Problem when I went into User Tip Here

I'll check the two User Tips in question, it wouldn't be the first time one of my links was taken hostage by the site being hijacked or domain changed ownership.

Sorry for any inconvenience, I'll report back my findings as soon as I can. 🙂

Restart your Mac, (do not check the "Reopen Windows checkbox).

Start Safari and go to Preferences>Privacy and Remove all Website Data, then go to the extensions page and make sure you recognize everything that is installed there.

It is unlikely that any harm has come to your Mac.

IpadinParadise wrote:

I was just now browsing thru the User Tips on this site. Went into "Harden Your Mac Against Malware". Was reading thru the spot where it talked about online banking and only do that with funds you could afford to lose. There was a link to click, I thought for more information. I dont normally go around clicking things on the internet but I sure thought I was safe here. Anyway, I had a screen that said something about german banking and a little popup window that said it was malicious malware and could harm my computer. Then I could not get out of it, I had to force quit. I did and yet it came right back up. The final time I was finally able to get the force quit to take.

I visitd the site in Safari and got this, it this what you saw?

Even if you saw something other than this and you Force Quit the browser, then you did the right thing. 🙂

Read a report from Cisco yesterday that stated malicious advertising and browser iFrame attacks are the two largest malware attack vectors for computer users.

Also supposedly there is a attack going on via the Facebook link in the popups.

I'll keep a eye this site and if I see anything suspicious I'll delete the link, quote the article and notify the website.

Perhaps they caught it now and it's fixed.

Thanks 🙂

ds store, greetings: I got that display via Firefox. When I went in there a second time it was gone. I deleted cookies and the third time it was there.

Ciao.

IpadinParadise wrote:

I thought this site liked to help new mac users but I seem to have a hard time getting my questions answered. Once they slip to the second page, they are never answered.

The people here answering questions are only other Mac users volunteering their time to do so, we have no set hours or timetable.

The majority are from the United States, so most are online at daylight hours there.

Some of us only work certian forums and stay out of others.

Another Level 6+ alerted me of your post in the special Lounge area where we frequent.

I'll go check the other User Tip in question. 🙂

OGELTHORPE wrote:

ds store, greetings: I got that display via Firefox. When I went in there a second time it was gone. I deleted cookies and the third time it was there.

Ciao.

It's just a site popup, clicking the X to close causes no download to occur or request for a Admin password to install anything.

Far as I can tell it's harmless. But the OP saw something else so I'll keep a eye on it. 🙂

The external links for the User Tip: 10,001 Mac Questions seem to fine, I detect no malicious behavior.

Perhaps if you could be more specific?

Thanks 🙂

IpadinParadise wrote:

Then in the middle of the screen there was a box that said “Malware Warning, this site will harm your computer". But the screen was frozen and wouldnt close. I did shut down, power up after I force quit. I cleared History too, dont know if that helped anything.

Well click on it again, does the same thing happen again?

http://www.thelocal.de/national/20120425-42161.html

Two of us report this site as exactly as shown, it's the same on my Windows and Linux vm's too. so that's 4 machines.

If it only occurs on your machine, perhaps there is something wrong with it.

Did you or someone else install something?

Perhaps you need to have someone there take a look at the machine, Apple gives 3 months of free support for new hardware purchases, perhaps you should get some one on one appointment time?

It's in the preferences, two tabs to the riight of the Security Tab (where you were clearing the website data)

If you are concerned about malware, don't install Flash, or Java.

Do you mean ClickToFlash for the plugin?

If you are seeing something different for a particular link than everyone else, you are probably victim to some kind of redirecting attack. There are a variety of ways this could happen... see:

Eliminating browser redirects and advertisements

Regarding ClickToPlugin, that is not at all malicious. It can be found here:

http://hoyois.github.com/safariextensions/clicktoplugin/