Some code on wastedbrains was exploited and used to spread malware, and trojan viruses. If you used IE to visit my site between 9 - 08 - 2006 and now you might have caught a virus. It is an IE bug so if you were on other browsers you are fine. They found a way to insert malicious code through iframes and redirect to any other sites javascript and other frames they wished. The site will be down for a few days while I fix the exploit and remove the code from all of the video and image pages.
Based on logs it looks like the max number of people exposed to this was 2,700 people between 9/08/2006 and 9/19/2006. (probably a far smaller number were hit)
So one more time if you use IE and visited the image or video sections during that time please run some virus scans. I highly recommend the free virus scan from AOL, as it is free and has the highest security ranking currently.
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Comments (2)
Glad you showed me mozilla way back in 2002.
Posted by -dominic | September 23, 2006 2:47 PM
Posted on September 23, 2006 14:47
Yeah, it is an easy way to protect yourself. I mean people write all the exploits for the most popular and more out of date browser. I fixed the issue and the site is back up live.
Posted by Dan | September 23, 2006 3:31 PM
Posted on September 23, 2006 15:31