Warriors Beware - Slideshare Virus issue

07-25-2009, 09:09 PM	#1
cowrob Active Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Los Angeles, CA Posts: 68 Thanks: 1 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Warriors Beware - Slideshare Virus issue Just wanted to offer a heads up to steer clear of Slideshare.net - the online presentation sharing site at least for the time being. Since Thursday, about 15 folks I know who have visited the site and clicked on links have had suspicious looking pop-ups show up on their screen saying their machine has been infected by a virus, and then some additional popups that are impossible to get rid of. Most folks have been able to escape by closing their browsers or shutting down their computers. Don't know if its just scary mischief or something more serious. But its happened to enough folks I know, that I thought I would put out a warning for any of you who post your stuff there, or view stuff there. No word from Slideshare on exactly what is going on. And these aren't suspicious links -- these are regular links on the site to view slideshows, log in, etc. Never experienced anything like that before. But thought I would save you a fright.
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07-25-2009, 11:57 PM	#2
AskStevenSmith HyperActive Warrior Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 109 Thanks: 18 Thanked 12 Times in 12 Posts	Re: Warriors Beware - Slideshare Virus issue Thanks for the heads up, I'll stay far away. Steve

07-26-2009, 01:29 AM	#3
George Wright You R GREAT if you are A War Room Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Shakey/Sunny CA, USA. Posts: 5,372 Blog Entries: 31 Thanks: 1,496 Thanked 752 Times in 269 Posts	Re: Warriors Beware - Slideshare Virus issue Sounds like they are selling virus removal software. I hate that phony popup "virus detector." It's supposed to scare you into buying. Then better safe than sorry. Stay Away. George Wright
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07-26-2009, 09:31 AM	#4
Vince Runza Online Local Biz Promotion Czar War Room Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Scranton, PA, USA. Posts: 3,274 Thanks: 61 Thanked 150 Times in 66 Posts Social Networking Contact Info	Re: Warriors Beware - Slideshare Virus issue I saw this posted over at Slideshare's Support site (don't worry, you won't run into the virus problem here): Slideshare virus infection simply by clicking slideshow links on site
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07-26-2009, 09:40 AM	#5
hamzagee Warrior Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 29 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Re: Warriors Beware - Slideshare Virus issue It is better to stay far away from things like virus but what is the name and condition of the virus to kill?

07-26-2009, 09:41 AM	#6
SurviveUnemployment Glad I Got Canned Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: NY Posts: 514 Thanks: 261 Thanked 54 Times in 40 Posts Social Networking	Re: Warriors Beware - Slideshare Virus issue Everybody who's using Firefox should install the NoScript extension. It totally eliminates all this junk unless you allow a site that serves viruses, and that's on you.
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07-26-2009, 09:47 AM	#7
pur113810 Warrior Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 18 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: Warriors Beware - Slideshare Virus issue Shouldn’t any paid up network firewall suppose to stop things like this? Let me tell you something, I am often disturbed by the performance of my anti virus. Sometimes it makes my software corrupted, and not just any anti virus, many of them does the same thing. Any way thanks for the advance warnings.

07-26-2009, 03:03 PM	#8
macD231 Active Warrior Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 40 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Re: Warriors Beware - Slideshare Virus issue Thanks for sharing this information. It will help to be aware of such viruses so that could not fall in to such mess.

07-26-2009, 03:15 PM

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Re: Warriors Beware - Slideshare Virus issue

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Originally Posted by pur113810

Shouldn’t any paid up network firewall suppose to stop things like this? Let me tell you something, I am often disturbed by the performance of my anti virus. Sometimes it makes my software corrupted, and not just any anti virus, many of them does the same thing.

Any way thanks for the advance warnings.

Which anti-virus software are you using?