Autopia Attacked my Computer???

No doubt! I cannot believe in todays day and age that even if a site got attacted, it could not be fixed within hours??? I am not exactally sure what type of business (income) gets generated over there but the way that site has been run lately it a shame. Seems like they will not spend the $ to do it right. A month or so ago, the server was so slow, the site was unusable. Just like over here, there are some excellent people and recources I will miss. For what its worth we run Vipre AV and I did visit the site before I knew it was infected from work and the PC was uneffected.

Clean Dean said:
I check in on Autopia from time to time, and that visit last week cost me $85 to have the virus removed !!! Its a shame, I was a huge fan of Autopia from 2001 up until a few years ago when DavidB was manning the ship. I am sure that this malicious act will cost the sites owner(s) with a substancial drop in membership.
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Shiny Lil Detlr said:
Go back to not usually commenting on things like this, as you're making zero sense whatsoever. :howdy
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They were referring to this earlier post, I think:
JSFM35X said:
I have no issue going there on my MAC but my PC will not open page as the AVG and Google catch it prior to opening.

There must be a problem with the site, to bad becasue there is alot of good info and recources over there. That and DC are the only site I cruze for detailing.
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holland_patrick said:
Mac run on a different OS and they are seldom attacked because they are still a minority and the hackers don't think of them as a big enough target
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Yeah, I know.... I own both macs and PCs, and I've been an IT professional for over 10 years. That guy just wasn't being very clear in his post.
 
Clean Dean said:
I check in on Autopia from time to time, and that visit last week cost me $85 to have the virus removed !!! Its a shame, I was a huge fan of Autopia from 2001 up until a few years ago when DavidB was manning the ship. I am sure that this malicious act will cost the sites owner(s) with a substancial drop in membership.
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I too used to be a big poster on Autopia, but my opinion of DavidB wasn't so high. If anything I was glad to see him finally leave, almost like it lifted the iron curtain over there.
 
Definately a big change since DavidB's exit. Even though there's been quite a bit of change, I think it's been a positive one. The owner's don't appear to want to be bothered in the "behind the iron curtain" mentality the site once fostered, but these current problems are starting to show how interested they really are in running the site. It has excellent potential if it remains truely non-biased, but time will tell if these hurdles will allow it to grow to its potential.
 
JaredPointer said:
Maybe it was an attack by another detailing forum or by David B.

:D
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X2 - Per another topia member: How something like this can happen when there are a limited number of people who can upload (code) content to the site and that it is done through some secure method?
 
David Fermani said:
X2 - Per another topia member: How something like this can happen when there are a limited number of people who can upload (code) content to the site and that it is done through some secure method?
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It is called hacking. Security can be breached. I just think the new owners of Autopia know little about hosting and all the issues. You just do not do it and walk away. It takes maintenance and constant watch for hacks but that is my theory based upon how slow the responded to the various issues since the upgrade, then host move, then patches, then this.
 
its so quiet on autopia, it feels weird and sad lol. no really. i was there like all the time and now nobody is posting or even commenting there.
 
Bunky said:
It is called hacking. Security can be breached. I just think the new owners of Autopia know little about hosting and all the issues. You just do not do it and walk away. It takes maintenance and constant watch for hacks but that is my theory based upon how slow the responded to the various issues since the upgrade, then host move, then patches, then this.
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When did the ownership transfer take place?
 
sacdetailing said:
its so quiet on autopia, it feels weird and sad lol. no really. i was there like all the time and now nobody is posting or even commenting there.
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Why would anyone even go to the site when it's infected with a virus. I wish the admins would just take the site down until the issues are resolved.

OCDinPDX said:
When did the ownership transfer take place?
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About a year or so ago...

trhland said:
is it safe to go back on autopia?
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No as of today I got this warning via my FF browser

What happened when Google visited this site?

Of the 643 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 292 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 2010-09-01, and the last time suspicious content was found on this site was on 2010-09-01.

Malicious software includes 8 scripting exploit(s), 8 trojan(s), 6 exploit(s). Successful infection resulted in an average of 3 new process(es) on the target machine.

Malicious software is hosted on 8 domain(s), including plotecco.co.cc/, autourl.in/, browserservices.in/.

1 domain(s) appear to be functioning as intermediaries for distributing malware to visitors of this site, including plotecco.co.cc/.

This site was hosted on 2 network(s) including AS31815 (MEDIATEMPLE), AS26496 (PAH).
 
trhland said:
is it safe to go back on autopia?
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Firefox still blocks it if unless you lower your security proferences.

In the general case, I have a Firefox plug in called Noscript that blocks javascripts associated with a web page from running. This helps keep some malicious scripts from basically taking over your browser but unfortunately many web sites rely on it to work properly but the noscript plug in lets you pick which ones to run (usually associated with a specific web site like googleanalytics, etc.)

The bottom line Autopia's loss is everyone else's gain and if you do not keep up your web site you do not deserve the traffic.
 
Pats300zx said:
Why would anyone even go to the site when it's infected with a virus. I wish the admins would just take the site down until the issues are resolved.
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You are a long time mod on Autopia right? Do you have any official info about whats going on over there and what their plans are?
 
I don't have a clue. I haven't heard anything from the admins since this whole mess started.


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