<p>I have been coming on cc for years. The past few months have been terrible with regards to malware warnings and the hack not too long ago. I almost exclusively post from my phone now as I have just about zero trust in cc atm.</p>
<p>I am not having any problems at all either at home or work. I DID get the FBI virus the last time this all happened (at work) and IT had to do some work.</p>
<p>I am still getting the alerts on firefox today. It does seem as though traffic on the site has dropped off in this latest round of virus concerns. Isn’t there usually a flutter of activity on this the last day of this year’s decision process?</p>
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<p>The above is for … google.com! :)</p>
<p>This said, I have picked my share of problems that originated on College Confidential, including a number of “ad servers” that are impossible to eradicate. Thanks Akamai and the bandits you actively support! </p>
<p>However, all must be well. Just as it is with his Apple tools, BCEagle has no problems. and that means that all of us are dreaming up the issues!</p>
<p>This morning I got the malware warning and ignored it. :o</p>
<p>After awhile, I noticed it was taking forever for CC pages to load. I went to websitenotworking.com to see if it was my computer or CC. When you go to that site, it tries to ping the last website you were on to see where the problem is. But this time, it kept pinging some porn site, which of course, I have never been on! So it seems as if something was trying to re-direct my computer to another site when I was on CC?</p>
<p>Scary.</p>
<p>Redirecting to “lighter” sites might be part of the new marketing plan to attract the young and curious crowd. :)</p>
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<p>Please, please, please people: don’t ever “ignore” those messages unless you are very sure of what you are doing. </p>
<p>Is I posted before, I’ve turned off Javascript for CC. I don’t know for sure that it will be enough – I also have Avast running on my system, and I’m fairly confident in its ability to protect my computer. However, I wouldn’t go so far as warrant to others that my solution is completely safe. </p>
<p>But the point is-- you should at least take some sort of action to protect yourself. Merely “ignoring” a warning message is rather risky. </p>
<p>I have been performing daily scans from [Sucuri</a> SiteCheck - Free Website Malware Scanner](<a href=“http://sitecheck.sucuri.net/results/talk.collegeconfidential.com]Sucuri”>http://sitecheck.sucuri.net/results/talk.collegeconfidential.com) and they continue to report that there is “blacklisted javascript” on the site – see:
[Sucuri</a> Malware Signatures](<a href=“http://labs.sucuri.net/db/malware/malware-entry-mwblk2]Sucuri”>http://labs.sucuri.net/db/malware/malware-entry-mwblk2) </p>
<p>I don’t understand why the CC server administrator can’t or hasn’t fixed this. (They could pay $90 to the site I linked to above and get an outside service to fix their problem for them. I don’t know whether that is the best or more effective plan, but I am sure that if one company sells a malware scanning and removal service, others do as well).</p>
<p>The security of the site sometimes makes me afraid to use it. I usually have more problems with the mobile app, but today I got all kinds of malware warnings and couldn’t log on.</p>
<p>For firefox users, I highly recommend NoScript, a browser extension that can selectively block java script/flash/java on each site you visit. It works along with AdBlock and is more flexible than disabling javascript globally. </p>
<p>There are NoScript clones out there for Chrome and Safari as well, just google for “Noscript for chrome/safari”.</p>
<p>today was my first time, so i shut off CC for hours. </p>
<p>My patient got the FBI virus last night. her whole family freaked, and called local FBI. I couldn’t believe they got so hysterical, when the site said to pay $400 to fix computer at local 7-11, K)Mart, …</p>
<p>Social Engineering works.</p>
<p>I got the FBI virus too from I’m sure the CC site. Seriously, the grammatical errors alone would have clued me. Mine “fine” was only $300, but they only accused me of violating the “Neglectful Use of Computers Act.” Still, it was total pain. To top it off, I was rear ended this afternoon.</p>
<p>Ah…but did YOUR FBI site include a picture of you taken with YOUR webcam?</p>
<p>For what it’s worth, the Sucuri site scan just came up clean for the first time. (I have no idea who or Sucuri Labs are – it’s just the first site I could find that would easily scan an outside site on demand)</p>
<p>That’s terrifying, Thumper.</p>
<p>I was a little freaked by the incident last year where a school was watching students at home via school-issued laptops. Since then, a post-it covers my laptop’s webcam. The desktop webcam perches on top of the monitor when we’re skyping with D; otherwise, it’s face down on the desk.</p>
<p>Does anyone really know if this site is clean today? I’m using my iPad to access it…don’t want to jeopardize my computer again (despite having added Malware Bytes Pro which is now constantly running).</p>
<p>It would be nice if some one from Hobsons would explain what happened…and give us the green light to use our Windows based machines without fear of another malware attack.</p>
<p>If you are worried about this sort of thing, I’d suggest installing a Virtual Machine on your system and just do your browsing in the Virtual Machine for College Confidential. If you do run into problems, just delete the Virtual Machine and create a new one.</p>
<p>I have additional malware protection now. I’m not installing anything else like virtual machine on my computer. I just won’t use it for CC. I do wish the site folks would update the users on this issue…two days on a ROW of malware warnings is troubling.</p>
<p>Well, you could use a VM for everything. VMs aren’t really a big deal anymore. A lot of people that use Macs have Windows VMs to run Office or other Windows-only programs.</p>