This site gave me a virus?

[cw79]

Not the kind of responses I expected, but I am glad I got some feedback. There was a few helpful posts.

As you may be able to tell by my initial question I know just about nothing about computers, so sorry if my post didn't make much sense. Let me tell you exactly what happened from my point of view.

1. I Went to Tip.it (BTW I bot on Runescape and sell the gold and i needed some more info about something, I guess you could call that playing)
2. I saw on the bottom left hand corner a site called dual-boxing.com loading, which I assumed was just a site that was advertising there.
3. Before leaving tip.it my antivirus program popped up and detected a virus, and 'cleaned' it off my CPU.
4. Every 30 minutes or so since getting the virus I get a message that says "Web Attack: Suspicious Executable Image Download Detected" from IP address '74.50.25.251'
5. I googled that IP and on more then 1 site (whois, etc), It linked me to vps.lunarpages, which was connected to this site and 'redanchorit.com'
6. I assumed it was your guys's fault because this is the site I saw loading when I loaded tip.it, and the IP was linked to this site.

I guarantee I'm not trolling, more of me lacking knowledge of computers. So are you guys saying if you went to a site and left with a virus, and then you noticed your antivirus software is blocking intrusion attempts from an IP and you google the IP and find a website that is 'moving locations' you wouldn't be suspicious?

Anyways congratulations on all of the +1 you guys earned, you should be proud.

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/38/booog.png/
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/217/boooo2u.png/

I got the virus on 6/17/2011 at 5:43 pm

Once again, never been to this site, or redanchorit.com, or lunarpages. I just went to tip.it, saw "dual-boxing.com" in the bottom left and got the warnings shown in the message above, and at the time that IP was linked to dual-boxing.com.

[Apps]

Trolling or not... matter of opinion now.

(Benefit of the doubt) The way I see it, there are two things you can do.


1. Connect your dots as you see it, www.dual-boxing.com is bad. Dont come here again, or "we'll get all your runescape gold"

2. Use your skills with the internet, and trace the virus, trace this webhost, and compare.

Regardless, above all, either of those two wont help you... get the virus off your computer.

Good luck.


Pro tip right here from Ashley

Back when I used to play that god forbidden game, tip.it was known for malware.

Just sayin..

[cw79]

Trolling or not... matter of opinion now.

(Benefit of the doubt) The way I see it, there are two things you can do.


1. Connect your dots as you see it, www.dual-boxing.com is bad. Dont come here again, or "we'll get all your runescape gold"

2. Use your skills with the internet, and trace the virus, trace this webhost, and compare.

Regardless, above all, either of those two wont help you... get the virus off your computer.

Good luck.


Pro tip right here from Ashley

I never said this site was bad or that it was going to try to take pixels from me, all I did was question this website because how I saw it this was the site that gave me the virus. After reading posts and stuff, I doubt that this site is at fault. But I would still like some sort of explanation on how this got on my CPU

And yes, I'm working on getting this off my CPU, its a pain but it appears like I'm cutting down on it and making progress.

And I've been to tip.it many times, and so have many other members of the runescape community. As far as I could tell tip.it is not known for viruses either, if they did I think there would be a lot more posts about the subject. So if tip.it did give me the virus why are all my accounts still okay? And why does the ip link to vps.lunarpages?

[Unded]

Cw79-you should contact your antivirus vendor and ask them what files to send them to determine how and why you got infected.
I can pretty well guarantee it wasn't from this site as I've been here numerous years as have many other members and none of us has gotten any malware from here-if we had we would have let others on here know for sure.
You should also try Trend Micro's house call-free "online scan" in addition to your normal anti-virus anti-malware program as NO anti-virus program is 100% in finding all problems.
The only 100% thing is to never connect to the World Wide Web. Edit:BIG ps-use Firefox for web browsing etc. and use addons for it like noscript to prevent things happening from sites you don't know.If you need more info for how to protect your computer just post on here for more info-we are a helpful community

[cw79]

Cw79-you should contact your antivirus vendor and ask them what files to send them to determine how and why you got infected.
I can pretty well guarantee it wasn't from this site as I've been here numerous years as have many other members and none of us has gotten any malware from here-if we had we would have let others on here know for sure.
You should also try Trend Micro's house call-free "online scan" in addition to your normal anti-virus anti-malware program as NO anti-virus program is 100% in finding all problems.
The only 100% thing is to never connect to the World Wide Web. Edit:BIG ps-use Firefox for web browsing etc. and use addons for it like noscript to prevent things happening from sites you don't know.If you need more info for how to protect your computer just post on here for more info-we are a helpful community

Thanks for the info. Yes I'll try to contact my antivirus vendor as soon as possible, hopefully I can find some more info about what happened.

And yes I am pretty security conscious usually. I do use Firefox and I normally use adblock plus, but unfortunately it was disabled at the time. And I'll look into the other things you mentioned as well. =)

[Unded]

Adblock is a start-but you MUST use noscript!

[Ashley]

1. I Went to Tip.it (BTW I bot on Runescape and sell the gold and i needed some more info about something, I guess you could call that playing)

You're just asking for AIDS doing that. Everyone whos anyone in RuneScape knows the game is plagued with script kiddies sending each others keyloggers and "hacking" each other or DDoSing each other.