Hacking & Malware Warnings

[Morrus]

EN World was hacked yesterday, which is why your browser may have been giving you malware warnings when visiting the site.

Our intrepid tech admin [MENTION=52905]darjr[/MENTION] has now fixed the issue causing the warnings, and we have asked for EN World to be reviewed and cleared by Google and a couple of other warning organisations. Google cleared us as malware free this morning, and the others should follow suit soon.

Although we've checked our own computers and found they weren't infected, to be on the safe side it may we worth you doing a virus scan on your own computer - better to be safe than sorry!

Apologies for any inconvenience this caused. The site is now clean, so you are safe to browse (a small number of you may still get warnings - in that case, clear your cache and the problem should go away; or you may be using a browser which uses one of the malware warning services which takes a bit longer than Google to process a review, in which case the warning will go away as soon as they have completed that process).

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Given that this happens to many sites periodically, especially blogs and message boards, EVERYONE should be using the NoScript plug-in for Firefox (or the equivalent for other browsers) and NOT run unknown scripts by default.

In my experience, most of these hacker scripts have a Chinese URL (*.cn), so if a site that doesn't normally have a Chinese script running on them, DO NOT ENABLE IT. And don't enable unknown scripts willy-nilly as a rule, anyway.

That will prevent most hacked sites from infecting your computer.