mircleman Posted July 8, 2006 Share Posted July 8, 2006 Thats allot of the issues with large websites, large corporate networks etc they dont keep up with exploits and scripts bcause there are so many. but again that goes back to my arugument of web standards and if you cant hire someone in I.T. or a i.t. team that can keep these exploits and scripts out of the network they shouldnt be up but thats just my view. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/476942-have-the-forums-been-hacked/page/5/#findComment-587682542 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shof Posted July 8, 2006 Share Posted July 8, 2006 mircleman said: Thats allot of the issues with large websites, large corporate networks etc they dont keep up with exploits and scripts bcause there are so many. but again that goes back to my arugument of web standards and if you cant hire someone in I.T. or a i.t. team that can keep these exploits and scripts out of the network they shouldnt be up but thats just my view. like a virus or spyware scanner, if a spyware/virus goes undetected because the problem does not detect it..whos falut is that? The company that makes the program for not producing a faster update to detect that detect stuff that goes undeteced or you visting a site with that undetected virus NOTHING is hacker safe, NOTHING is safe, WE all (as human,websites, company) are vulrenable to attacks Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/476942-have-the-forums-been-hacked/page/5/#findComment-587682551 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mircleman Posted July 8, 2006 Share Posted July 8, 2006 Shof said: like a virus or spyware scanner, if a spyware/virus goes undetected because the problem does not detect it..whos falut is that? The company that makes the program for not producing a faster update to detect that detect stuff that goes undeteced or you visting a site with that undetected virus NOTHING is hacker safe, NOTHING is safe, WE all (as human,websites, company) are vulrenable to attacks Thats pure nonsense it takes more then anti virus and a firewall to protect your network i created a database program that took every single exploit and script ever created and put them togather I run that program on our network we have never been hacked to date because of that nor has any script or explot been used against us or the company. and it updates daily as new ones are discovered. my point is this could a hacker get in sure, a professional hacker sure they could. my point is it would be very very difficult. so the point is no nothing is perfect but you can make it almost impossible to do so with a little forttude.as far as nothign is hack proof thats about to change but i wont get into that debate of a program cant be created that cant be hacked . its like fort knox could someone get in..sure but it would take more then 99% of people are willing to go thru :) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/476942-have-the-forums-been-hacked/page/5/#findComment-587682571 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sachleen Posted July 8, 2006 Share Posted July 8, 2006 There should be a warning on the main site smoehwere so before someone using IE goes to the forum they can know what tehy are getting into... I know its only on IE and unprotected systems, but you never know how many people go into that category.. :( Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/476942-have-the-forums-been-hacked/page/5/#findComment-587682576 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bhav Posted July 8, 2006 Share Posted July 8, 2006 Virus? What virus? :p Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/476942-have-the-forums-been-hacked/page/5/#findComment-587682581 Share on other sites More sharing options...
James123 Posted July 8, 2006 Share Posted July 8, 2006 aos101 said: Um, where is it? The only iframes I can see in the code are Neowin ones. ...It's right at the top, just below the body tag (I won't post the iframe code as I believe the mod asked people not to earlier) Example of it... ^^ That is what happens, if you go to a page with IE (Fully patched, 0 updates on windows updates left), and no anti-virus. Taken 5 minutes ago. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/476942-have-the-forums-been-hacked/page/5/#findComment-587682587 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkyoshi Posted July 8, 2006 Share Posted July 8, 2006 Windows Defender will also help prevent it. On my computer it kicked in before Symantec. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/476942-have-the-forums-been-hacked/page/5/#findComment-587682593 Share on other sites More sharing options...
aos101 Posted July 8, 2006 Share Posted July 8, 2006 James123 said: ...It's right at the top, just below the body tag (I won't post the iframe code as I believe the mod asked people not to earlier) Example of it... ^^ That is what happens, if you go to a page with IE (Fully patched, 0 updates on windows updates left), and no anti-virus. Taken 5 minutes ago. Not showing for me. Have you tried clearing your cache? When this site pulls the source it doesn't show the iframe: http://web-sniffer.net/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fw...niffer%2F1.0.24 Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/476942-have-the-forums-been-hacked/page/5/#findComment-587682601 Share on other sites More sharing options...
James123 Posted July 8, 2006 Share Posted July 8, 2006 Yes, I have cleared my cache. That site doesn't get it, because it only displays if you're logged in. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/476942-have-the-forums-been-hacked/page/5/#findComment-587682611 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkyoshi Posted July 8, 2006 Share Posted July 8, 2006 James123 said: Yes, I have cleared my cache. That site doesn't get it, because it only displays if you're logged in. Same with me, i'm logged in and no malicious code. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/476942-have-the-forums-been-hacked/page/5/#findComment-587682614 Share on other sites More sharing options...
