Malware Warning
 

As of this morning, I'm getting a malware warning when I come to this site. It says this site "contains content from fapro.ru, a site known to distribute malware" I clicked through anyway, but I'm a little nervous. Does anyone know what's going on?

Try clearing your cache

I have my browser set to clear my cache, etc every time I close the browser, so it was clean when I was getting the message. I'm just now coming back to the site and I closed my browser between then and now, and I'm no longer getting the message, so whatever it was it's resolved now. Thanks!

I'm not sure why that Chrome warning has come up for a few people within the last week. It seems to be very intermittent and it doesn't seem to show for everyone (I, for example, cannot seem to reproduce it no matter what I try). The only common thread is that each person who has encountered this message has told me of a different linked site (when they click the 'safe browsing' link for more information). All sites they've mentioned, however, end in the the characters ".ru" (which refers to Russia). I haven't been able to find anything on MS that points to .ru so I'm a little bewildered. :confused:

I had my webhost run a malware scan and here is their response:

Our malware scanner did not find anything in your public_html directory. I've also tried to search other blacklists with your domain and similar domains (mousescapers.com) for example. If you can find out a URL that is reporting an issue, we can look into it further, but so far there is no sign of anything wrong.

To see MouseScrappers 'health check', so to speak, on Google's site please see http://google.com/safebrowsing/diagn...escrappers.com

I'm still keeping an eye on things, but I want to assure you that MS is not hosting any malware (as you can see from the above Google link). If anyone encounters this message, it would be helpful if you try the various parts of the website (store, forums, blog, gallery) and clear your cache in between each part - then let me know if you see the error for each part or just one (I need help isolating where people see this error). Feel free to PM me the details or click the 'Send Message' link on our Facebook page.

Thanks!:wave:

I was using Chrome and I know it showed up when I first came to the home page. After that it seemed to come up whereever I went, but I wasn't clearing my cache between. It's still fine now and I NEVER thought the site was hosting malware, but I've had other forums where the ads had been hacked and malware was added to them and that was triggering a warning. I thought that might have been the case, but I'm glad to know that everything is fine. Chrome has certainly done other quirky things, so it wouldn't surprise me that it was just some bug.

As crazy as this may sound Ive been having the same message each other day, and as you said Carol each time pointing to a different site, most of them were .ru but the last one was different, just dont remember. So Im clearing the cache each time, I ve done this about 4 times so far. Oh and as I told you Carol, always the same for the forum, shop, blog and gallery.

I have no idea why this is happening, since your host already scanned it, do you need some extra info for him?. Is someone having the same problem as me?

BTW I use Chrome.

I've been having the same problem, the one today ended in .pro. I think I got a .pro once before, too.

I have been having the same problem!

In one of the messages at the bottom it had a message with something like:" If you are the Owner of this site please contact Google" something like that, I cannot remember exactly.

what I did was switch browers, Safari, Firefox had no problem with the site.

Right now I am using Chrome and it is working good but It does not hold my Log in the site, I have to be re-login even if I switch from the Forum to the store and so on.

I still haven't been able to reproduce this error so it's been hard trying to troubleshoot.

Can you please each tell me what version of Chrome you are using (and for what operating system)?

Thanks

Im having the same issue and im not using Chrome Carol, but IE

Thanks, Ana. This is the first IE report I've gotten. I'm not familiar with the IE error. Can you email me a screen shot or send me some additional details? What happens? I know with Chrome it shows a red warning page.

I was getting a pop up from Norton for a while when I visited the page on IE, but that hasn't happened in a while.

How are you all getting to MS site when you get the warning screen?

- are you clicking on a link from email?

- are you typing in the address field in the browser? If so, is your browser autofilling the address? if so, can you try typing it in manually (being sure to type 'http://www.mousescrappers.com') - do you still encounter the error?

- another way?

This is my information:


Google Chrome Version 21.0.1180.82
Macbook Pro
Mac OS X Version 10.7.4

I got the warning in all the scenarios you presented:

clicking on a shortcut in crome
clicking on an email link'
straight typing the address

I got it this morning after using a bookmark that I have used over and over. It went away after I cleared my cookies though. So far it hasn't come back. I got this warning on another scrap site the other day too... I wonder if someone is trying to target scrap sites?

I use Chrome.

I use Chrome updated to the last version.

Windows XP SP3

When opening from email:yes
Using a bookmark: yes

Last time I got it from connecticuts.info

Thanks girls. I spent the entire day yesterday trying to figure this out. I banned about 40 users who didn't seen to be real, and I made it so users with 0 posts cannot add a signature. I'm sure I will get some complaints about that but I'm hoping it will prevent some of these 'bots' from adding spam links to their signatures. I came across a lot of links (in signatures and bio fields) but none had any of the extensions you girls have been seeing. So I'm still baffled.:confused: I checked some tables in the database and didnt find anything unusual. I also checked some reporting sites similar to Google and they all give MS a clean record :pc:

Next time someone sees it, please try this:
- hit the back button
- in the address field VERY CAREFULLY type http://www.MouseScrappers.com (don't let it autofill/prepopulate for you)
- does it still lead you to the red screen?

Thanks

I was the same as Heather, getting a pop up from Norton, but havent had in a while

Yes :( I was on the board fine, and then opened the main forum page again, and got the red screen. So I tried this, but it still happened. I just cleared the cache and fine so far

did this occur this evening? I tried a few more things today so if you still got the message this evening then I guess what I did didn't help

I got the red screen today :(

Starting getting this again in Google Chrome, this time the message is for the Daily Scrapper.com....
This is after emptying the cache every day, restarting etc.

Moved on to Safari and Safari did not hold my login; had to login again and again. Now I have moved on to Firefox. I wonder if the Outside linking is what it is bringing it...Just a thought. but here it is the one i got just now:

http://i469.photobucket.com/albums/r.../MSMessage.jpg

so it's the TDS blinkie causing the issue. I know a lot of sites have removed 3rd party links of that sort because of troubles.

I'm also getting the one with thedailyscrapper.com as of today, no matter what I do. I also got it (for the same site) when I went to the Scrappity-Do-Dah forum, so it's not just here.

I've been getting that same malware message for 2 days now. Clearing cache/cookes does not get rid of it with Google Chrome. However, I can get in through Internet Explorer without any problems. :confused:

Thanks girls. I haven't had internet acccess since Monday. I just deactivated the link. I hope it works!

It worked, I can get in through Google Chrome now! :woohoo:

Me too, It is working great Now!:woohoo::hooray::hooray:

Is anyone still getting the red screen?

Not getting it anymore!:woohoo::hooray::hooray:

After writing this I'm going to go knock wood, but no, I haven't gotten it since! :D

Not me either, but Ive been cleaning the cache every other day LOL

I haven't gotten it since either.

Uh oh...I've seen it pop up several times today. It still contains the message about the dailyscrapper. I was using Chrome at the time.

Hey wow, I finally got the error too! I just got rid of the link in the footer on the blog, now I just need to get rid of it on the store - hopefully we'll be all clean after that. Thanks!

Well, when my husband built me this pc he bought a program called deepfreeze and everytime my puter is rebooted anything that has been downloaded, installed, etc. is wiped off and the computer is booted in the exact state in which it was "frozen." I have to boot thawed in order to have anything stick... kind of can be a pain but is a nice safety net to. There was a learning curve for me at first but I haven't had any major problems and have adjusted the way I work. I was having too much stress over malware :ack: :cry:and this has made my life much less stressful now that I have adjusted... been about 5 months now ;)