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[sinclairuser]

where have all these annoying ads come from?.
its slowing the forum down, a bad move considering a lot of users dont have up to date equipment.

[geoscash1]

What ads? where are they showing at? I havent seen a single ad here on this forum ever, you may have a virus on yer pc...

[sinclairuser]

there is an ad right at the top of the page, and every post has stupid key words.
i have managed to disable it by opting out.
it wont hold anyway on this machine, every time its shut down it forgets crap like that and reboots fresh, a trick i learned from a hacker, the registry cannot be forcibly written to, i think its something trying to get in, i dont think its actually on the forum, but beware lads, i have not installed any software for months, and only visited here and thunting, for warned is for armed.

[WM6]

Nothing like ads happen here on my PC, using Ubuntu.

[geoscash1]

Well so far so good from my side, I see nothing, no ads and no keywords anywhere..

[Thomas]

No ads here, sounds like a adware, spyware, or malware problem.

[mickstv]

where have all these annoying ads come from?.
its slowing the forum down, a bad move considering a lot of users dont have up to date equipment.

So what Antivirus/Anti-Malware software are your running ?


If your not running a program called Malwarebytes, I suggest you go to the link below and download it, then install and do a full system scan.


https://www.malwarebytes.org/

[sinclairuser]

i dont need any anti virus, i posted for everyone else because you never know, like i said its only been here and thunting, and no software has been installed for months.
this machine runs on a read only shadow partition, every thing run is in ram, switch of and reboot and its fine, there is no drive that can be loaded to, the hard part is updating any programs on it as you have to build a new image.
but for an old machine with a lot of ram it works excellent, i dont worry about viruses and stuff on this machine, as i said i was just warning others.
it works a bit like a softmod on an xbox, the drive the computer sees is a fake drive, the installation is an unwriteable rom image, everything else runs in volatile memory, turn it off it reboots the clean image every time.

[mickstv]

the installation is an unwriteable rom image, everything else runs in volatile memory, turn it off it reboots the clean image every time.

So restart it and let us all know your ad's have gone.


I run Linux Mint, XP and Win7 (the last two via VMWare Player) and have never seen any ad's etc on either Website.

[Qiaozhi]

Everything looks fine to me on Windows, Ubuntu and Android.
The problem appears to be associated with your computer.

[greylourie]

Fine on my box. Perhaps we should get some people to investigate why this is happening to users. Ask people with pentesting experience what they think. There appears a member possibly with experience in similar things here.

[mickstv]

Fine on my box. Perhaps we should get some people to investigate why this is happening to users. Ask people with pentesting experience what they think. There appears a member possibly with experience in similar things here.

What !

It's one user with a problem with his system, not an epidemic.

[greylourie]

What !

It's one user with a problem with his system, not an epidemic.

Sry Mick, I remember reading post somewhere (http://www.geotech1.com/forums/showt...847#post192847), whilst might be unrelated (I'm not an expert) it certainly does not hurt to be vigilant. The chance that someone (even the people that messed with the Geotech website last year ) could have found a backdoor/vulnerability and come back at a later date to place some kind of tool for users is worrying. And the fact that only one person has mentioned this problem and has been "affected", may purely be because he has a very unique set-up. Unlike the majority of users here.

The fact is that there is plenty of stuff out there in the wild that will not even solicit a blink from the most vigilant detection software. As for Linux, with its increasing popularity and increasingly large following of particular flavours - the efforts of malicious code writers is reportedly turning from Win/Mac towards that avenue as a possible resource for them to infect and control.

regards

[mickstv]

Hopefully when sinclairuser comes back on-line, he can tell us what OS he is using and which Browser + version number he is using.

As for Linux, with its increasing popularity and increasingly large following of particular flavours - the efforts of malicious code writers is reportedly turning from Win/Mac towards that avenue as a possible resource for them to infect and control.

regards

Linux is becoming a target due to the fact that Android uses Linux Kernel.

[Qiaozhi]

Linux is becoming a target due to the fact that Android uses Linux Kernel.

Any virus would need to have superuser privileges to mess with Ubuntu Linux, whereas Android Linux is more vulnerable. Especially if you change the security setting to allow the installation of apps from unknown sources. Even then, there are some Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUP) in the Play Store, such as "mobogenie".