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March 6, 2013
12:12 pm

WallyBean

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Opened tabs of all the voting sites at the same time so I am not sure which one kicked it at me but I had one of those windows pop up that warns you have been infected, which is actually the virus and anything you click puts it on. Probably from an ad on one of the sites. Just a heads up to be on the lookout, I will wait a few days to vote so it can be found and cleaned up by whichever site is having the issue. Ran combofix to clean my pc and it gave me

Infected copy of c:\windows\system32\wshtcpip.dll was found and disinfected

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March 6, 2013
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WallyBean said
Opened tabs of all the voting sites at the same time so I am not sure which one kicked it at me but I had one of those windows pop up that warns you have been infected, which is actually the virus and anything you click puts it on. Probably from an ad on one of the sites. Just a heads up to be on the lookout, I will wait a few days to vote so it can be found and cleaned up by whichever site is having the issue. Ran combofix to clean my pc and it gave me

Infected copy of c:\windows\system32\wshtcpip.dll was found and disinfected

Has anyone else had this issue, or does anyone know which one? So we can remove the link to it on the site? Thanks wally for letting us know!

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March 6, 2013
1:42 pm

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I am going to go ahead and assume that it's an advertisement window on one of the sites, not the site itself. I vote as often as I can remember, and I haven't gotten any virus alerts or strange process trees running in my Task Manager (although I'm not sure if bad programs show up there, to be honest.)

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March 6, 2013
1:55 pm

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Yes, I got that notification from my antivirus finding that file and removing it... :/

March 20, 2013
11:32 pm

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Happened again, different virus this time but I believe it came from an ad that loads on the PMC site. No popup this time but pretty obvious something is wrong when it all starts running like crap suddenly. Sorry I didn't copy paste the virus cleaned up by combofix this time, assumed it was the same, another windows32 system file attacked.

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March 21, 2013
9:35 am

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WallyBean said
Happened again, different virus this time but I believe it came from an ad that loads on the PMC site. No popup this time but pretty obvious something is wrong when it all starts running like crap suddenly. Sorry I didn't copy paste the virus cleaned up by combofix this time, assumed it was the same, another windows32 system file attacked.

I am going to temporarily remove the link to PMC voting page from our dropdown, and notify PMC. Thanks for the heads up Wally.

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March 22, 2013
12:23 pm