The sites been hacked again.

Run your AV scans everyone.

Wibble Wibble Wibble

If I knew what an AV scan was...

It means yoo should get your Aunty Virus to check your pooter

Why, leccymac, has someone supposedly posted in your name again

If it been hacked I am guessing Leccymac is probably involved

Someone posted the other day saying they had lost their avatar and it had been replace with something that said
"is hacked" I dont know if there is a connection but I keep running my anti virus to be on the safe side.

It's malware, Mindar.

Luckily my AV stops it from loading before it can do any harm.
Others may not be so well protected, that is why I put the warning on.

I've got Mcafee do I need to do anything lec ?

If it's off this site then the best thing you can do is stop posting on here.

Run your scans, Nana.

If you're not getting notifications that it has been blocked it may have already got in.

It's not a bad un but it's there all the same.

Why, Baz, my AV is protecting me.

Is yours.

I've done Malaware & all is ok thanks LL you're so helpful

Good.

I don't get it every time I post, but it's definitely still hanging about.

I'll be able to post more & more without a care or a hoot

You mean like you have always done, eh.



Anybody else had this,cos I've not??????????

there only seems to be leccymac.

Click on the little i [view site information] to the left in the address bar, it gives some information about the site. Thank you Llegs, my AV is also protecting my computer.

Mines ok
You may find this hard to believe but I've not got any anti virus scanner on my computer!

My tower is older than Gods dog and its never let me down yet If it does, I'll launch it
Scaremongering Reminds me when rumours were flying about that sugar was going to be rationed in the 70's. Everybody panicked and they didn't need to!

I've bought a new Android phone & quite new to this I get messages all day scaring me to download all sorts of stuff to secure my phone.I had the phone one day & a message that my phone was full to bursting so do this & that so I delete all of them

Not scaremongering at all, the problem is real enough.

No anti virus eh, more fool you Granada, you'll never know what nasties are running in the background, stealing information off you.

"Mines ok" you type, that's what the program is designed to make you believe.

granada take lecs advice he knows his stuff

NanJ a family member had a "Virus Alert" on a samsung tablet that was encouraging her to click on. Every time she came to use the tablet it would appear. I found this site, easy to follow.

Link

Thanks mindar we had a family party yesterday & one of my grandsons a whizz kid told me to ignore all these so I'll abide by his rules & get used to this phone without problems

Posted by: lectriclegs (3168) Report abuse


" Not scaremongering at all, the problem is real enough.

No anti virus eh, more fool you Granada, you'll never know what nasties are running in the background, stealing information off you."

Its not stole anything yet
Well, nothing Ive noticed

ps If a website has been hacked, how would it affect your own personal computer?
Like I said I have no anti virus. Never needed it. However, I do get a message warning me if a website is untrustworthy and that's free.

Ive not had that message on Wiganworld. So, Its safe enough for me

No skin off my nose Granada.

Keep your head in the sand and good luck.

My head is never in the sand, Lectriclegs. Never has been, never will be
My glass is always half full, Never half empty

Any proof that this site has been hacked?

Dont know if this has anything to do with matters

Aitch Lost his avatar the other day

Probably nothing to do with it.
I lost my teeth once but I didn't blame the Dentist.

http://navylark.0catch.com/navy/troutbridge.html

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Open that, Granada.

That's what's infecting the site.

But who removed his avatar and replaced it with that picture? Not aitch by the sounds of it.

Hey up, Hey up.

1..Lectriclegs. Nothing affecting me. Or my computer.
2..Mindar. If a serious hacker. is serious. They are going to nick more than an Avatar!

3.. Any proof that this site has been hacked?

" Nothing affecting me. Or my computer."

How do you know?


Have you opened that web address yet Granada?

I'm not a computer whizz kid but ..

Link

So I'll be running my anti virus regularly

No need to do.
My computer is working fine. If it's not broken, don't maul with it! That's my motto.

Any proof that this site has been hacked?
No complaints from members on the message boards up to now!

Correct, Mindar.

And I think I know which image it is on here.

But hey ho Granadas computer is running fine so I must be wrong.

Correct
Any proof that this site has been hacked?

How come there is only you making an issue of it?

Have you opened the address yet, Granada?

Have you any idea how viruses work?

If your computer is as old as you say and it has no AV it will be absolutely riddled with malware/PUP's.

Like I said keep your head in the sand and good luck.

Look
My final word on the subject.

I do regular scans but today Lec prompted me to run another...I had 49 Pups (not a clue what that means)but one click polished them off..thanks lec

Potentialy Unwanted Programms Nanj

My computer is fine. Thanks for your concern,though

Any proof that this site has been hacked?


This is also my final word on the subject. Unless you can produce any conclusive evidence

Think how many Granada has, Nana.

But his computer is running fine, so all is well.

I always take advice from someone who knows what they're talking about

Thanks Nanajacqui.


I appreciate that

grandad there are plenty of excellent free antivirus programmes available on the net just type and download one.

