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Message started by Lukejw20 on Jul 12th, 2020 at 12:10am

Title: Trojan
Post by Lukejw20 on Jul 12th, 2020 at 12:10am
Every time I come to this website, I get a notification that a trojan has been blocked, which leads me to believe that there is a trojan hiding on your websites. Can you investigate it so I can come here without having to use anti-virus? This might be affecting others too.

Title: Re: Trojan
Post by Lukejw20 on Jul 12th, 2020 at 12:12am
I forgot to include the name of the trojan that is trying to get onto my device. It's called Trojan:Win32/Wacatac and whenever I come here (usually to download the latest 767 update) it tries to infiltrate my system

Title: Re: Trojan
Post by Captain Sim on Jul 13th, 2020 at 8:23am

Lukejw20 wrote on Jul 12th, 2020 at 12:10am:
Every time I come to this website I get a notification

Web site? May we see a screenshot of that notification on our web site pls? Run just a browser, no other apps.

As for the product "trojans": https://www.captainsim.org/forum/csf.pl?num=1489697628

Title: Re: Trojan
Post by Lukejw20 on Jul 18th, 2020 at 12:54am
Before I downloaded malwarebytes anti-virus, my laptop got infected with it after I came here, and that was on July 4. The IP address of the "trojan" is 209.159.155.201, which is in Newfoundland and Labrador. I have McAfee, but haven't activated it yet, but I downloaded Malwarebytes as a quick fix after I got infected, and it removed it swiftly. My trial expires tomorrow, and I'm admittedly a bit frightened to come here after the expiration. If you could get back to me before midnight eastern time, that would be great and appreciated :)

Title: Re: Trojan
Post by Lukejw20 on Jul 18th, 2020 at 1:00am
Here is the screenshot of the notification I am getting
Screenshot__12_.png ( 36 KB | 73 Downloads )

Title: Re: Trojan
Post by Captain Sim on Jul 18th, 2020 at 7:48am
Thanks.
But where's the trojan? chrome.exe? That's not us)

Overal looks like typical AV B$ (fishing for subscription $)

Title: Re: Trojan
Post by Sam K on Jul 18th, 2020 at 11:41am
I pay for Malwarebytes and I get this error message with the website being a Trojan as well. I am using the latest version of Chrome.exe. Additionally, I have tested in internet explorer and also Microsoft edge, all providing errors within the browsers.

I have tested this with both Malwarebytes and Windows Defender disabled, all browsers stated above still do not load. Tested both at work and at home.

Title: Re: Trojan
Post by Captain Sim on Jul 18th, 2020 at 12:34pm
This web site is 100% clean.
Anything else?


Title: Re: Trojan
Post by Sam K on Jul 18th, 2020 at 12:50pm
It would be interesting to know why then that the website has the connection errors and Trojan reports that myself and some users have reported.
We don't want to go against you Captain Sim, more so we would like to resolve this issue and help you out of we can.
Does anyone else have any ideas as to why the site might be presenting this? I'm sure there are no Trojans and these are false positives, but it would be great to resolve nonetheless.

Title: Re: Trojan
Post by Markoz on Jul 18th, 2020 at 4:26pm
I use Mozilla Firefox (v78.0.2), and I tested Microsoft Edge (v83.0.478.64) as well, and I do not get any warnings about a trojan when I go to www.captainsim.com, or the forum (www.captainsim.org/forum/csf.pl)

Note. I don't like Chrome, so it's not installed on my PC, or laptop.

Title: Re: Trojan
Post by Ryz on Jul 30th, 2020 at 1:06am
I'm getting this issue on Firefox now. I don't distrust the site. I wasn't when this was first posted but I am now. I'm thinking its an issue with Malwarebytes.

Title: Re: Trojan
Post by Ryz on Jul 30th, 2020 at 1:08am
Also forgot to say, I can't even load captainsim.com. Takes me to an error page.

That's the error page.
cserror.png ( 17 KB | 69 Downloads )

Title: Re: Trojan
Post by Ryz on Jul 30th, 2020 at 1:17am
So the problem with the main website was caused my Malwarebytes. Something weird is going on. Sorry for the triple post but the edit feature was removed so don't have a choice for updates.

Title: Re: Trojan
Post by Markoz on Jul 30th, 2020 at 2:19am
Very wierd as I'm not having any problems with www.captainsim.com at all.

I wonder what would happen if you cleared all the cookies and site data from the website (attached image shows where to do this in Firefox (v79.0)).
clear_cookies_data.jpg ( 48 KB | 71 Downloads )

Title: Re: Trojan
Post by Captain Sim on Jul 30th, 2020 at 12:29pm

Ryz wrote on Jul 30th, 2020 at 1:17am:
Something weird is going on.

I wouldn't call it weird, it's very typical: an AV pretends it worth the subscription fee.

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