Uhm WTF Virus encountered while viewing a hive forum page?

[Darkshooter1986]

Just a few minutes ago while in the map development forums, i ran across a malware block page where it warned me about malware ahead. happened while viewing the tales of the footman post or something...

 

[PurgeandFire]

Yep, same thing happened to me.

It is because anygif.org is deemed as "harmful" by chrome, and someone probably linked an image from it.

EDIT: It is just a user's signature that is coming from anygif.org. I have sent him a PM requesting that he host the gif on a different site.

Don't worry, it is not anything related to the hive. While I don't believe you'll get any malware from viewing the signature, you may want to avoid viewing threads that display that warning until the signature change is made. Thanks for the report.

 

[chobibo]

Is the blocking the work of an anti-virus? I don't seem to be have a blocking thing like that, as I don't have anti-virus software, only a host file from mvpshosts.

 

[Ralle]

This warning is sort of aggressive. The gif site contains something bad, but because somebody links to a single image from it does not mean that Hive has viruses.

 

[Dr Super Good]

Occasionally some of the adverts used by Hive have been reported to contain malware however it is unclear if this is regional (due to region targeted advertising) or if it is the result of an underlying infection of adware on the user's PC. I do think Ralle has changed the advert provider since then though.

 

[Ralle]

Oh yeah. No bidvertiser ever again.

 

[Kyrbi0]

Ah, glad this got cleared up. I was having problems as well (both CRIS's Infantry model & Sellenisko's Twilight Ascendant), but hadn't gotten around to reporting it.

 

[Ralle]

I removed a gif from somebody's signature. That solved the problem.