Trojan Infection on SW Forum Site?
Trojan Infection on SW Forum Site?
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I'm getting notices of trojan infestation on the SW forum this morning. Not sure whether this is a false positive, intercepted connection, or what, but I'm attaching a snapshot to show what I mean. The site seems to be hosting a script that runs upon load of the page.
Has anyone seen similar symptoms/warnings? Might be serious, or it might be nothing. I use Avast (Pro), which has a script-sniffer, as well as the no-script add-on within Firefox (which is designated to "allow" the forum page, so would have been ineffective in stopping a trojan-related script in this case). With the script disabled, I cannot post there.
Can anyone verify or debug this issue?
Thanks,
Has anyone seen similar symptoms/warnings? Might be serious, or it might be nothing. I use Avast (Pro), which has a script-sniffer, as well as the no-script add-on within Firefox (which is designated to "allow" the forum page, so would have been ineffective in stopping a trojan-related script in this case). With the script disabled, I cannot post there.
Can anyone verify or debug this issue?
Thanks,
Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
A people governed by fear cannot value freedom.






RE: Trojan Infection on SW Forum Site?
Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
A people governed by fear cannot value freedom.
RE: Trojan Infection on SW Forum Site?
Running Win7 x64 with MS Security Essentials, Windows Defender & Windows Firewall enabled. A quick scan with Malwarebytes reported no problems.
Have you reported your findings to SW? Perhaps you should start a related thread in the forum to see if others there are seeing something similar?
RE: Trojan Infection on SW Forum Site?
Please feel free to pass this along on the SW forum, but until I've got some reasonable certainty this is a mere false positive I'm not going to force allowance of the script. Otherwise, I've sent notice to a couple of people at SolidWorks by email.
Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
A people governed by fear cannot value freedom.
RE: Trojan Infection on SW Forum Site?
RE: Trojan Infection on SW Forum Site?
Just saw an article on a late-edition Java exploit here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/08/27/disable_ja...
Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
A people governed by fear cannot value freedom.
RE: Trojan Infection on SW Forum Site?
RE: Trojan Infection on SW Forum Site?
Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
A people governed by fear cannot value freedom.