Cheers Bakerboy.
Lectriclegs, Ive been pondering over your advice and I think you could be right
Ive had a look at the second link that you put on and its got me thinking.

However, the web address that you put on prior to that does not work when I copy and paste it. Maybe my computer is infected If you could rectify that link I would appreciate your time and effort in doing so

Thanks in advance.

Typical leccymac running away when someone's getting the better of him

Granada.

I don't want to link to that address as someone may click it by accident.

Have a look here get some protection.

Good backtrack

I've not time to be on here all day like you, Walshy.

Lec I'm curious to know who "got the better of you" and I didn't notice you'd ran away as "some person" says

I, "some people" say "my final word on the subject" when there getting nowhere.

Many thanks, Lectriclegs.

I'll give it a spin later and let you know the outcome.
Cheers

I got an alert when I clicked on 'A New Word a Day' thread
navylarkocatch.com - malicious.

So, I take it some malware is lurking on WW site, (or on the sever hosting the site) which is redirecting the browsers of users to these sites (that contain viruses) which are being identified and blocked.

Anyone know if the Bot concerned has been identified yet?

Yes

Only seems to happen if you have JavaScript enabled when you click to select the word a day topic, and not if you disable JS! (Though then the emoticons links won't work)

I assume that someone has inserted a Java Script re-direct virus hidden in the destination the link (topic title) takes you to.

It needs sorting, before it redirects someone to a malicious site which the AV database has not yet logged!

Done and dusted, Lectriclegs.
Up to now, everything is fine.
Many thanks. Cheers

Posted by: kenee (1971)1,000+ Report abuse

I got an alert when I clicked on 'A New Word a Day' thread
navylarkocatch.com - malicious.

Replied: 25th Jul 2018 at 16:49

So not the only one then kenee

Then don't click on on old thread which some sado has reopened.

Absolutely brilliant advice as usual, Walshy.

Now, can you tell us which threads we can click on that don't contain a virus?

Well I clicked on the said thread and thankfully I didn't get any message

walshy do you have to annoy everyone on every topic posted

Haha, another one who considers themself holier than thou.

Hurry up Brainless, before you miss the bandwagon.

Any updates on the "hacking" Any one been " hacked"
No complaints up to now on WiganWorld

I've not been, no complaints from me, makes you wonder if it existed

posted by: mindar (611)500+ Report abuse

I can hardly read your avatar aitch, I can see the words "is hacked"what's the first word?

Replied: 18th Jul 2018 at 09:19
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LINK


Posted by: aitch (5487) View aitch's page5,000+ View blog Report abuse

That sounds about right mindar it seems like I have been hacked I suppose it happens to everybody at some point in their lives


Replied: 18th Jul 2018 at 19:28

I dont believe aitch has posted since. I hope he can sort it soon

Is it Wiganworlds fault, Mindar?

"I lost my teeth once but I didn't blame the Dentist".

Someone also bought £1500 worth of technology stuff with my Tesco credit card. It wasn't Tesco's fault

ONE member has lost an avatar on Wiganworld. Is it Wiganworlds fault

A..., Yes
B..., No.

Whenever I enter the 'New Word a Day' thread, my AV notifies me that it has blocked access to the navylark site which is infected with a virus.

I have not myself attempted to access the NL site, so I presume there is a 'Redirect Virus' lurking on WW.

I wonder if only some members are being subject to a redirect attempt?

Maybe some are also being protected by their AV, but not notified that it has scored a hit.

Of course if someone does get an unprotected redirect, they presumably will not know, but will later experience some computer problem based upon the malware load their PC receives.

Priscus.

The said thread was reopened on July 21st after almost three years "dormant"

Then on the same day a couple of hours later another thread is started with the "hacking" hookem!

I get a warning now. But it's only on that thread! No others are affected!

How do you know that no other threads are affected have you tried them all? There's thousands of them.

Blame the sado that reopened an old thread

Posted by: mindar (613) Report abuse


"How do you know that no other threads are affected have you tried them all? There's thousands of them."

I've no need to try them all Why would I want to


ONE member has lost an avatar on Wiganworld. Is it Wiganworlds fault

A..., Yes
B..., No.

It does not appear if I use Ms 'Edge' browser, so I am guessing it is a browser hijack!

That clears that up then, Priscus. Wiganworld has not been "hacked"!
Could a browser hijack replace your existing home page, or search engine with its own?
I Don't think its anything to worry about. According to form,
they are easily removed according to Dogpile

yes

Thanks, Priscus.
That happened to me when I downloaded an anti virus last week.

It replaced my toolbars with its own
However, They got kicked out and my old ones were put back quick style

As the script causing the re-direct is triggered by clicking onto the 'Word a Day' thread, it WOULD suggest that there is malware on the WW site.

I have Avast, Malwarebytes and Windows Defender scan and find nothing to report on my machine, however, it could be a binary: ie innocuous code planted on users machines which fails to trigger any response from AV, and only becomes malicious when a script runs, which is hidden within the link that runs the 'Word a day' thread.

Found nowt on mine.

Still no warning.