XITED.ORG seems unsafe ATM

[Sounddesigner]

I get strange messages when i go to http://www.xited.org. The last one stated the content of this page is unsafe. There was weird text on top of the XITE-1 picture. Several times i went there there was some sort of pop-up box trying to get me to click it. I believe i contracted a virus from there a couple months ago but was not sure it came from there, now it seems as the same strange things are happening again like when i caught the virus. Joel is your site under attack? Has anyone else experienced strange things visiting there?

[garyb]

hacked.
someone loves hacking that site....

[dante]

I get strange messages when i go to http://www.xited.org. The last one stated the content of this page is unsafe. There was weird text on top of the XITE-1 picture. Several times i went there there was some sort of pop-up box trying to get me to click it. I believe i contracted a virus from there a couple months ago but was not sure it came from there, now it seems as the same strange things are happening again like when i caught the virus. Joel is your site under attack? Has anyone else experienced strange things visiting there?

Yep one of my workstations got infected around that time a couple of months ago, which means network drop-outs/denial of service every 20 minutes or so for about 5 minutes. Luckily I have another laptop to work on until I get it re-formatted. Meanwhile if anyone knows a quicker fix Im interested...will save me some time.

[garyb]

a scan by a good antivirus and antispyware?

malwarebytes or avira and spybot.....

[Sounddesigner]

hacked.
someone loves hacking that site....

Ah, i figured something was wrong. Hopefully Joel can solve that problem or get better control. Might wanna host the site on a more secure place.

[siriusbliss]

Joel's been busy....

Greg

[dawman]

Yeah, he decided to put in a Moat around his castle in upper Wisconsin..

I was excited to see DJMicron now has an XITE-1 and he always made some really cool Modular stuff.
CAT Oscillators, etc.
I have Analog synths, but have always liked the sound that digital synths get when using Sync. It's more controllable and just sounds prettier without that massive gain that seems to occur using analog circuits, its like a double feedback loop or something.
But his CAT Oscillator is the very best Sync sound you can get in Scope or Native or hardware.

[dante]

a scan by a good antivirus and antispyware?

malwarebytes or avira and spybot.....

I got the IT department to check it out, they installed the latest corporate antivirus software, did scans, checked my network settings and it made no difference. I could try some others or registry repairers etc but Im more at a point of rebuild unless someone knows a specific cure. I noticed a dialog box came up on the laptop on the most recent xited crash about msxml4.dll so maybe thats a clue.

Anyway looks liked xited.org is back up again now so thats more important than my infected PC

[dawman]

It's a Virus by Access.
They invented the Virus and are pissed off about the Modular and especially the knobs on Solaris.

[Sounddesigner]

It's a Virus by Access.
They invented the Virus and are pissed off about the Modular and especially the knobs on Solaris.

I figured it was some type of 'Viral Marketing' .

[dante]

Can't say definitively but this is my number #1 suspect at the moment :

Suspected Trojan

trojan.JPG (40.41 KiB) Viewed 878 times

It's a Virus by Access.
They invented the Virus and are pissed off about the Modular and especially the knobs on Solaris.

In jest you may have accidentally stumbled on something close to the mark ... the virus name does actually contain the word 'ACCESS'

Investigation continues...

[garyb]

nothing to investigate, Joel has cleaned his site already.

[dante]

Thats server side, I'm looking at client side.

[garyb]

well, it looks like your antivirus caught it. mine did. it's a pretty typical trojan as far as i can see. it's downloaded with the webpage.

[dante]

Well, wierd thing is, my good machine reported it when copying the entire C drive from the infected machine, which has the same anti-virus but didnt pick it up.

[garyb]

it's just sitting in a temp file, so unless it was scanned it wouldn't be noticed. your system shouldn't have allowed it to actually do anything. my firewall and Avira definitely blocked it. anyway, that's why you want to do a virus and malware scan occasionally.