WARNING- GRRM's blog might be infected with a virus

[The Imp]

Just a warning to everyone that i went to Not A blog and my real time virus scanner alerted me that there is a problem on his site. Please use caution going there until it gets cleared up. If you've been there and didn't get an alert from whatever you're using, run a scan now with something better.

If anyone is interested, i use the paid version of AVG, which I consider to be the best out there. The free version has fewer features but is also excelent.

 

[Ursa major]

Thanks for the warning, TI. My next destination after reading the threads here was to have been that site.

(I think I can wait until any problems there are cleared.)

 

[Pyan]

Just checked, and avast! doesn't have any warnings, Imp. Anyone with Norton, BitDefender or Kaspersky showing anything?

 

[The Imp]

I just checked again and got the same alert. the file name is uav.tidaltv.com/3PDPHandler.aspx?app=10&bk1=65,2126

It seems to be associated with Internet Explorer.

I just opened Not A Blog with Chrome and had no issues. I think this might only be an IE problem

 

[Ursa major]

As an IE user, I'm still going to stay away from there for a while.

 

[The Imp]

As an IE user, I'm still going to stay away from there for a while.

i've gone to the site a couple of times over the past hour and got no alert messages. I think they got it fixed. I'll check back after dinner and give an update.

 

[Werthead]

That's not a problem with his blog, but with LiveJournal itself, which has been attacked by hackers several times this year. Using Firefox, I've not experienced any problems with it recently.

 

[The Imp]

Re: WARNING- GRRM blog might be infected with a virus

That's not a problem with his blog, but with LiveJournal itself, which has been attacked by hackers several times this year. Using Firefox, I've not experienced any problems with it recently.

I should have specified that, thanks for the addition. Again, I think the problem is a security vulnerability in Interent Explorer (what a chsock) as I didn't experience anything out of the ordinary using Chrome.