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Wrong Planet seems to have been hacked
« on: March 11, 2018, 08:43:37 AM »
I just tried going there, and it displayed a server login popup and started playing an audio message (sounded like a text to speech program) saying that my computer was transmitting my Facebook login and bank details or some shit. I had to close Firefox via the task manager. The audio message was probably bullshit (I hope), but I'm running a full scan on Defender anyway.
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Re: Wrong Planet seems to have been hacked
« Reply #1 on: March 11, 2018, 08:52:02 AM »
It'd be great if it imploded
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Re: Wrong Planet seems to have been hacked
« Reply #2 on: March 11, 2018, 09:14:59 AM »
It's not the first time I've seen something like that there, but it's the first time I've heard it play audio. I had NoScript on my old computer, though. I wonder if it's a frequent occurrence. I don't go to WP very often.
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Re: Wrong Planet seems to have been hacked
« Reply #3 on: March 11, 2018, 09:46:43 AM »
Quote from: Al Swearengen on March 11, 2018, 08:52:02 AM
It'd be great if it imploded
   
  ... all that ugly green, blue, and yellow, collapsing into the black hole of the site!  :rofl:
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Re: Wrong Planet seems to have been hacked
« Reply #4 on: March 11, 2018, 10:09:47 AM »
That sounds like the typical spyware/adware that WP has always been infected with.

With 2x4 basically gone from the site, I imagine the site needs some major league cleaning up.
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Re: Wrong Planet seems to have been hacked
« Reply #5 on: March 11, 2018, 12:23:29 PM »
How... sad.
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Re: Wrong Planet seems to have been hacked
« Reply #6 on: March 11, 2018, 07:48:40 PM »
Quote from: Go Piss Up A Rope on March 11, 2018, 10:09:47 AM
That sounds like the typical spyware/adware that WP has always been infected with.

With 2x4 basically gone from the site, I imagine the site needs some major league cleaning up.
The last few times trying to read there, anti-virus blocked attacks. It's been avoided for a while.
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Re: Wrong Planet seems to have been hacked
« Reply #7 on: March 11, 2018, 07:58:47 PM »
The only thing that came up in the Defender scan was a file in Firefox's temp folder that it couldn't identify and wanted to send to MS for analysis. Malwarebytes found nothing. I've cleared all cookies and temp files in Firefox and reset all my passwords, and my Facebook and Bank account show no sign of any untoward activity other than my own.
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Re: Wrong Planet seems to have been hacked
« Reply #8 on: March 11, 2018, 08:24:38 PM »
Just tried going there on my Kindle. All I got was a blank page. Definitely something going wrong there.

Yesterday I was getting pop-ups saying "Rats! Web GL just hit a snag. Learn more."

"Reload" "Ignore"
It was a very annoying pop-up.
« Last Edit: March 11, 2018, 08:31:43 PM by renaeden »
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Re: Wrong Planet seems to have been hacked
« Reply #9 on: March 11, 2018, 09:02:09 PM »
Is this the end of WP?
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Re: Wrong Planet seems to have been hacked
« Reply #10 on: March 11, 2018, 09:06:26 PM »
It's the end of me ever going there again.
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Re: Wrong Planet seems to have been hacked
« Reply #11 on: March 11, 2018, 09:15:33 PM »

I do not know how to respond to that.

It has been many, MANY years since I was there.
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Re: Wrong Planet seems to have been hacked
« Reply #12 on: March 12, 2018, 12:40:28 AM »
Can't say I feel a need to visit the place.
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Re: Wrong Planet seems to have been hacked
« Reply #13 on: March 12, 2018, 04:32:48 AM »
Well one of my interests is autism. And there's plenty there on the subject.
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Re: Wrong Planet seems to have been hacked
« Reply #14 on: March 12, 2018, 06:58:35 AM »
That's up to you, of course. If it's useful, then good.
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