BP classified on Fauna giving me a virus????

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Originally Posted by jjj_85

I have had my antivirus tell me there was an attempted attack while browsing the adds on there twice now. I am guessing its one of the adds. The information given is this:

Category: Intrusion Prevention

An intrusion attempt by 178.17.163.189 was blocked.

Web Attack: Malicious Toolkit Website 9

Network traffic 178.17.163.189 matches the signature of a known attack. attack.

Attacking Computer: 178.17.163.189, 80

Attacker URL: zouris.com/news

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I thought it was a specific ad at first as well because it did happen twice while I was on a certain member's ad. However, the other two times I was on different member's ads. I think the mentioned advertisements are more likely the culprit.

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Originally Posted by Ladybugzcrunch

I was hoping that my post here would elicit a response from fauna making it more safe to browse.

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Unfortunately, Fauna doesn't follow BP.net. ;) On rare occasions, the mods might pop in, but I don't think Rich is even registered here.

Use this form to contact Rich directly:
http://www.faunaclassifieds.com/forums/sendmessage.php

There shouldn't be anything buggy or scary about that particular link. Fill it out, make sure you include your username for Fauna and give him as much details as you can about what you've experienced. (You might also copy the text from the post in this thread where a second user describes a similar issue, and include a link to this thread so he can read more if he chooses to.)

That's how I would want to be notified if something like that were happening here. Good luck with it.

Forgot to mention. I have no problems with my computer before, during, or sense my Norton antivirus popped that up. It can be a little picky sometimes also, maybe it was nothing. Hopefully its no big deal. Hasn't stopped me from searching for my next snake everyday and it doesn't seem to ever have a problem now.

My laptop is out to be wiped and reloaded right now from a virus(the one that says "Your firewall is down, click here to fix this!" and tries to behave like it's running scans on your computer.

I was reading the BOI when it hit. I'll use the form to send Rich a note. I never had any virus trouble before on Fauna so I didn't really think I got it from there.