James123 Posted July 8, 2006 Share Posted July 8, 2006 It's also only there on three of the themes... Neowin v3 (Silver ONLY) Neowin v2 IPB Default Skin Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/476942-have-the-forums-been-hacked/page/5/#findComment-587682625 Share on other sites More sharing options...
aos101 Posted July 8, 2006 Share Posted July 8, 2006 James123 said: Yes, I have cleared my cache. That site doesn't get it, because it only displays if you're logged in. Earlier on when I saw it it was displaying for guests. Do you get the same results in a different browser? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/476942-have-the-forums-been-hacked/page/5/#findComment-587682628 Share on other sites More sharing options...
James123 Posted July 8, 2006 Share Posted July 8, 2006 Nope. In Firefox, Safari, IE, Konqueror & Opera it's only there whilst I'm logged in, and only on those three themes I specified above. Not sure about everyone else though? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/476942-have-the-forums-been-hacked/page/5/#findComment-587682635 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkyoshi Posted July 8, 2006 Share Posted July 8, 2006 James123 said: It's also only there on three of the themes... Neowin v3 (Silver ONLY) Neowin v2 IPB Default Skin Ahh ok maybe that's why, i'm on Neowin v3 Swift. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/476942-have-the-forums-been-hacked/page/5/#findComment-587682639 Share on other sites More sharing options...
aos101 Posted July 8, 2006 Share Posted July 8, 2006 James123 said: It's also only there on three of the themes... Neowin v3 (Silver ONLY) Neowin v2 IPB Default Skin Ahh you are using a different theme. I was using the default one. It does still seem to be there on some themes, in which case you are very right to be annoyed it is still there. I wonder how many people are still being exposed to this then? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/476942-have-the-forums-been-hacked/page/5/#findComment-587682645 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blaine Posted July 8, 2006 Share Posted July 8, 2006 new announcement from front page: Quote We have been hit with an exploit that affects Invision Board 2.1.5 and was later improved to exploit v2.1.6 (our version). Our coders are currently working on a fix for this exploit and we've had to temporarily close the forums as a result.If you have a virus scanner installed and got the following message while browsing Neowin forums: Win32/Exploit.WMF Trojan than you have been hit with this exploit. If you browse Neowin with Internet Explorer and have the latest security patches (post SP2) you should be unaffected. First reports also indicate that Firefox users are unaffected, we'll keep you updated. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/476942-have-the-forums-been-hacked/page/5/#findComment-587682648 Share on other sites More sharing options...
James123 Posted July 8, 2006 Share Posted July 8, 2006 Ah that's good news. Strangely the WMF exploit affected the PC (it was in VMWare) in the picture I posted above (but it had every security patch). Anyway at least it's being fixed :). Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/476942-have-the-forums-been-hacked/page/5/#findComment-587682653 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shetland Posted July 8, 2006 Share Posted July 8, 2006 this happened once before about a year ago if i recall. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/476942-have-the-forums-been-hacked/page/5/#findComment-587682676 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draconian Guppy Posted July 8, 2006 Share Posted July 8, 2006 Well i'm at Opera 9, unpatched windows, AVG says nothing :) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/476942-have-the-forums-been-hacked/page/5/#findComment-587682712 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stunna Posted July 9, 2006 Share Posted July 9, 2006 zipgenius said: I think that someone has been affected: not everybody has applied the WMF patch :( Was the WMF patch a normal windows update patch or was it a manual download? How did you decode that source to figure out the website? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/476942-have-the-forums-been-hacked/page/5/#findComment-587682833 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shof Posted July 9, 2006 Share Posted July 9, 2006 Either neowin fixed the problem or nod32 dont show alerts, but i dont get anything when i view neowin with IE (maybe it is becuase i also have xp pro sp2 with autopatch and zonealarm pro): Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/476942-have-the-forums-been-hacked/page/5/#findComment-587682859 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krome Posted July 9, 2006 Share Posted July 9, 2006 I am going to assume that I am safe since I've never encounter those iFrame pop-ups in the first place. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/476942-have-the-forums-been-hacked/page/5/#findComment-587682923 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ANova Posted July 9, 2006 Share Posted July 9, 2006 Opera doesn't even acknowledge the code let alone try to run it. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/476942-have-the-forums-been-hacked/page/5/#findComment-587683024 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nashy Posted July 9, 2006 Share Posted July 9, 2006 mmmm Firefox Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/476942-have-the-forums-been-hacked/page/5/#findComment-587683517 Share on other sites More sharing options...
simsie Posted July 9, 2006 Share Posted July 9, 2006 Shof: it only affects certain skins (v2 - ipb default and v3 (swift) silver). Seeing as you are using black it won't be a problem Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/476942-have-the-forums-been-hacked/page/5/#findComment-587683691 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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