Anybody else getting "virus attacking" notices when vitising BWW?

No, I'm not joking.

My PCs are telling me a recent attack was made on my computer. This happens only right after I navigate to BWW.

On my Mac, I get a warning, telling me that a program from the site is "asking for unlimited access to my computer."

WTF?

Access denied, baby.

Anybody else having this issue? It started just yesterday for me.

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I got that one once, as well, Millie.

Just got the virus attack notice again when I went to the OT Board. Fortunately the Norton Antivirus is blocking it. But what's going on?

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I haven't gotten anything like that recently, but there was a time when every time I'd click over here I'd be told there was malware.

I think this means that RobbO is back!

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I got it too.

And just got it again when I clicked "Reply to this message."

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Yes! I got it three times already, but only when I clicked "Reply to this message".

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just googled www.sparesweb.com anbd this is what I got:

www.sparesweb.com part of the www.sparesweb.com group Acquired by G Bentley ltd. tel : 0121 772 5000 9.30am - 8pm mon-friday 9-5 Saturday NEW trade counter

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united kingdom

tel : 0121 772 5000
fax : 0121 772 6222

Electronic mail
info@gbentley.co.uk
Send mail to info@gbentley.co.uk with questions or comments about this web site.
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Really? A "vacation" because of a stupid inconvenience?

Just hit "no".

After I approved the adobe one (oops), I've been getting these two things:

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Updated On: 10/16/09 at 11:03 AM

I'm getting those same things on my mac, Besty....it's so frustrating!

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Besty, I'm getting that applet screen also on my macs.

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Yea, I got it too. And you're right besty, Norton isn't a guarantee.

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"It's weird that Flash is coming from anywhere other than Adobe's website. I scanned my computer just to be safe."


That's because it's not really a Flash plug-in, and it's not coming from Adobe. It's spyware! And by hitting "accept" or "run program," you are allowing it to have full access to your hard drive. So don't do that.

I'm glad I have Norton, and it's catching it on my laptop and sending me notices that "an attack on my computer from sparesweb.com has been blocked."

Yay for Norton. But I can't say I'm happy about seeing these attacks coming in, every time I visit BWW.

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I would certainly hope it's coming from one of the ads and not from BWW's website directly. I can't imagine that.

As Craig and Rob have described before, many of their ads are part of a "grouped service" that rotates them at random from third-party sources. I would look to this first as the issue.

Just like when, in the past, inappropriate or offensive content has randomly rotated into this site.

Rob and/or Craig have contacted them in the past, and those offensive ads have been removed from rotation.

I would think this would take a little more legwork as to which ad is using this spyware, but it still could and should be accomplished quickly.

As far as disabling Flash, I'm not sure that would stop it. It might stop the requests from this phony Adobe plug-in company from popping up, so you wouldn't have to deny them access each time. But if it rotates in as part of the ad block "action script" even without Flash, then it wouldn't help solve it at all.

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