HF Malware?

[Knotty]

Moderators, FYI: Browsing with Chrome I received the message below while accessing the forum:
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Warning: Something's Not Right Here!
www.hammockforums.net contains content from <removed URL>, a site known to distribute malware. Your computer might catch a virus if you visit this site.
Google has found malicious software may be installed onto your computer if you proceed. If you've visited this site in the past or you trust this site, it's possible that it has just recently been compromised by a hacker. You should not proceed, and perhaps try again tomorrow or go somewhere else.
We have already notified <removed URL> that we found malware on the site. For more about the problems found on <removed URL>, visit the Google Safe Browsing diagnostic page.

If you understand that visiting this site may harm your computer, proceed anyway.

[Ramblinrev]

I accessed the site with Chrome (not my usual choice) and got no warnings. I was not logged in when I arrived but I expected that.

[packeagle]

I also use chrome all the time and no warnings to date.

[Alamosa]

I use Chrome as well and haven't seen that message, but it could be related to a single thread or post.

[GrizzlyAdams]

Moderators, FYI: Browsing with Chrome I received the message below while accessing the forum:
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Warning: Something's Not Right Here!
www.hammockforums.net contains content from <removed URL>, a site known to distribute malware. Your computer might catch a virus if you visit this site.
Google has found malicious software may be installed onto your computer if you proceed. If you've visited this site in the past or you trust this site, it's possible that it has just recently been compromised by a hacker. You should not proceed, and perhaps try again tomorrow or go somewhere else.
We have already notified <removed URL> that we found malware on the site. For more about the problems found on <removed URL>, visit the Google Safe Browsing diagnostic page.

If you understand that visiting this site may harm your computer, proceed anyway.

being a cyberguy dedicated to truth, justice, the American way, and elimination of the furrin cyber-peril, this caught my eye.

There's cyber-nastiness that can be brought to an innocent site through the advertisements displayed, but HF is pretty thin on that. Hmm.

I _carefully_ (read sandboxed) had a poke at the greatpremiums site and got exactly the message you did. So it seems that what you see could be explained if you clicked through on something in a post that linked to that site.

exercised an excellent bit of google-foo that's handy to know, to use google to search HF, I did

<removed URL> site:hammockforums.net

and lo and behold it found a posting that embeds an image from that site, in a thread entitled "Cool Ideas!" Indeed, scrolling through that thread, when the browser got to the page containing the posting with this image, that bit of warning popped up.

The bad actor is post #15. You don't have to click on anything to tickle that site, you just have to visit the HF page that contains that posting.

[Hawk-eye]

being a cyberguy dedicated to truth, justice, the American way, and elimination of the furrin cyber-peril, this caught my eye...

Somebody was wearing their Deer Stalker Cap today!

... most excellent work sir!

[Ramblinrev]

wicked fast thread editing by the moderators! The aforementioned link has been removed.

[Pipsissewa]

and lo and behold it found a posting that embeds an image from that site, in a thread entitled "Cool Ideas!" Indeed, scrolling through that thread, when the browser got to the page containing the posting with this image, that bit of warning popped up.

The bad actor is post #15. You don't have to click on anything to tickle that site, you just have to visit the HF page that contains that posting.

Just to verify without visiting the thread myself (even though I'm on a Mac, I'm paranoid about malware!) the thread was called "cool ideas" ???? NOT "cool set up" CORRECT???? I looked in my browser history and I had read the "cool set up" thread, but not the "cool ideas" thread. Thanks for clarifying and thanks for looking into this, all.

[NCPatrick]

Thanks Grizz. Moved to the detention/detonation/discombulation/disassembly room for disarming...

[Les Rust]

Yet another case of HF looking out for the community. Thanks, grizz! My daughter has had malware a couple of times on her college computer--really frustrating!