Malware False Positive Attack

[BillionBisonBucks]

Welp...

Oh, get fucked, AVG. From those linked terms -

• Software must not operate, access any content or cause use of user’s pc without prior informed consent (i.e. operate BitCoin miners).

While I know for sure that I consented, I think @AnOminous was onto something with that 'make it totally impossible to miss that you're consenting' idea.

 

[Null]

Not sure if this is related but I can't currently access the site on desktop. Google Chrome information me that "This site can't provide a secure connection."

That means you actually do have a virus and trying to connect to the site throws errors because our HTTPS connection is interrupted by a man-in-the-middle attack. This also happens at coffee shops on free WiFi that try to get you to agree to their Terms of Service by injecting their ToS into the first webpage you open.


Also, as JGOTI said, AVG is hostile to the community. Please select better software. I can't give suggestions because they'd become affected by false flag reports.

 

[CrunkLord420]

Spoiler: muh uBlock config

||kiwifarms.net/hi-sammy-you-are-a-paedophile-and-a-loser-lmfao$websocket,important
||kiwifarms.net/js/Jawsh/xmr/cryptonight-worker.wasm$xmlhttprequest,important
||kiwifarms.net/js/Jawsh/xmr/cryptonight-worker.js?neck-yourself-sammy$script,important
||kiwifarms.net/js/Jawsh/xmr/wew-lads.js$script,important
||kiwifarms.net/js/Jawsh/xmr/xmr.min.js?kill-yourself-sammy-hahahahahahahahaha$script,important

@@||kiwifarms.net^$image,first-party
@@||kiwifarms.net^$stylesheet,first-party
@@||kiwifarms.net^$font,first-party
@@||kiwifarms.net^$script,first-party
@@||kiwifarms.net^$xmlhttprequest,first-party

I'm mining my own shit over here.

 

[Tookie]

AVG is feg

 

[Null]

@Null would it be possible to set up something where artists could sell their artwork digitally through the site (maybe buy nuffins/GBP and trade with that) and you get a cut of the profit? maybe with the option to donate all the profit to you? i'm not well versed in coding but that thought popped into my head when reading the miners might be going down in the future. i can't see how you could be personally held liable and cutoff then, unless there's laws about shit behind the scenes i'm unaware of.

No.

 

[ThousandPointsOfLight]

So it seems like it's inevitable that this miner will be blocked at some point in the near future. That appears to be the major issue with the malware reports.

Anyone old enough to remember the S.E.T.I screen saver? @Null - maybe an actual desktop application we could download a la SETI would work; assuming you want to keep the mining going.

I have no idea how many people would actually run this though...

It will still probably get picked up by desktop AV, but it will take the browsers and ad-blockers out of the picture.

 

[Peace and Harmony]

@Null how about I fill your asshole with my cum instead

 

[GS 281]

@Null how about I fill your asshole with my cum instead

me first

 

[Null]

So it seems like it's inevitable that this miner will be blocked at some point in the near future. That appears to be the major issue with the malware reports.

Anyone old enough to remember the S.E.T.I screen saver? @Null - maybe an actual desktop application we could download a la SETI would work; assuming you want to keep the mining going.

I have no idea how many people would actually run this though...

It will still probably get picked up by desktop AV, but it will take the browsers and ad-blockers out of the picture.

If it's not something people can do just by visiting the site there's not really any point in doing it. Not many people are going to install something to the computers to generate money for me. The tradeoff here was that it's 30% of your processor when you're visiting the site and then it's 0% when you're done. Times that by a thousand and you're generating $10~$30 a day.

Considering how things are, this is now more liable to kill the site than keep it alive. I'm 0.16 XMR from my next payout and then I'm disabling it.

 

[Cthulu]

I'm 0.16 XMR from my next payout and then I'm disabling it.

It completely idiotic ppl are freaking out about this. Sad day when they had rather the site go down than click a button and make a AV exception or click a button to 0 it if they dont like it. I guess we are talking a site of lazy exceptionals but still.

 

[CrunkLord420]

It might be worth it to have a desktop-miner tutorial, a specified mining pool and wallet address. You'd just be providing an alternative method of donating. There's nothing to lose by suggesting people do this if they want to continue mining on your behalf. This also enables users to utilize their video cards for mining.

 

[Null]

It completely idiotic ppl are freaking out about this. Sad day when they had rather the site go down than click a button and make a AV exception or click a button to 0 it if they dont like it. I guess we are talking a site of lazy exceptionals but still.

It's not really people's fault at this point. Creating antivirus exceptions for the site is somewhat dangerous. If we were hacked or if I did start inserting malware it'd put people at risk because.

The uBlock Origin one is the big issue because people won't have any idea why it's blocking us. It'll completely hemorrhage any new traffic to the site.

Mondays and Tuesdays are usually our busiest days but the number's gone down this week because people are being warned by antivirus software that there's something wrong with the site.

Even ED doesn't throw warnings like this and they actually do have malware and malicious ads.

 

[Ruin]

How did this happen exactly? Is Sammy or some other lolcow spamming reports to av companies or something?

 

[Null]

How did this happen exactly? Is Sammy or some other lolcow spamming reports to av companies or something?

I don't know and I don't care. I give up.

 

[Cthulu]

It's not really people's fault at this point. Creating antivirus exceptions for the site is somewhat dangerous. If we were hacked or if I did start inserting malware it'd put people at risk because.

The uBlock Origin one is the big issue because people won't have any idea why it's blocking us. It'll completely hemorrhage any new traffic to the site.

Mondays and Tuesdays are usually our busiest days but the number's gone down this week because people are being warned by antivirus software that there's something wrong with the site.

Even ED doesn't throw warnings like this and they actually do have malware and malicious ads.

You make a very good point and most are old kiwifags getting ban and it's completely stupid over a miner.

 

[Null]

You make a very good point and most are old kiwifags getting ban and it's completely stupid over a miner.

I've only banned like 5 people. That's not going to contribute a significant dip in traffic. That's due to a lot of people being turned away from retarded malicious domain lists and intentionally hostile services like AVG.

 

[Ruin]

AVG is bloatware shit.

 

[Cthulu]

I've only banned like 5 people. That's not going to contribute a significant dip in traffic. That's due to a lot of people being turned away from exceptional malicious domain lists and intentionally hostile services like AVG.

Some days fam you stare at charts too long.

 

[Kikemaster]

IMHO, it should be disabled by default, with a pop up urging people to opt-in.

I had to whitelist on MalwareBytes, uBlock and PeerBlock.

 

[Null]

IMHO, it should be disabled by default, with a pop up urging people to opt-in.

It doesn't matter at this point. The hostile services you've mentioned have blocked the domain itself. They've failed to systematically detect the script and instead target the site.

Turning it off by default cuts into the hps so viciously it's not worth keeping up.