Autopia Attacked my Computer???

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I was talking with my parents tonight and somehow the subject of clearcoat failure came up. This reminded me of an amazing turn-around somebody did on Autopia and even though I no longer post there, I wanted to at least show them the write-up. I typed in the URL and got this!!

Anybody else get this too? I'm running Mozilla, just for the record.
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I just got a bit of malware from going to that site last week. It took me sometime to figure out how it got there and to get it off.
 
OCD...I got the same message yesterday.

What is the current listing status for autopia.org?

Site is listed as suspicious - visiting this web site may harm your computer.

Part of this site was listed for suspicious activity 3 time(s) over the past 90 days.

What happened when Google visited this site?

Of the 484 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 131 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 2010-08-30, and the last time suspicious content was found on this site was on 2010-08-30.

Malicious software includes 7 scripting exploit(s), 7 trojan(s), 5 exploit(s). Successful infection resulted in an average of 3 new process(es) on the target machine.

Malicious software is hosted on 7 domain(s), including plotecco.co.cc/, autourl.in/, browserservices.in/.

1 domain(s) appear to be functioning as intermediaries for distributing malware to visitors of this site, including plotecco.co.cc/.

This site was hosted on 2 network(s) including AS31815 (MEDIATEMPLE), AS26496 (PAH).

Has this site acted as an intermediary resulting in further distribution of malware?

Over the past 90 days, autopia.org appeared to function as an intermediary for the infection of 1 site(s) including stumbleupon.com/.

Has this site hosted malware?

No, this site has not hosted malicious software over the past 90 days.

How did this happen?

In some cases, third parties can add malicious code to legitimate sites, which would cause us to show the warning message.


I hope the admins get this fixed ASAP.
 
I have no issue going there on my MAC but my PC will not open page as the AVG and Google catch it prior to opening.

There must be a problem with the site, to bad becasue there is alot of good info and recources over there. That and DC are the only site I cruze for detailing.
 
I got one of those fake virus companies software downloaded which says your computer is full of viruses and pay to get them deleted, when in fact the virus is their tool. The one I had was called "Security Tool".
 
Stephan said:
I got one of those fake virus companies software downloaded which says your computer is full of viruses and pay to get them deleted, when in fact the virus is their tool. The one I had was called "Security Tool".
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I got the same problem I did not have anything to remove spyware and when you have one of those check your computer it will install crap on your hard drive.
My computer is a mess warning boxes pop up all the time.
Mine came preinstalled so I think I will buy a new operating system and start from scratch.
 
Interesting, I visited the site last night and sure enough before I even opened a thread, McAfee pop up appeared notifiying me of a Trojan. Had to shut everything down and re-boot. Thus far I have not seen any lingering problems from the occurence, but I won't be visiting again any time soon.
 
Mr. Clean said:
Interesting, I visited the site last night and sure enough before I even opened a thread, McAfee pop up appeared notifiying me of a Trojan. Had to shut everything down and re-boot. Thus far I have not seen any lingering problems from the occurence, but I won't be visiting again any time soon.
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I unfortuately did it on my work computer. Luckily I knew the IT guy and he helped me out as I do not have admin permissions and for some reason our firewall never caught it.
 
Google advised me not to visit the site when I was doing some searching the other day, too.

Anyone here had the guts to try visiting the site from a mac? I'm on my MacBook but I don't want to risk it even though OSX is fairly safe from malware/viruses....
 
I got mine up and running again.
I never did like my HP version of windows so I picked up a new OS formatted the hard drive to be sure it was clean and installed the new OS.
 
I read a post on AG forum where someone said that Autopia had suffered some kind of virus & hopefully it will get cleared up soon.

I hope whatever the issue is it will be resolved soon. I got the same wth reaction when I tried to go there yesterday
 
That explains a lot, I thought that it was a site my daughter was on. Here is a screen shot of what Norton found on mine.
 

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Shiny Lil Detlr said:
Anyone here had the guts to try visiting the site from a mac? I'm on my MacBook but I don't want to risk it even though OSX is fairly safe from malware/viruses....
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I usually will not comment on things like this, but have you not read the post earlier in the day about using a MAC?
 
I check in on Autopia from time to time, and that visit last week cost me $85 to have the virus removed !!! Its a shame, I was a huge fan of Autopia from 2001 up until a few years ago when DavidB was manning the ship. I am sure that this malicious act will cost the sites owner(s) with a substancial drop in membership.
 
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