Virus, Malware, New Feedback Thread

Post #1 » by **CR Reina** » Wed Jan 20, 2010 6:27 pm

There have been a few users who have received the 'Antivirus PC 2009' virus onto their computers. Some have wondered if it possibly could have come from being on RealGM. It has apparently infected hundreds of thousands, if not millions of computers across the world and I can assure you that it is not coming from RealGM or any of the ads.

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Post #2 » by **Ruzious** » Wed Jan 20, 2010 6:40 pm

I did receive a pop-up from MSN about a week ago warning me that www.realgm.com is infected and it warned against me going to it. I ignore it and haven't had any problems that I've noticed. But I've never gotten a warning like that before or since.

dillio · Post #3 » by **dillio** » Wed Jan 20, 2010 6:54 pm

When I got the "Spyware Detected" popup, RealGM was the _only_ site I had open.

MajorDad · Post #4 » by **MajorDad** » Wed Jan 20, 2010 6:57 pm

My norton utilities has detected it and blocked it several times this week. One site was the WII instruction manual site.

europa · Post #5 » by **europa** » Wed Jan 20, 2010 7:05 pm

dillio wrote:When I got the "Spyware Detected" popup, RealGM was the _only_ site I had open.

Same here. That happened to me yesterday working on a Mac. Only site I had open at the time was RealGM.

R33D33 · Post #6 » by **R33D33** » Wed Jan 20, 2010 7:08 pm

I only get these viruses notifications from my avast when I browse Realgm and only realgm.

jax98 · Post #7 » by **jax98** » Wed Jan 20, 2010 7:14 pm

I've noticed that most problems seem to happen with people using Norton anti-virus. So just out of curiousity, have anyone had these problems using AVG or any other program?

AdamTheGreek · Post #8 » by **AdamTheGreek** » Wed Jan 20, 2010 7:16 pm

I'm getting it too and I use McAfee (Yes I know, most people think it sucks but AVG destroyed my other laptop).

I just restart my computer and everything's fine.

edfmx86 · Post #9 » by **edfmx86** » Wed Jan 20, 2010 7:18 pm

wow, i did get raped by this malware stuff yesterday, i downloaded a-squared free and took care of the problem...very stressful afternoon...

Jakespeare · Post #10 » by **Jakespeare** » Wed Jan 20, 2010 7:25 pm

Got the same thing from RGM. Luckily I caught it but damn.

OGSactownballer · Post #11 » by **OGSactownballer** » Wed Jan 20, 2010 7:31 pm

I got it here and it ruined my desktop and almost took out my laptop. I run Norton 360 AND a secondary anti-spyware at the same time and that normally keeps things managable.

MikeIsGood · Post #12 » by **MikeIsGood** » Wed Jan 20, 2010 7:36 pm

europa wrote:
dillio wrote:When I got the "Spyware Detected" popup, RealGM was the _only_ site I had open.

Same here. That happened to me yesterday working on a Mac. Only site I had open at the time was RealGM.

I'm on a Mac and can say that I've never seen the popup. I'm also using a browser that blocks popups, though, so that might be why.

Regardless, and this isn't directed at you europa, even if it did effect Macs (it doesn't, as far as I know), I can't imagine anyone would be fooled into clicking on it. It destroyed my friend's computer so I've had a look at it, and it quite clearly tried to play itself off as something that's native to Windows. I think most Mac users would understand that they wouldn't get a popup that looks like a window and has the logo.

europa · Post #13 » by **europa** » Wed Jan 20, 2010 7:39 pm

MikeIsGood wrote:
europa wrote:
dillio wrote:When I got the "Spyware Detected" popup, RealGM was the _only_ site I had open.

Same here. That happened to me yesterday working on a Mac. Only site I had open at the time was RealGM.

I'm on a Mac and can say that I've never seen the popup. I'm also using a browser that blocks popups, though, so that might be why.

Regardless, and this isn't directed at you europa, even if it did effect Macs (it doesn't, as far as I know), I can't imagine anyone would be fooled into clicking on it. It destroyed my friend's computer so I've had a look at it, and it quite clearly tried to play itself off as something that's native to Windows. I think most Mac users would understand that they wouldn't get a popup that looks like a window and has the logo.

I knew right away what it was. I shut down my computer and everything was fine. I had issues with spyware on my old PC a couple of years ago when I was on RealGM. Same type of thing that happened yesterday on the Mac.

bloodtoavampire · Post #14 » by **bloodtoavampire** » Wed Jan 20, 2010 7:56 pm

Dont post lies on here.

There is malware on this site. My IT person at work can verify that. I tested it by only going to this site online for a week straight and got the same malware 3 times.

So dont bull us.

MartyConlonOnTheRun · Post #15 » by **MartyConlonOnTheRun** » Wed Jan 20, 2010 8:00 pm

So I can't load pages even though connected to the internet. Any suggestions to clean it up or good, cheap antivirus software?

GswStorm3 · Post #16 » by **GswStorm3** » Wed Jan 20, 2010 8:05 pm

Buy the Malwarebytes pro version and you guys will be fine.

whysoserious · Post #17 » by **whysoserious** » Wed Jan 20, 2010 8:09 pm

I don't understand how you can post that it's not coming from RealGM when it's happened to my computer three or four times in the past month and the only site I was visiting at the time was Real GM. I didn't trust it and got rid of it but clearly it's coming from this site. Not necessarily from RealGM but you guys should be looking into this and getting it off the site.

Post #18 » by **Klomp** » Wed Jan 20, 2010 8:11 pm

Morten Jensen wrote:I've noticed that most problems seem to happen with people using Norton anti-virus. So just out of curiousity, have anyone had these problems using AVG or any other program?

I've never had this problem(AVG).....

jax98 · Post #19 » by **jax98** » Wed Jan 20, 2010 8:15 pm

Klomp wrote:
Morten Jensen wrote:I've noticed that most problems seem to happen with people using Norton anti-virus. So just out of curiousity, have anyone had these problems using AVG or any other program?

I've never had this problem(AVG).....

I run on AVG too, and so far my CPU has been clean as a whistle. However, I don't get the same ads, as I live in Denmark. So I don't know if that makes a difference :dontknow:

Post #20 » by **C.lupus** » Wed Jan 20, 2010 8:20 pm

I've had it pop up a couple times at home, though not recently. I've never had it at work and we use Norton. Work is firewalled to hell and back, though so that might make a big difference. Just out of curiousity are most of the folks getting this connecting at school, work, or home?