To Visitors of Floatzel.net, VictoryBattles.net, and VictoryRoad.net:

Starting December 3rd, 2010, and lasting somewhere around a week, Google Adsense (our ad provider), as well as MSN's own ad provider, were both attacked with a form of malware that may have affected the Victory Road Network as well a variety of other sites on the internet - including both Google and MSN.com. While we are unaware if any people here at Victory Road were for sure affected, we encourage those with lax security policies, or who have noticed abnormalities over the past week, to check.

The attacks themselves use a variety of exploits, including:

• A vulnerability in Internet Explorer 6, 6 SP1, and 7 (though neither 8 nor 9) with the "iepeers.dll" library. (More Info)
• An exploit in Java JDK and JRE 6 Update 10 - Update 19 (More Info)
• Multiple exploits in Adobe Reader and Acrobat affecting versions 7, 8, and 9 (though not 9.1). (More Info 1, 2, 3, 4)
• A flaw in Active X, affecting MDAC 2.7 and 2.8. This is believed to affect IE 6 and 7 but not 8. (More Info)

Thanks a lot FW. I'm guessing firefox is unaffected?

Anyone who has an outdated version of Adobe Reader or Java could get it - admittedly on Windows I am susceptible to both.

Edit: Keep in mind there's a good chance all people infected got it from some other site, but still since some people are infected...

So, unless my quick skim and scan of both those links for the HDD scan failed me, I'm still wondering: How do I get rid of it?
It's not working anymore, I put a stop to it but it's still installed on my computer. I mean not that I really care that it's there, because it doesn't work anymore, but still... any ideas?

And thanks for the info, Freeze.

Thanks for the information, Freeze. I'm planning to update my computer's operating system and get a new software for it altogether in the next few days, so I think I'm less susceptible to these attacks (or at least I hope so).

I haven't noticed anything suspicious yet. I will keep my eyes open though for any unusual thing. Thanks Freeze for the notice.

I wonder if this has anything to do with the fact that I can't click links on WLM anymore as they appear plain text and need to be manually copied... I hate it when M$ does this kinda crap.

More people talking about vulnerabilities. I like that. <3

A little bit off-topic but...

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Originally Posted by Alakazamaster I think the fact that I keep getting e-mails containing viruses from you MAY be an issue....

Part of it could be people following the links and supplying their passwords to scrupulous sites, which then send everyone on the contact list the same message.

I just got some malware that is called "Backdoor:Win32/IRCbot.DL" I wonder if it has to do with this.

Oh I'm so glad that I somehow manage to keep things up-to-date and I'm also somehow able to avoid viruses like a crafty drunk on New Year's day. (I just stumble about, avoiding anything bad)

I've been using Chrome and I haven't been infected by the recent malware attack or whatever you call it yet, however I'm cautious about where I go so I don't get it at all.

This is actually kind of worrying to me, my computer suddenly started lagging a ton around the time when Adsense got infected, and I didn't have Java up to date at the time...

...Crap.