Personal: Stargate Wikia gave me malware

[campylobacter]

For any of my friends who are wondering if I'm OK, I'm popping by briefly to say yes, I'm physically well (I've even resumed my weight training workouts) and am busy with work, BUT I've been battling STUPID EFFING MALWARE on the Windows laptop I use for one of my clients. Serves me right for surfing Stargate stuff when I should've been finishing up the minutes to a board meeting.

OMG, I cannot WAIT until I get a Macbook so I don't have to deal with this crap anymore.

So I have a neglected FList and a stack of email to catch up with, all thanks to a lovely virus called "Internet Security 2010" that installed itself and popped up a raft of the most annoying nag screens ever, and which took 2 patches and another computer to remove the virus.

I'll be back on LJ as soon as I can (after I catch up on my RL busy-ness), so please don't feel like I'm ignoring you. (Especially  hummingfly67 , dvfan , and misshapenmuse , who all got interrupted mid-correspondence.)

Warning: Visiting this site may harm your computer!
The website at stargate.wikia.com contains elements from the site 212.117.180.54, which appears to host malware – software that can hurt your computer or otherwise operate without your consent. Just visiting a site that contains malware can infect your computer.
For detailed information about the problems with these elements, visit the Google Safe Browsing diagnostic page for 212.117.180.54.
Learn more about how to protect yourself from harmful software online.

Safe Browsing
Diagnostic page for 212.117.180.0
What is the current listing status for 212.117.180.0?
This site is not currently listed as suspicious.
What happened when Google visited this site?
Of the 100 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 0 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 2010-02-04, and the last time suspicious content was found on this site was on 2010-02-04.
Malicious software includes 105 trojan(s), 102 exploit(s), 1 scripting exploit(s).
This site was hosted on 1 network(s) including AS5577 (ROOT).
Has this site acted as an intermediary resulting in further distribution of malware?
Over the past 90 days, 212.117.180.0 did not appear to function as an intermediary for the infection of any sites.
Has this site hosted malware?
Yes, this site has hosted malicious software over the past 90 days. It infected 111 domain(s), including nonciclopedia.wikia.com/,nonsensopedia.wikia.com/, inciclopedia.wikia.com/.

Comments

[cleothemuse.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the heads-up... I'll be avoiding Wikia for a little while, then, though I use it for only Mass Effect, which I haven't played in a while.

For Stargate wiki, I go to Solutions

Put Avast! on that laptop... good stuff :)

(You do realize Macs get malware too? It's just not as common for Macs because there aren't as many of 'em so hackers concentrate on PCs? ...and with Macs on the rise, expect more malware aimed at 'em.)