Warning: Something's Not Right Here!

[Nobody]

Warning: Something's Not Right Here!
forums.civfanatics.com contains content from ad.bannerconnect.net, a site known to distribute malware. Your computer might catch a virus if you visit this site.
Google has found that malicious software may be installed onto your computer if you proceed. If you've visited this site in the past or you trust this site, it's possible that it has just recently been compromised by a hacker. You should not proceed. Why not try again tomorrow or go somewhere else?

My computer pops up with a big red screen saying that when i go on the civfanatics forums today.

Is it something to be worried about?

 

[Camikaze]

I just got that too, using Safari (Firefox (which I'm now using) doesn't come up with anything)!

 

[The_J]

From where does the warning come from? AV software, or are you using Google chrome?

Just checking via google, there are at least 2 other forums (click, click), where the same message pops up.

In contrast, McAfee says it's okay, http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/bannerconnect.net/summary/ .

 

[NinjaCow64]

Yep, got this as well. On Safari AND Chrome. Luckily, it's doesn't seem to be doing it on Camino, so I'll use that. Seriously, the site is almost unusable when it pops up. It's ruddy infuriating.

 

[Mise]

I think Thunderfall need to contact AtomicGamer/UGO about the ads again

 

[Skwink]

Safari here, no problems experienced yet.

 

[The_J]

Just further checking: Chrome + Safari use the safe browsing API from google, which currently says here that one page has been infected via this website in the last 90 days.

Considering that this was only one occassion, and that injection of malicious ads can happen without the distributor knowing about it, i'd say this is a false alarm.

 

[classical_hero]

Firefox+adblock, FTW.

 

[NickyJ]

Firefox+adblock, FTW.

You forgot NoScript.

 

[LucyDuke]

NoScript sucks.

 

[ainwood]

I've e-mailed our hosts.

 

[The_J]

Over another forum (click), i found that it's obviously a wrong alert, see http://www.bannerconnect.net/:

Between 10:30 am and 16:30 pm (CET) today (Friday 16 September), Google flagged our ad serving web domain as a possible malware threat.

According to our account manager this was caused by a malware incident on another seat of the Google ad exchange and did not originate from the BannerConnect seat. During this incident a call was made to our domain,ad.bannerconnect.net, which was immediately blacklisted by Google in an attempt to stop the spread of malware.

Google takes malware very seriously and therefore reacted rapidly to investigate the origin of the malware issue and has confirmed BannerConnect had nothing to do with the issue.

Google has immediately lifted all blockades concerning the BannerConnect ad serving domain and there will be an official statement on this issue after the weekend.

We truly apologize for the inconveniences caused and we appreciate your ongoing support.

Thank you all and enjoy your weekend!

Edit: oops, seems ths lead to unwarranted work, sorry .

 

[classical_hero]

NoScript sucks.

Yes it does. I absolutely hated it when I tried it, since it was too much work.