Pet Talk Issue

[Killearn Kitties]

On both Saturday and Sunday (before PT was shut down) I got a message that AVG had blocked malware. This was as soon as I clicked on the Pet Talk button from the Cat of the Day page. I have had no messages come up since you did the work.

[sasvermont]

I have been getting messages about malware as well. That's what the spyware software is suppose to do.

[carole]

Yes my AVG was picking up a virus too on Pet Talk, it happened to me twice, i was just about to pm Karen when i read this thread, so far nothing else, seems ok now.

[Pinot's Mom]

Was that before or after we shut Pet Talk down?

Karen - sorry I didn't answer this - I didn't see it until now. I don't know whether it was before or after, because I didn't know you shut down. I was on somewhere around 11-11:30 PM on Sunday.

[anna_66]

I had it happen a few times in the last week, but nothing so far.

[Karen]

I am glad to hear it isn't happening to anyone now, do PM me or post if it does!

[Taz_Zoee]

I'm glad to hear it wasn't my computer. I also called my brother because of strange happenings on my machine. It was Sunday when it happened to me (same thing as kokopup and pomtzu). I thought my computer was going to need a memorial thread.

Thank you Paul and Karen for keeping us safe here in our cyber-world!!

[Karen]

We are trying to keep it safe, and hope everyone will tell us if any malware pops up ever again! We do not not not want people to have to be afraid of coming to Pet Talk!

[Russian Blue]

Hi,

I dropped by (I think it was on the weekend) and had the same problem. But, as soon as I went to your homepage the 'attack' started.

When I would first come to the homepage, I looked at the bottom left of the screen and there you could see something was downloading (before the pop up actually appeared on the screen). The downloading came from 3 different websites (I'll email the links to you Karen - don't want to give them press).

I knew the pop up was fake but I couldn't close it so I had to shut down. I wanted to contact you, but I couldn't get on the site and didn't remember your email.

[Karen]

For the future, you can always email at [email protected] - easy enough?

[mrspunkysmom]

On both Saturday and Sunday (before PT was shut down) I got a message that AVG had blocked malware. This was as soon as I clicked on the Pet Talk button from the Cat of the Day page. I have had no messages come up since you did the work.

I have AVG and it didn't block it for me. However, I only got hit twice. I didn't ahve to shut down the computer but I did have ot close down IE. Or rather the attack shut down Ie when I shut it down.

[Karen]

Oh, maybe you need an updated version of AVG? Something you might want to check. And you might as well run a scan on your machine, just in case.

We are so sorry this happened to anyone.

[blue]

I normally only use my Ubuntu box to access PT so that might be why I didnt see anything before the shutdown.

[smokey the elder]

This is the first known malware attack I've ever heard of from this site. You and Paul have done a great job keeping it safe for many years!

[RICHARD]

I bought my machine in May and went with the Norton AV free trial, when that expired I bought another Norton program and installed that.

Until recently I would try to attach pics to a post and I would get some kind of warning telling me that I could not post them until I clicked on the warning and then I could go back and put them in like always.

Now, I get a nifty window that pops up and I can get the 'quick reply' window for my PMs. At first I thought it was the AV program because on some sites it tells me to either undo my pop up blocker or I could click on the content and see what was going on.



All the problems seem to have been resolved, but that was really weird and I thought it may have been part of the way I have the AV settings all tightened up. Now I do a weekly defrag and sys scan and everthing seems to work o.k.

Interesting information and I am glad nothing got screwed up on the site.