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2011/Feb/16 - RS Wikia Full of Malware and Possible Viruses
Topic Started: Feb 16 2011, 02:47 AM (2,301 Views)
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I think the people only browsing that one page would of gotten it. So lots of people would of been still using Wiki and getting no virus threat popping up.

Is there any news or any update telling us they fixed it? Or do they even realize the virus was there in the first place? lol
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Samboza: I've posted notice on most of the fansites and clan forums.

Thanks to Navirio he logged on to Wikiapedia and notified an administrator about a possible "drive by java phishing". They replied back to let him know they've looked into it. Hopefully one day that website can have better security and learn not EVERYONE can be trusted to update pages with anything on them. There should ONLY be a limit to images or text -- that's ALL. Otherwise if they really need to upload java and anything above plain guides for Runescape they can restrict access to that ability for ONLY the owners of the RS Wikia (the rank of R S Wikia cc).

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Hello,

Thank you for informing us of this malware problem. We take malware
reports very seriously. We are currently investigating your report. If
you are still seeing this issue, please don't hesitate to get back in
contact with us.

Kind regards,

Angela

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Angela Beesley
Wikia.com, co-founder
Ask a question at http://forums.wikia.com

On 2011-02-17 04:07:03, thenavirio@x wrote:
> Navirio (thenavirio@gmail.com)
> http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/User:Navirio
> contacted Wikia about
> There is a java drive by on your zamarok arrow page!.
> There is a java drive by
> on your zamarok arrow page!
>
> this issue was reported by one of my
> members at http://justchill.findtalk.net/t279-rs-wikia-now-offering-
> malware-and-keyloggers
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Posted Image ChristaPHCE
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I've had a similar experience when looking at rs's site it happened last night when I had just logged in to look at my high score, so I immediatly changed my password after that. I think it might be an advertiser on rs's site that somehow takes over when you do things on rs I think it's a virus and I had the same thing happen over a year ago. I used a spyware program to eriadicate it, and I hadn't had problems with it until recently but I knew to close it up as fast as I could. All I can say is virus programs don't show up in your browser. Be careful everyone take care.
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Jesus, RuneScape makes me too scared to lose my account nowadays.
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Posted Image Rach
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Alright guys, I got yet another virus and I believe it to be from rs wiki again, be careful. I had to do a system restore back to the last update on my computer
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Posted Image Bridled Ruin
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Lols Rune Wikia has never done anything to my computer, I'll check it out again
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Birdled Ruin: It has to do with whoever last updated the page.

This is why you can't trust ANY Wikia since anyone can edit a page without an account and there's no way to track the IP that uploaded the keylogger and malware because by the time they track the last edit IP the user can easily change his/her IP.
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I know the main wikia has protections against the uploading of loggers and malware viruses...You'd they make it so that when editing a wiki all you can do is change text or add pictures of a certain "safe" format, so large file types usually containing viruses can't be uploaded.
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If u use FireFox its good to get no script. It's helpful in keeping unwanted things from running on if comp

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