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Offline Axiom

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Malware Warning Picked up on Official Sims 3 Forum
« on: September 13, 2012, 05:24:38 PM »
I just got this warning when trying to access the official Sims 3 forum:

Just for your information. Please move this topic if you feel its necessary.
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Re: Malware Warning Picked up on Official Sims 3 Forum
« Reply #1 on: September 14, 2012, 01:28:59 PM »
Axiom,

I, for one, appreciated the warning.  It made me do a malware scan and, even though I have not been to the official Sim 3 site recently.  I found several new intrusions.  I must remember to scan more often.
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Re: Malware Warning Picked up on Official Sims 3 Forum
« Reply #2 on: September 14, 2012, 04:30:15 PM »
PlanetSmilies? So maybe all it was was that one of the posts made by a member over there at the forums contained a smiley from that place.
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Re: Malware Warning Picked up on Official Sims 3 Forum
« Reply #3 on: September 14, 2012, 05:04:17 PM »
I scan with malwarebytes every day and have not got anything. Thank you though.
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Re: Malware Warning Picked up on Official Sims 3 Forum
« Reply #4 on: September 14, 2012, 05:09:00 PM »
Quote from: xFezIsAFreakx on September 14, 2012, 04:30:15 PM
PlanetSmilies? So maybe all it was was that one of the posts made by a member over there at the forums contained a smiley from that place.

Yes, that's what it is. There is reports about it on several forums and from what I've read you only get the warning message if you use Google Chrome. Several forums are banning links to PlanetSmilies to prevent emot icons from there from being used on their forums.

Edit: And it's also being recomended that you might want to block images from PlanetSmilies.net in your browser from loading as a precaution.
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Re: Malware Warning Picked up on Official Sims 3 Forum
« Reply #5 on: September 14, 2012, 10:24:19 PM »
Quote from: grimsoul on September 14, 2012, 05:09:00 PM
Yes, that's what it is. There is reports about it on several forums and from what I've read you only get the warning message if you use Google Chrome. Several forums are banning links to PlanetSmilies to prevent emot icons from there from being used on their forums.

Edit: And it's also being recomended that you might want to block images from PlanetSmilies.net in your browser from loading as a precaution.
There appears to be no way to do this on firefox? I do have adblock plus.
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Re: Malware Warning Picked up on Official Sims 3 Forum
« Reply #6 on: September 14, 2012, 11:40:06 PM »
Quote from: SpiritedTreasure on September 14, 2012, 10:24:19 PM
There appears to be no way to do this on firefox? I do have adblock plus.

In Firefox go to Options, Content Tab and across from Load Images Automatically click on the Exceptions button and in the address bar put in PlanetSmilies.net and click Block.

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Re: Malware Warning Picked up on Official Sims 3 Forum
« Reply #7 on: September 14, 2012, 11:54:22 PM »
Done and thank you.  :) But that won't block the entire site will it? Malware isn't stored in images is it?
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Re: Malware Warning Picked up on Official Sims 3 Forum
« Reply #8 on: September 15, 2012, 12:06:25 AM »
From what I've been reading it's coming with the images. But I haven't read of anyone getting malware just the users of Google Chrome getting the warning messages when someone makes a post using emot icons from planetsmilies. So I'm not really sure.
If you want to read up on what people are saying just do a google search for planetsmilies malware. You get list of several forum post talking about it.
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Re: Malware Warning Picked up on Official Sims 3 Forum
« Reply #9 on: September 15, 2012, 08:48:14 AM »
Thank you  :)
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Re: Malware Warning Picked up on Official Sims 3 Forum
« Reply #10 on: September 15, 2012, 03:00:10 PM »
What about blocking images with Chrome?
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Re: Malware Warning Picked up on Official Sims 3 Forum
« Reply #11 on: September 15, 2012, 03:26:35 PM »
Quote from: Axiom on September 15, 2012, 03:00:10 PM
What about blocking images with Chrome?

Instructions for Chrome can be found here.
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Re: Malware Warning Picked up on Official Sims 3 Forum
« Reply #12 on: September 15, 2012, 03:39:32 PM »
I had EA ring me and informed them of the smileys and warning .
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