[False alarm] MALWARE POP UPS in wesnoth.org

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[False alarm] MALWARE POP UPS in wesnoth.org

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[2015-02-23] Locking this topic as it turned out to not be a problem with wesnoth.org at all. Read on for details. ― shadowm

Anyone else have seen a popup that try to install malware when you click a link at forums or any other wesnoth.org page?

It looks like if wesnoth.org has suffered a hacking attack or something like that.

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Note: you can see some new links with capitol letters and a green arrow that popups to install supposed utility or security software.

Im afraid that this post has some of that links that i have not writen myself in it.
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Re: MALWARE POP UPS in wesnoth.org

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Pepe,

No, I don’t. It sounds like you have adware installed on your own computer.

Check your browser add-ons and check with your computer support for help with removing adware from your computer.
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Re: MALWARE POP UPS in wesnoth.org

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Thank for answer.

I cannot undertand how can i see that popups at my windows 7 computer and at an Ubuntu virtual machine too.

I will try to check my machine for some kind of virus anyway.

Malware name is something like eFix Pro

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If you don’t see this on every other site, perhaps there’s malware on your computer redirecting requests for the Google Analytics script — that’s the only Javascript request shared by both the forums and the front page. If both Windows 7 and your Ubuntu VM are on the same host, the malware running on the host may be rewriting HTTP traffic to/from GA or wesnoth.org at the driver level, or redirecting name lookups for google-analytics.com by tampering with your DNS or etc\hosts configuration (yes, %systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts is a thing on Windows).
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Re: MALWARE POP UPS in wesnoth.org

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Pepe wrote:Malware name is something like eFix Pro
Yes, by a quick search it appears to be one of these annoying adware, and as such your antivirus may not recognize it as malware. Some of the removal procedures that I found (like this one, for example) suggest to try using MalwareBytes Anti-Malware and AdwCleaner, but I never used these programs so far, so I can't vouch for them.
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Yes, i had a malware in my w7 host computer. Im cleaning it now. i have removed something with the name WP from my program list with an installation date of today. I dont know what it is but i have antivirus working in my hard disk now.

Thanks for help.

Wesnoth was the first web i saw today and i thought it was under some kind of hacking attack but i saw that other web pages were poping too with that malware in my computer.

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Yes, by a quick search it appears to be one of these annoying adware, and as such your antivirus may not recognize it as malware. Some of the removal procedures that I found (like this one, for example) suggest to try using MalwareBytes Anti-Malware and AdwCleaner, but I never used these programs so far, so I can't vouch for them.
I used adwCleaner once, and found it to be very easy to use and effective.
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