Problems with Automaton Website (Virus?) RESOLVED

[AUTOMATON]

Originally Posted by pulsedragon20

I went on the site last week and today, and nothing bad happened to me (no warnings or alert from my firewall)

-I have Trend Micro and using Google Chrome

Yes, that's what is weird with the problem: not everyone is having the warning. My own computer if fully protected and when I'm visiting Automaton, I get no warning.

We will try to figure out tomorrow morning, once and for all, what the problem is and the source from wich it emanates.

Thanks for your patience and support,
Mario

[Richter]

Hey Mario,

If they tell you it's a scripting thing, don't accept it. Scripts don't throw trojen warnings. Ever!

[Pascal]

Originally Posted by Nocturn

I opened it up, slowed down to a point of almost frozen but picked back up. See no virus, but then again I'm on a Mac.

Same thing happened to me. And I'm using Macs too.

[Pascal]

Originally Posted by Exillion

Well, all I can say is that I'm totally pissed off right now:

Like this?

[AUTOMATON]

Originally Posted by Pascal

Like this?

Yes, this.

[AUTOMATON]

Originally Posted by Richter

Hey Mario,

If they tell you it's a scripting thing, don't accept it. Scripts don't throw trojen warnings. Ever!

Thanks for the cue, Richter.

[brr-icy]

glad to hear from you about this, i'm going to be posting quite a big preorder, and don't want to use another site

[blitz]

Well its been happening the past few weeks on and off for me when I visit the site. When I use Safari on a Mac is would load very slowly and I would have to close the tab and sometimes it would give me a warning that the site is infected. There are no problems noted when I check it with Goggles safe browsing: http://safebrowsing.clients.google.c...omatontoys.com

When I'm on my PC using Firefox 2.5 I notice that sometimes when I visit the site it would load Acrobat (like I'm viewin a pdf in my browser) and one time it downloaded some temp file and my A/V caught it: http://www.symantec.com/security_res...062316-3633-99

[Richter]

Ah yes, looks like there is something trying to use a bug in adobe software, overflowing the buffer allows instructions to be written to memory and executed without permission, these instructions being, "download and execute this trojan"

I beleive if you update your adobe reader and flash player to the latest versions you should be relatively safe, if that is actually whats happining. Of course it could be a combination of things.

[TFtoys]

Originally Posted by Bruticus82

This happened to me twice in the last few weeks.

I went to the site, I got an adobe error first, and then antivirus popped up and warned me of 2-4 trojans.

I e-mailed them and told him about it. He said they were aware of the problem and were reviewing their scripts. He seemed to think it was a script error that was being flagged as malicious by overly zealous antivirus software.

But last time I went to the site everything seemed fine. I thought it had been fixed. *shrugs*

Edit: Just tried the site again, no errors, no antivirus warnings...

oh shoot... I always got adobe error last few week,while opening its site/ I assumed I didnt update the adobe or someting