malware attack again
2 iMacs, one Macbook, one iphone 0 viruses. At least 2 attacks by viruses each year on the office PCs that get through the anti viruses, as well as the usual Microsoft glitches.
I got an attack popup from Norton whenever I logged into this site. Ruh roh.
I'm not sure if this is related but I will share a recent experience. I use an Apple computer so I don't have antivirus warnings, etc. That said, Apples aren't virus-proof. I have been using this site regularly despite the warnings as I haven't noticed a problem.
However, this morning, Gmail alerted me that my account had been accessed suspiciously and I should change my password immediately. The IP address from the account hacker was located in Ohio.
I don't know if these are all interrelated but seeing as the Gmail hack was the first breach in security I have ever had in addition to the mgoblog cyber-security issues, I would suggest you all keep your wits about you.
/conspiracy theory
There was a security lapse at a company in india a little while ago, and they accidently published account information for about 300,000 gmail and hotmail accounts. This site can help you find out if your account has been compromised.
Why does India handle so many technology issues? They seem to be pretty bad at it and I can't understand a fucking word they say. My favorite game is the guy trying to explain something and having to spell it out for me because we can't understand one another. The old P, as in Peter, conversation that makes me want to P, as in punch him through the phone.
Part of my job is occasionally doing IT support on the phone (fortunately for a company that doesn't outsource overseas....yet), and I hate to break it to you, but a lot of you are damn near impossible to understand yourselves, either due to a poor phone connection, poor grasp of the english language or poor phone etiquette. So, needless to say, I, as a well educated and well spoken American must occassionally resort to the whole "P as Pissed off at your constant mumbling stuff to me" game.
Ill try and help you out, im not very familiar with the ipad though. Give me a screenshot
Take a picture of your computer screen so I can see it like that, not each line individually
Same header popped up when I loaded the page on my Blackberry
The subject, not the globulity-gook.
On my Safari IPhone.
Seems like a great way to build a bulk email list.....
I trust it since it was recomended by john strand, paul asadoorian, and larry pence. Three GAWN, GIAC, GCFW gold certified IT experts who taught me everything I know about computers. Plus, im not dumb enough to use a website like that without being positive that it isn't storing information.
My free avast blocked it this time, too. It even let me read the page while blocking it this time, so it might not be as bad as the last one. Is this a Columbus thing? EL? Somebody with either nothing to do or a lot of hatred seems to be going to a lot of trouble to attack this site.
OSU folks aren't nearly as successfull and loaded as we are !
articles relative to computer anything.
So far I haven't heard of a single person being hit with this that's been using Chrome. If you're running IE still in 2011, you're crazy. Switch to Chrome not only because it will keep you safe here, but because it'll provide a MUCH better browsing experience everywhere....cleaner, simpler design, MUCH faster page load times, etc.
Once you install Chrome, install the AdBlock add-on, and you'll be fine.
This is what I'm currently doing with no ill effects.
My virus programs (Norton, Kapersky, McAfee) on 3 different computers haven't fired once visiting MGoBlog using Chrome.
Well, many work computers (including mine) put a restriction on web browsers so that you can only run IE, and what is work without mgoblog? It's unfortunate.
I use Chrome as my primary browser, but I also use the Stay Focused app at work to try to, for instance, not spend my whole day bullshitting on MGoBlog. But because I lack anything resembling a spine, I just switch to Firefox whenever my allotted half hour is up. And now my work computer has a virus. fml
And that is to play angry birds.
Tell that to the University of Michigan...
Stuck on a work computer that can't use anything but IE, learn how to use host files to block ads.
You may not want to make this your homepage. I always google "Mgoblog" to get here, and when it's been infected with malware, my browser was able to alert me before I clicked on the site.
google caches that info for a while. Even if there's been no sign of a site hosting malware for up to 90 days, it will still advise you to stay away. On the opposite end, Google may not notice a site has been infected for up to weeks at a time. There's just too many sites for google's millions of spiders to crawl all the time. Its not very accurate and hardly ever up to date for many sites.
It doesn't do that for me. It alerted me on the day the malware struck, and then had no warning when it went away. I'm not sure exactly what my settings are, but they're working out nicely.
I thought I was the only one. This virus hit me last week also. So far my security system blocked it as long as I let it scan it.
I wonder if the virus is coming from a dns server attaching itself to the page request. I'm down in Texas and haven't got it once. Just a theory.
Mgoblog infected my computer twice in the last two weeks. I'm using iPhone for the forseeable future becuase its really getting annoying.
I just got a pop up from my MBAM as soon as I opened MGo telling me it had successfully blocked a threat.