JAVA popup : VIRUS

[Chief J. Schappell]

Um is this suppose to happen?....

It's been on for the whole day, restarted my laptop and still, wth?

It's an attack on Argo. Ignore the popup and do NOT run it.

Edit: Oh! The image loaded for me after I posted. Clear your browser cache and then come back to the page and hit Ctrl+F5 to do a hard refresh.

Double Edit: Seems IE is running the JavaScript automatically, even in IE9. Scan your computer and avoid using the website in that browser for the time being.

[XSniper]

My PC got f***ed earlier with s**tloads of viruses. But I managed to remove them all! 

Warning

**To windows users if Windows Defender suddenly pops up while on the forums saying 1 threat to computer and it asks for a scan DO NOT scan it! It's a fake program that uses the same java from "Windows Defender" and when you scan it downloads the virus into your pc.

Java is not the virus! (in this situation) because, Windows Defender tricks you mkaing it look like it is the virus when the fake Windows Defender itself is the virus.***

To MAC osx or other users Java could be your virus, if you accidentially did click yes close "s.exe" And any other "java.exe" BUT!! with a suspicious number EX: java23.exe <- VIRUS!

This was confirmed by Windows because I had contacted them earlier when I had sh**tloads of viruses on my pc.

[Chief J. Schappell]

My PC got f***ed earlier with s**tloads of viruses. But I managed to remove them all! 

Warning

**To windows users if Windows Defender suddenly pops up while on the forums saying 1 threat to computer and it asks for a scan DO NOT scan it! It's a fake program that uses the same java from "Windows Defender" and when you scan it downloads the virus into your pc.

Java is not the virus! (in this situation) because, Windows Defender tricks you mkaing it look like it is the virus when the fake Windows Defender itself is the virus.***

To MAC osx or other users Java could be your virus, if you accidentially did click yes close "s.exe" And any other "java.exe" BUT!! with a suspicious number EX: java23.exe <- VIRUS!

This was confirmed by Windows because I had contacted them earlier when I had sh**tloads of viruses on my pc.

Windows Defender is not a virus. Read my second edit in the post above your's. You infected your own computer by mistake and it attacked your Windows Defender. What really happened is IE9's default JavaScript settings fail, so they automatically ran the JavaScript attack which loaded Java, which ran the malicious executable on the other site containing the virus on your computer. This then detected you had Windows Defender installed, and "hacked" it so that it would be useless and possibly output invalid information, as well as possibly installing fake anti-malware on your computer. Immediately redownload Windows Defender from the MS website and boot into safe mode, remove your viruses, install Windows Defender, scan with that, and then update your computer and don't use IE on ARPD forums until the attack has been blocked.

[Leonardo]

Forums are loading a bit slower after that. Normally i'd load 3 pages at the same time and they would naturally load then all after 10 seconds, now, after 30 seconds, they are still loading and i gotta refresh then to load... bah

[XSniper]

It almost struck me on Chrome

[Allison]

No issues, and I use FireFox 5.0. Hm...Must only target certain browsers.

[Chief J. Schappell]

Forums are loading a bit slower after that. Normally i'd load 3 pages at the same time and they would naturally load then all after 10 seconds, now, after 30 seconds, they are still loading and i gotta refresh then to load... bah

Ya, a DDoS attack is happening at the same time.

It almost struck me on Chrome

Ya, thankfully Chrome will stop it with default settings.

No issues, and I use FireFox 5.0. Hm...Must only target certain browsers.

No, all browsers are affected. It's just down to your JavaScript settings on whether it runs or not. IE9, unfortunately, has default settings to auto-run them so it's easier on users, but less secure, which is why users are getting infected with it.

[Goodandy]

Um is this suppose to happen?....

I have the same problem, any way to change it... If not just wait? 

[Allison]

I'd say you have to wait until whatever is happening is done with.

[Chief J. Schappell]

Edit: Oh! The image loaded for me after I posted. Clear your browser cache and then come back to the page and hit Ctrl+F5 to do a hard refresh.

Double Edit: Seems IE is running the JavaScript automatically, even in IE9. Scan your computer and avoid using the website in that browser for the time being.

[Cane]

Windows Defender did not pick anything up. Is this a good thing, or a bad thing?

[Chief J. Schappell]

Windows Defender did not pick anything up. Is this a good thing, or a bad thing?

Good.

[Exterminator]

What should i do if i opened the popup several times..

Also the main argo webiste doesnt open for me many times, refreshing restarting e.t.c doesnt help but it automatically fixes in a few hours

[Exterminator]

Forums are loading a bit slower after that. Normally i'd load 3 pages at the same time and they would naturally load then all after 10 seconds, now, after 30 seconds, they are still loading and i gotta refresh then to load... bah

Ya, a DDoS attack is happening at the same time.

It almost struck me on Chrome

Ya, thankfully Chrome will stop it with default settings.

No issues, and I use FireFox 5.0. Hm...Must only target certain browsers.

No, all browsers are affected. It's just down to your JavaScript settings on whether it runs or not. IE9, unfortunately, has default settings to auto-run them so it's easier on users, but less secure, which is why users are getting infected with it.

I chose always run on this site, what to do D:

[Chief J. Schappell]

1. Stop double posting and follow the rules.
2. Read the whole topic. :P

Scan your whole computer with Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware, and modify your browser's settings and remove the exception for this site.

[Steven J]

Oddly enough I never got a popup or anything. 

Same

[Ben]

Okay. Local disk, prngram files, users, <you>, appdata, local, temp...s.exe! Thats where i found it i think.
Get malwarebytes, its free and effective. Do a full scan, and quarantine/remove anything you get.

[Chief J. Schappell]

Okay. Local disk, prngram files, users, <you>, appdata, local, temp...s.exe! Thats where i found it i think.
Get malwarebytes, its free and effective. Do a full scan, and quarantine/remove anything you get.

Yes, "s.exe" is the malicious file responsible.

[Janar]

CHROME PIC


It almost struck me on Chrome

Yup, got the same thing...

But I chose "Always run on this site", how can I remove it now?

[[Rstar]Paul]

Try uninstalling Java and re-installing it.