Is Aminet OK/infected?

[desiv]

I couldn't download anything from there from my Amiga using either iBrowse or AWeb.

I poked my laptop at it, and Avast AV said it stopped a bad program....
I couldn't download from there either.
(Every thing I tried to DL actually downloads a script that's encoded, that sounds bad...)

(Note: don't go running there if you have Windows just to see if it's safe!  :-)

desiv

[desiv]

As a side, I also ran a "full scan" on my machine to be safe.  It found 1 instance of the file on my hard disk (not running, but waiting to be called I'm sure) and recommended a "boot scan" which I did.

The boot scan found a few more waiting to be called..

If  you went there with a Windows machine, even tho your AV caught it, I'd recommend a full scan.
I'll use another product's scan after this to be sure...

desiv
(Didn't I say NOT to go there if you have Windows?  It's bad enough I did..  And it's bad because I've seen encoded javascript "bad programs" before.  Not enough to recognize them, but enough to know there probably shouldn't have been one on Aminet..)

[desiv]

Now it appears that Amibay.com has been hit, but the code injection was done poorly, so the whole site is broke and just throws a php cookie/session error.

I can still get to Amibay, although there were people there saying they were getting virus alerts..
I'm using Linux at the moment..  :razz:
(No, I'm not saying there are no Linux baddies out there...)

Yeah, several people on Amibay are having problems with the main page if they are using Windows (not sure which versions), but several others using Linux aren't having issues..

desiv

[desiv]

..surely they must have had some form of protection?

Haven't you had that discussion yet,, where you learned that no protection is 100% effective??  :laugh1:

desiv