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grumpyuncle

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Website May Harm Computer??
« on: April 05, 2009, 12:32:40 AM »
I was looking for a new  gaming keyboard today and I went to  Wolf King Keyboards  to see where I could buy one of their keyboards. Avast immediately gave me an alert that this site may harm computer and  JS:Packed-AA [Trj} has been found. I am running a scan right now but don't know if I should be worried or not. I have visited the site before and never had any problems with it but that was quite sometime ago. If anyone knows what to make of this alert I would appreciate it.
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Re: Website May Harm Computer??
« Reply #1 on: April 05, 2009, 12:47:29 AM »
OK, it looks like avast isn't the only one not to like this site as firefox also pops up an alert, see image1.

The avast JS:Packed- alert is usually an indication that the site has been hacked.

There is a big chunk of obfuscated javascript after the closing html tag a standards no, no and highly suspicious as javascript is a plain language scripting language so yo obfuscate it to hide the intent is suspect.

So it looks like this site has been hacked.
« Last Edit: April 05, 2009, 12:54:19 AM by DavidR »
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Re: Website May Harm Computer??
« Reply #2 on: April 05, 2009, 01:01:15 AM »
The site works fine with my XP Pro system but I would not buy anything from them.

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« Reply #3 on: April 05, 2009, 02:33:45 AM »
It isn't that it works fine with XP Pro (if you haven't noticed I'm using XP Pro), it is firefox that provides an extra level of protection which IE obviously doesn't. The first image is of firefox blocking the site.

I had to use IE to be able to get avast to alert (to gather the info that I did) as firefox wouldn't let it get that far.
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grumpyuncle

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Re: Website May Harm Computer??
« Reply #4 on: April 05, 2009, 02:50:44 AM »
Thanks guys for checking it out. I  ran a complete scan and  Avast didn't find anything. I also checked my virus vault and there are no new items in there so hopefully all is good.
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Re: Website May Harm Computer??
« Reply #6 on: April 05, 2009, 03:29:12 PM »
The site works fine with my XP Pro system
Do you mean that avast does not trigger it as infected?

I  ran a complete scan and  Avast didn't find anything. I also checked my virus vault and there are no new items in there so hopefully all is good.
Webshield should have blocked the infection even before any file was saved to the computer.
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Re: Website May Harm Computer??
« Reply #7 on: April 05, 2009, 03:40:24 PM »
The site works fine with my XP Pro system
Do you mean that avast does not trigger it as infected?

I use Avira AntiVir on my XP Pro system so it appears normally without blocking but like I said I would not buy anything from them.


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Re: Website May Harm Computer??
« Reply #8 on: April 05, 2009, 04:07:12 PM »
I use Avira AntiVir on my XP Pro system so it appears normally
You will agree that this means something against Avira, worse detection... avast is quite accurate on checking obfuscated and encrypted scripts on webpages.
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Re: Website May Harm Computer??
« Reply #9 on: April 05, 2009, 04:39:14 PM »
The point I was trying to make if YoKenny was using his hated firefox and not IE he would have got an alert and that wasn't down to his OS or his AV ;D
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