ffxiah hacked?

[Gergall]

An LS member just got this from Norton Antivirus while browsing FFXIAH:

An intrusion attempt by sennymore.com was blocked. Application path /DEVICE/HARDDISKVOLUME1/PROGRAM FILES (X860/INTERNET EXPLORER/IEXPLORER.EXE.
Threat High

I did a quick whois and sennymore.com was registered on Feb 25 2009 - less than a month ago. The registrant used a free generic email address at mail.com. The home page at sennymore.com is just a blank page.

Looks a little fishy.

Of course if FFXIAH did get hacked it seems likely they might discover and fix it pretty fast. Anyone else notice anything suspicious?

[Kryssan]

Nothing wrong for me here. Either it's a particular ad maybe that the script is in or it doesn't target a computer running Linux.

[Diamicles]

LOL IE

[Kriz]

I got a Chrome warning on FFXIAH from a banner site today. I don't much mind, I know that sometimes nasty banners get in there.

[antihero]

LOL anything but firefox

this

[rog]

this is why we use firefox+adblock+noscript.

[Spekkio]

adblock=no more poison banner ads. this comes up once a month or two and every time it's the same answer. we need to just sticky this. here is the generic answer to cut and paste for every person who thinks ffxiah is trying to break into their computer.

ffxiah subscribes to banner ads so they can pay their hosting and other fees. sometimes these banner ad companies do not do a proper check on the content they pass along to their subscribers. these can thus contain viruses. the best way to defend against these poison banner ads is to run firefox with adblock and noscript. with the combination of these 2 elements, you should be protected from the majority if not all threats that come from banner ads, not to mention no longer have any seizures from "punch the monkey and win a ps3."

[Gergall]

I use FF and noscript. I just thought some people might be running IE out there so they might want to know about this.

[SephYuyX]

I use IE + common sense and that ='s fine.

[Pikarya]

Looks safe here boss.

http://www.imagebeast.net/images/tfu...epp9q0ph4j.jpg

[Raineer]

I use IE + common sense and that ='s fine.

Still doesn't prevent some malicious banner code or redirects.

[Demosthenes11]

I use IE + common sense and that ='s really fuckin stupid when firefox is 100x better and protects you, not to mention it takes only about 2 minutes to set up.

FTFY

[SephYuyX]

*shrug* MS pays my bills so I support them. Ive never had a problem with anything MS related, and I find IE better than FF.

[Kerberoz]

wtf @ allowing quantserve

*shrug* MS pays my bills so I support them. Ive never had a problem with anything MS related, and I find IE better than FF.

The fact that you see ads is a problem.

[Silenka]

Yeah...

JCPenney pays my bills but I think their clothes are kind of ugly so I don't really buy them. Why settle for that when I can get something cheaper and nicer-looking from somewhere else?

[Jaregue]

so is adblock+noscrip a replacement for old ass chromedit?

[cdgreg]

*shrug* MS pays my bills so I support them. Ive never had a problem with anything MS related, and I find IE better than FF.

Common mentality until you find your account PW changed. I used to be one of those "it won't happen to me" guys.

[dejet]

its only a matter of time if you use IE. nothing showed up on my scans but i changed my PWs anyways...

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UgjPeSn5Ft...n+Roulette.jpg

[Nymphadora]

Dang, you'd still be using plenty of MS products if you switched from IE. Least you could do is install firefox for your ff related favorites even if you want to keep using IE for everything else. I personally feel naked using IE, and I used to favor IE over firelfox until I played for a while and began to see that there are so many security holes in IE that if you have an account on a game ~any game~ you're in trouble.

That said, I still hardly ever go onto FFXIAH anymore because of those banners, and I use noscript and adblock. I try to be as careful as I can.

[rog]

and I used to favor IE over firelfox until I played for a while and began to see that there are so many security holes in IE that if you have an account on a game ~any game~ you're in trouble.

or if you have a bank account/credit card, or if you don't want your pc to run faster, or...well, basically if you use your computer for anything but (free) pron.