Links to convart.com

[clawster]

Hey Anthony,

There's been some talk on the shoutbox today:

hippy :

Chrome spazzing out on ecogamer: Warning: Visiting this site may harm your computer! The website at www.ecogamer.com contains elements from the site convart.com, which appears to host malware ? software that can hurt your computer or otherwise operate without your consent. Just visiting a site that contains malware can infect your computer. For detailed information about the problems with these elements, visit the Google Safe Browsing diagnostic page for convart.com. Learn more about how to pr

hippy :

So erm whats going on with this?

JustMan75 :

Yes, just noticed it too. Not sure where ecogamer is calling convart.com from, but this is what google has to say about it: ?link?  Because I laugh in the face of danger, and so opened ecogamer in Firefox, which had no qualms about it.

?link? is this - http://safebrowsing.clients.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=convart.com

Do we have a dodgy advertiser or something?

[anonoz]

I'm also getting this junk too.

[Anthony]

I logged on tonight and get virus reports on Avira. Ill have to look into it (there goes all my plans for this evening)

[Im Cheap]

mine says its linked to  baidustatz.com

[HessianSack]

Safari is telling me baidustatz.com too

[Anthony]

Well as you can see I got it sorted out. After work today Ill put together an explaination of what happened, hopefully bring back confidence after some people would have seen that big warning when opening the site.

[Chopbuster]

When I visited this site yesterday it downloaded 2 exe files to my temp Internet files and to my desktop which continually tried to run. Symantec Endpoint Protection identified the threat as packed.mystic!gen3.