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My work computer blocks it - because it is a website based in russia. The reason that russian wesites are blocked is because of the amount of malware and cybercrimes associated with russian sites.
Today while perusing poetrade on my personal computer, it kicked me out to one of those "hi-jack" sites that tries to phish for personal information by telling you that your computer has detected malware and that you must call a (877) phone number to get your computer fixed.
GGG's tacit support and approval of poetrade without any of GGG's quality control means that this site could potentially compromise a lot of GGG's customers. This may not be because the guy running poetrade is consciously trying to distribute malware, it is because russian ISPs, webhosting, etc is notoriously shady.
/rant
Last bumped on Nov 10, 2016, 5:17:47 PM
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Posted byMBata#2543on Nov 7, 2016, 6:03:13 PM
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No, its a lie.
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Posted byRexeos#3429on Nov 7, 2016, 6:08:15 PM
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MBata wrote:
My work computer blocks it - because it is a website based in russia. The reason that russian wesites are blocked is because of the amount of malware and cybercrimes associated with russian sites.
Today while perusing poetrade on my personal computer, it kicked me out to one of those "hi-jack" sites that tries to phish for personal information by telling you that your computer has detected malware and that you must call a (877) phone number to get your computer fixed.
GGG's tacit support and approval of poetrade without any of GGG's quality control means that this site could potentially compromise a lot of GGG's customers. This may not be because the guy running poetrade is consciously trying to distribute malware, it is because russian ISPs, webhosting, etc is notoriously shady.
/rant
What the hell are you doing looking at poe.trade while you're at work?
You won't be able to actually do any trading unless you're in-game.
And if you're playing games at work and are still employed there, where do you work at and are they hiring?
"Let those with infinite free time pave the road with their corpses." - reboticon
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Posted bycrystalwitch#6044on Nov 7, 2016, 6:20:12 PM
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MBata wrote:
My work computer blocks it - because it is a website based in russia. The reason that russian wesites are blocked is because of the amount of malware and cybercrimes associated with russian sites.
Today while perusing poetrade on my personal computer, it kicked me out to one of those "hi-jack" sites that tries to phish for personal information by telling you that your computer has detected malware and that you must call a (877) phone number to get your computer fixed.
GGG's tacit support and approval of poetrade without any of GGG's quality control means that this site could potentially compromise a lot of GGG's customers. This may not be because the guy running poetrade is consciously trying to distribute malware, it is because russian ISPs, webhosting, etc is notoriously shady.
/rant
It's not the site itself but one of the ads. Ad blockers are your friend.
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Posted byRandall#0850on Nov 7, 2016, 6:30:42 PM
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crystalwitch wrote:
What the hell are you doing looking at poe.trade while you're at work?
THATS the real question here hahaha
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Posted byrade0n#0446on Nov 7, 2016, 6:44:21 PM
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rade0n wrote:
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crystalwitch wrote:
What the hell are you doing looking at poe.trade while you're at work?
THATS the real question here hahaha
Conference calls.
Too.
Many.
Useless.
Conference calls.
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Posted byMBata#2543on Nov 7, 2016, 9:31:03 PM
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MBata wrote:
My work computer blocks it - because it is a website based in russia. The reason that russian wesites are blocked is because of the amount of malware and cybercrimes associated with russian sites.
Today while perusing poetrade on my personal computer, it kicked me out to one of those "hi-jack" sites that tries to phish for personal information by telling you that your computer has detected malware and that you must call a (877) phone number to get your computer fixed.
GGG's tacit support and approval of poetrade without any of GGG's quality control means that this site could potentially compromise a lot of GGG's customers. This may not be because the guy running poetrade is consciously trying to distribute malware, it is because russian ISPs, webhosting, etc is notoriously shady.
/rant
Never happened to me .
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Posted byskaterboy80#3665on Nov 8, 2016, 4:35:14 AM
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quick way to clear this up....
hacks coming from russia is a myth http://map.norsecorp.com/#/ i say that as general statement, yes their are hacks from russia just likes theres hacks from anywhere there is a device connected to the internet
use an ad blocker as previously suggested if this solves ur issue then ignore the rest of this.
if not
disable all ur browser extnsions and addons, run task manager (as admin if needed)
my assumption is that you are browsing using chrome
in task manager with all extensions disabled, u should only see 1 Chrome.exe running under processes...if u see more then one process your chrome has been already hijacked,even worse if that machine has been shutdown or had a hard reboot since its very likely to have a rootkit...
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Posted bymrwk420#0000on Nov 8, 2016, 5:08:03 AM
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mrwk420 wrote:
if you are using firefox, being browser jacked is the least of your companies it security problems.
Could you expand on that please?
I'm mildly concerned.
"Let those with infinite free time pave the road with their corpses." - reboticon
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Posted bycrystalwitch#6044on Nov 9, 2016, 4:43:55 AM
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mrwk420 wrote:
quick way to clear this up....
hacks coming from russia is a myth http://map.norsecorp.com/#/ i say that as general statement, yes their are hacks from russia just likes theres hacks from anywhere there is a device connected to the internet
use an ad blocker as previously suggested if this solves ur issue then ignore the rest of this.
if not
disable all ur browser extnsions and addons, run task manager (as admin if needed)
my assumption is that you are browsing using chrome
in task manager with all extensions disabled, u should only see 1 Chrome.exe running under processes...if u see more then one process your chrome has been already hijacked,even worse if that machine has been shutdown or had a hard reboot since its very likely to have a rootkit...
if you are using firefox, being browser jacked is the least of your companies it security problems.
Whats the resolution to the rootkit issue?
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Posted byMBata#2543on Nov 10, 2016, 9:18:18 AM
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