Has Chess.com given anyone else a virus?

I have played on two different computers and both have atracted small virus' after I play. Has this happened to anyone else? Any advice?

Thanks

~leabilly

That would not be from Chess.com, I would advise that you set up a firewall and run virus scans on both of your computers.

They have only showed up after a play, so I'm not sure what else it could be. Neither are my computers anyway so I can't.

Well, I'm not sure what you mean by a "small virus". There are almost infinite ways you can get a virus or malware. Possibly from Chess.com, but also possibly from almost any other web site. (Or even your router - Like I said, it's almost infinite.) Unless you click on a link and instantly get a popup box that you recognize as a virus, you probably have no idea when or where you got it.

Set up a firewall? If you're running Windows 7 or 8, you already have one running. Running virus scans from an antivirus program is no guarantee that it will find the malware or be able to remove it. You might have to try stronger measures, depending on how bad the malware is.

And depending only on a firewall and an antivirus package to keep out the malware no longer works these days. You have to take other measures to keep that stuff out of your PC.

Yeah, and you can have a virus / malware for a long time before you notice it.  Playing a game on chess.com then your computer acting up is like feeling sick while drivng down Washington street. and then saying you got the flu from Washington street. 

             http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000333205&play=1

I'm not sure what you're doing there, Ronald. Is CNBC going to give us some good advice, or are they going to give us malware when we view the vid?

Lol yeah. Not gonna click on it..

I'm pretty sure that both are running at least Windows 7. One thing I never mentioned is that on my slow-laptop (and I'm not blaming it on that) when I was trying to play, ads popped up and it started going to other tabs... so I'm not sure what to say about that. I know those weren't virus' because I am not a paying member, so I know ads will pop up. This ad problem only pops up on my laptop, so any advice?

Thanks

~leabilly

There's a million things you could do, but maybe just start by installing Adblock Plus and see if your problems go away. Some people think that installing an adblocker isn't cricket because you're depriving the site of ad revenue. However, my position is that if the site can't guarantee that its ad servers won't be hacked again (and the site can't), then I'm going to do whatever is necessary to prevent my PC from getting malware.

And I guess it couldn't hurt to run a virus scan with your antivirus program, and download Malwarebytes and run that.

http://www.malwarebytes.org/

            That link explains about a virus that was recently discovered by Symantec. Its been hiding in people's system for 6 yrs.  But you can continue to be ignorant, that's fine.

When people post a link, it's good to have a bit of explanation to go with the link...so that you at least have an idea of what the link is about before you click on it. I can't tell you how many times I've clicked on a video link that ended up being some super-lame vid...a complete waste of my time.

Now that I know the topic of the link, I'll view it. Thanks.

            It was all over the news yesterday. I sent the link to Erik because he "doesn't get around much any more"

I'll do a little reading on the Regin malware, but I'm guessing it's in the class of malvertising. It's another good reason to run NoScript and not allow Flash Player to be activated by default.

Edit - Apparently it's a backdoor Trojan spyware that, at least so far, hasn't even touched the U.S.

Edit 2 - Here's a Kaspersky white paper on Regin. Another reason to keep your browser plugins updated to minimize zero-day exploits (and have you dumped Java yet?) and to not surf the web in administrator mode.

https://securelist.com/files/2014/11/Kaspersky_Lab_whitepaper_Regin_platform_eng.pdf

More linfo from Ars Technica and Symantec, along with a Symantec white paper:

http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/11/highly-advanced-backdoor-trojan-cased-high-profile-targets-for-years/

http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/regin-top-tier-espionage-tool-enables-stealthy-surveillance

http://www.symantec.com/content/en/us/enterprise/media/security_response/whitepapers/regin-analysis.pdf

Thanks for your help everyone and Ronald, I will view the link. From my question above, has anyone ever experienced a strange amount of ads?

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Thanks for all the help, but unfortanetly I cannot download anything because neither are my pc's (except for my laptop, but it's to slow to run anything, being a Dell Latitude 120L).

Thanks

~leabilly

Viruses injection are actually very healthy they actually protect us from the influenza or common cold. Be sure to have a virus protection on your whatever medium, I have Kapersky and a few more are also excellent such as Bit defender, Norton etc buy a suite and not a single virus protection.

I buy Kapersky and have since1007 as it is excellent and once a year at Future Shop around August it sells for$30 rather than $100

Sounds like you need a college degree to even spell half the computer terms, let alone operate the thing.

No kidding.

A virus will normally come in via an advert. Use Adblock on your PC.

I have a virus that always opens chess.com and I can't get rid of it. ;)