Virus On CAA

[Zarn Ishtare]

In the topic "hey guys" in General (or something like that) Shatter posted a link to somewhere on the site. Well, I go to it, only to have my computer tell me the links destinations security tag is invalid/out of date. Foolish person that I am, I click on the link anyway...and a virus springs out of the internet and tries to crash my internet, as well as my computer. Fortunately, I know how to cut off the connection I've got set up here, and after a five hour deep-scan, things seem ok, but I figured I should tell somebody, but wasn't sure who.

[Ashley]

Uh...okaaaaay.

Actually, he just posted from the secure login that we mods use. I've used it dozens of times and there's never been any problems, and I know for sure if there WAS Mith would have told us ASAP. Perhaps it was just your computer being weird.

[uc pseudonym]

I'm guessing that your computer received the security certificate and that confused it somehow. Remove the "s" from the "https" in the url and I'm guessing that same link will work fine for you.

[Stephen]

*laughs*

Yes Zarn, you have me figured out. I have been working on making a virus for years to take down CAA changing only a single letter in the url. Rats, I've been foiled. I would have gotten away with it too...if it was not for you kids, and that stupid dog!


*Ahem* Yeah. Ash and UC already explained why it did this. It has nothing to do with a virus at all.

[Radical Dreamer]

I've seen that message a number of times, and it never did anything weird for me. Maybe your computer's security settings are too high, or something.

[Zarn Ishtare]

I wasn't leveling an accusation; that would be about the stupidest thing I could say, and I know stupid quite well.

I was fearful that the thread he'd been linking had something done to it, I wasn't sure what.


To explain what happened: I clicked the link and the windows on my internet kept opening. They would not stop, they wouldn't exit, and it almost killed my internet.

[uc pseudonym]

Do you use IE? I've had that problem once or twice on the library computers, whose browsers are... subpar. All I've ever been able to do is restart; I'm not sure what the exact problem is.

[ich1990]

I have had similar problems on IE6. A bunch of blank windows would suddenly pop up out of the blue. I had to use the task manger to shut down the browser. I haven't had any problems with IE7 or Opera9 though. If you are running IE6 you might want to consider upgrading.

[ChristianKitsune]

hmm that only happens to me when I try to close CAA without a page fully loading...and it hasn't happened in a while... but I do what Ich1990 does and try to shut it down..^^;

I wouldn't worry about it...O_o

[Zarn Ishtare]

Yeah, I use IE, and that happened to me.


And I'll upgrade....someday.

[mastersquirrel]

To explain what happened: I clicked the link and the windows on my internet kept opening. They would not stop, they wouldn't exit, and it almost killed my internet.

This actually happened to me recently on my work computer. Every time I'd try to do something on the internet (my work computer only had IE at the time) it would do exactly as you said, start opening up a whole bunch of IE windows. I actually got and installed Firefox on it, and then used Yahoo's spyware scanner and it turns out that a piece of spyware was causing it. After removing that, IE works fine. I don't know if this is what happened with you, but I just thought this might be helpful.

[Mithrandir]

Looks like everyone else answered this one for you. The main reason we don't publish the https url is that the certs cost hundreds of dollars a year to maintain - so we self-sign them. That results in the "unknown authority" message you got. It's perfectly fine, and you can tell your computer to "always accept" it. That will get rid of the error message.