, but it has reduced the number of problems I have, but, of course, not eliminated them). There actually are ActiveX controls on the zoomed image displays. Cyclingnews is actually one of the cleaner sites. They usually only have one or two controls/page.

A large proportion of times people have gotten viruses from large sites has not been due to a direct compromise to the site, but to the ad stream. Not only can the hacker get deeper coverage by getting into the ad stream, but it is harder to trace.

[ny biker]

FWIW, I looked at cyclingnews a couple of times yesterday and didn't have any problems. But I didn't click on any photos.

[Aggie_Ama]

Definitely the photos and definitely the site. No doubt since it is the only site DH and I both visited and now his computer at work is infected because he didn't listen and wanted to read cycling at lunch. My computer is still not fixed it is pretty hard core virus, my IT guy isn't sure there is a fix out for it yet.

I am staying far away from the site for the time being. Not worth it at all which stinks because I really like the site and don't think it has anything to do with them but no way at all would I touch it with a 10 foot pole and your computer.

I am just still annoyed because I can't get to half the stuff I need because I am on a back up computer. I have never gotten a virus that didn't auto correct when the virus checker saw it.

[chicago]

Definitely the photos and definitely the site. No doubt since it is the only site DH and I both visited and now his computer at work is infected because he didn't listen and wanted to read cycling at lunch. My computer is still not fixed it is pretty hard core virus, my IT guy isn't sure there is a fix out for it yet.

I am staying far away from the site for the time being. Not worth it at all which stinks because I really like the site and don't think it has anything to do with them but no way at all would I touch it with a 10 foot pole and your computer.

I am just still annoyed because I can't get to half the stuff I need because I am on a back up computer. I have never gotten a virus that didn't auto correct when the virus checker saw it.

go here...

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/

post under your operating system. these guys are great... they will help you. i have gotten rid of the worst viruses with the help of these peeps on here... good luck.