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*CAUTION* Don’t use IE with Needlenose! (*OK now — see update*)

Needlenose was hacked by reactionary spammers! I got the login stuff fixed, but when using IE some weird redirect to a malware site occurs. Can’t figure out how to fix it. Mozilla appears safe, or any non-Microsoft browser.

UPDATE (by Swopa): Good news — Green Boy found the offending code, and IE is now safe to use. The bad news is, apparently our CSS style sheet got confused in the process, which is why the layout may be slightly off if you’re using Internet Explorer, or totally hosed on Firefox for Windows. (Mac browsers seem to be unaffected; I’ve checked both Safari and Firefox.)

Stay tuned for further amateur-repair updates. (Can you tell our regular tech whiz has been unavailable the last couple of days, and your less-savvy hosts have been stumbling through this on our own?)

Stumble it!  

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, June 10th, 2008 at 10:51 pm by greenboy and is filed under Site administration. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

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6 Responses to “*CAUTION* Don’t use IE with Needlenose! (*OK now — see update*)”

  1. WIIIAI Says:
    June 11th, 2008 at 8:06 am

    And the RSS hasn’t been RSSing for several days.

  2. Swopa Says:
    June 11th, 2008 at 9:06 am

    Have you switched to the new feed in the upper right corner?

    We were forced to switch from Drupal so abruptly that we couldn’t send out a final post advising readers to update their RSS feeds. I’d like to correct that, but the old site is still cough FUBARed cough.

  3. WIIIAI Says:
    June 11th, 2008 at 9:32 am

    I did switch. The new RSS worked for a while, but stopped as of the 3rd.

  4. Swopa Says:
    June 11th, 2008 at 9:53 am

    Uh-oh. We’ll commence an investigation immediately to identify a scapegoat.

    After that, maybe we’ll get around to solving the problem.

  5. Scott Says:
    June 13th, 2008 at 9:28 am

    I would advise all visitors of this site who use Internet Explorer to check their systems for the presence of a root kit and auto dialers.

    The re-direct allowed for a “drive by download” of the file ’3107wugfzln[n].exe to the ‘Temporary Internet Files\Content’ directory. This is a ‘Trojan Horse’ for RootkitAgent.C. A dialer ‘Dialer.28.Al’ was also installed to the Java and ActiveX libraries.

    My AV software (updated daily) caught the download, but it still took a bit to close out the session and ensure no other corruption had taken place.

  6. gogo Says:
    June 15th, 2008 at 7:55 am

    “(Mac browsers seem to be unaffected; I’ve checked both Safari and Firefox.)”

    go MAC.

    ~~~gogo