Malware on Operation Clambake?

secularpatriot · Joined: 04 Apr 2005 Posts: 296 Location: USA

I have been getting this message when I visit Operation Clambake:

Warning: Visiting this site may harm your computer

The website you are visiting appears to contain malware. Malware is malicious software that may harm your computer or otherwise operate without your consent. Your computer can be infected just by browsing to a site with malware, without any further action on your part.

For detailed information about problems found on this site, or a portion of this site, visit the Google Safe Browsing diagnostic page for xxxxxxxx.xx.

Anyone know if this is a real problem?

--SP

(Edited to remove possibly dangerous link.)

pharbizorg · Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 4:36 am Post subject:

I'm interested in what your specs are: (ie Operating System, Antivirus, etc...)

I am currently running Avast Antivirus (link here) and on Windows 7 (the latest out from Microsoft). I get no messages, but I do recall something similar of this nature that someone brought up a year or two ago. If you can provide what OS you use, your antivirus, and the signature that is being triggered so that I might do some more inquiries into the alert.
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secularpatriot · Joined: 04 Apr 2005 Posts: 296 Location: USA

Another Surfer · Joined: 08 Dec 2007 Posts: 293

I receive this message, too, when accessing the International Picket Central message board: <removed link, sorry -- obviously didn't think that through!>

I have Windows Live OneCare (yeah, lame in some ways).

It might be due to links posted to this part of the site.

I have not visited it since receiving this message some weeks ago. Bummer, for sure, and I will endeavor to get some better internet condom (ha) so that I can get more info re what the problem is.

Here is what I see (big warning, red background),

Old Bomber · Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 11:08 am Post subject:

I just checked the link you posted with my Mac running the same version with Norton anti virus and firefox, then with my pc running xp, firefox and Avir antivirus. Didn't get any warnings.
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Simonymous · Joined: 26 Feb 2008 Posts: 786

The good news is you're on a Mac. Even if there is a virus, you won't catch it! There's almost no Mac viruses, and the ones that do exist are little more than irritating joke programs or only affect really old operating systems.

That doesn't really answer the question, and it doesn't help anyone on a PC... but hopefully it allays a bit of worry.
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Peter Schilte · Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 4:12 pm Post subject:

Running ESET Smart Security on Windows XP-Pro-SP3 I get no warning whatsoever.
My guess is it is a false positive, generated by an overconcerned safety program.

Peter
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Gumbythetruth · Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 4:30 pm Post subject:

Also on a Mac. Nothing on my end appears as Malware. I have had warnings, when on Google. When i find something of interest and the link is located in some eastern european country. Most of those countries are former soviet bloc entities.

Ah! the wild wild east.
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Sponge · Joined: 10 Apr 2006 Posts: 9580 Location: U.K.

GreatSunJester · Joined: 23 Aug 2005 Posts: 224

Quick testing here. I get the same message. Google Chrome give me that message and prevents the site from loading. Nod32 sees nothing with internet Explorer 7.

Another machine with AVG detects java web exploits from cximnik.cn and xfcg.info
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carol · Joined: 11 Dec 2005 Posts: 398

I received that message last week a couple of times. I have AVG protection on my non mac computer.
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secularpatriot · Joined: 04 Apr 2005 Posts: 296 Location: USA

SchwimmelPuckel · Joined: 10 Feb 2006 Posts: 2242 Location: Denmark

Seems to be a problem with GCounter (A traffic statistic system that is linked to on the page).. The following link is Google's warning about it.

http://google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=gcounter.cn/

<edit.. > Bleh.. Ididn't notice that Sponge mentioned this already.. /edit>

Hmm.. I did click the link before the warnings.. I trusted my AV software, Mc Afee.. No alerts from that. But the computer started downloading stuff while ignoring any input device.. I yanked the wallplug.

Cool

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admin · Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 7:49 am Post subject:

gcounter[DOT]cn is not a Google site, actually it is a site that Google warn about as being malware. Most likely you have already been infected with malware on your computer if you get this warning. This is a malware trying to send you to their own site.

OCMB is not infected.

You can check this link that OCMB does not have malware:
http://safebrowsing.clients.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=http://ocmb.xenu.net/
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Sponge · Joined: 10 Apr 2006 Posts: 9580 Location: U.K.

Andreas,
you have a page on this site (see my previous post and the quoted post within it) where "index.htm" is downloading "readme.pdf" which are identified by AVG antivirus as "JS/Obfuscated" and "Exploit.pdf" respectively. This much is real.

First of all just look at the above because several people have now confirmed that as happening.

I don't know if the gcounter.cn thing is related and i speculated that it might be a malware site where the above exploit is invisibly redirecting to (because other people reported that but all I see is what google safe browing report says). The main thing, as far as I can see, is what I said above.
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