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Virus on NS Store?

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Muhammad
Posts: 420 - Karma: 23

My anti-virus program just discovered and deleted its first trojan only seconds after I navigated to the NS Store.  Has this happened to anybody else, or is it an isolated incident?

Nov 28 2010 11:32AM
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Jonny7
Posts: 3309 - Karma: 76
yup it has happened to a few of us
Nov 28 2010 11:37AM
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Squidles
Posts: 225 - Karma: 98
Must.. not... feed...
Nov 28 2010 11:37AM
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Skittle.
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Nov 28 2010 11:39AM
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Skittle.
Posts: 2537 - Karma: 718
shit
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Nov 28 2010 11:40AM
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I_Am_Mod
Posts: 13214 - Karma: 3,753
my antivirus asked me if i wanted to proceed to this web-addres ....

i didn't ...
Nov 28 2010 11:44AM
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matt.s
Posts: 2502 - Karma: 93
site discussion?


and no, i have a mac.
Nov 28 2010 11:45AM
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maximiliaan
Posts: 7711 - Karma: 2,857
OH MY GOSH! IM IN YOUR UNDERTEXT/UNDERWRITING/TEXTUNDERYOURPOSTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nov 28 2010 12:08PM
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Evilchris
Posts: 2090 - Karma: 44
yeah ive gotten warnings when i try to go to the NS store from google chrome
Nov 28 2010 12:13PM
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r0dubs
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Nov 28 2010 12:15PM
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Emma_Watson
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Nov 28 2010 2:00PM
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MCIRONCOCK
Posts: 3094 - Karma: 30
Ok. Which person at NS headquarters was watching porn on a questionable website? Fess up.
Nov 28 2010 2:41PM
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.frenchy
Posts: 18221 - Karma: 12,323

WOW.

I just went to see what's up in the NS store and my norton antivirus was all like "WOAH BRO GET OUTTA THE NS STORE !!!"

Nov 28 2010 3:34PM
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stickerman
Posts: 2043 - Karma: 147
My avg claims that there is a virus in the store. Fuuuuuuuuuuu
Nov 28 2010 4:37PM
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.josh.
Posts: 600 - Karma: 18
THIS IS WHAT IT WAS!!!!
yesterday i went on the ns store and then my computer was ddown all day after that with some stupid trojan virus that kept trying to tell me i had no hard drive. at all.

sort it aaatt.
Nov 28 2010 5:05PM
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gwhitey
Posts: 2249 - Karma: 312
a threat was detected in the STORE
Nov 28 2010 5:12PM
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Blurst
Posts: 13577 - Karma: 10,169
The STORE fucked my computer! NS you owe me a new computer!
Nov 28 2010 5:40PM
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wolverinedawg24
Posts: 18 - Karma: 10

My computer just detected a threat when I went to the store. 

Nov 28 2010 5:43PM
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A.Eberhard
Posts: 4426 - Karma: 415
Yeah when I went to it got a huge warning not to continue...
Nov 28 2010 6:36PM
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owned
Posts: 345 - Karma: 10
mac's get viruses too. just cuz there aren't as many, doesn't mean they don't exist.
Nov 28 2010 6:52PM
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Schlop
Posts: 3640 - Karma: 24
after this thread I wanna go to the store to check itout, but shit everyone's freaking out
Nov 28 2010 11:43PM
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rudager
Posts: 11335 - Karma: 4,624
I bought some stickers last night. I proceeded with caution.
Have no problems or anything detected.
Nov 29 2010 9:02PM
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JStrathern
Posts: 8747 - Karma: 1,536
My AVG was like WHOA BRO BETTER BACK THE FUCK OUT. But I'm actually serious and my browser like flashes red.. not going in the store for a while.
Nov 29 2010 9:07PM
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Silence
Posts: 16030 - Karma: 150
I get it too
It's being looked into - thanks

Probably just a harmless spork
Nov 30 2010 2:30AM
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MacMahoooon
Posts: 9009 - Karma: 3,305
We are looking into this warning, but can tell you shopping the store will not give you a virus. Seems one of the plug ins used in the store software comes from a site which in turn was flagged. We're trying to get that warning removed ASAP in advance of a few new products dropping
Nov 30 2010 9:13AM
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soulskier
Posts: 17806 - Karma: 3,841
if it makes anyone feel better, i ordered some product after the warning and everything arrived and my bank account is intact
Dec 1 2010 12:51AM
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TH3D0P3B0Y
Posts: 65 - Karma: 10
Nope and i gotta dell which sucks
Dec 1 2010 11:21AM
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A.Eberhard
Posts: 4426 - Karma: 415
I don't get a big warning on my browser anymore when I got, but I still got a message from my anti virus software saying the something was downloading without my permission and it was stopped.
Dec 2 2010 6:01PM
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.josh.
Posts: 600 - Karma: 18
chrome just warned me that there was some mad virus in there. puh-lease get it out ..
Dec 4 2010 9:24AM
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.frenchy
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I just went in the store to see if there is anything new, and i got a big warning again :(
Dec 4 2010 10:01AM
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MacMahoooon
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We've tracked this down and putting a fix in place. It shouldn't have directly affected anyone using the store and you are safe to shop again. May take a day or 2 for the warning sites to clear it from their lists

Sorry about that
Dec 6 2010 11:28AM
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Jonny7
Posts: 3309 - Karma: 76
My spybot and AVG both went nuts shopping the store and now I have bunch of viruses and some shit called HDD Defragmenter installed itself WTF
Dec 6 2010 9:37PM
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.frenchy
Posts: 18221 - Karma: 12,323
Yep. my cmputer froze and all these weird pop-up started...Popping up.. lol
Dec 6 2010 9:59PM
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Jonny7
Posts: 3309 - Karma: 76
at least spybot was able to fix things, but this is lame I can't even buy anything from NS :(
Dec 6 2010 10:15PM
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95959
Posts: 2765 - Karma: 377
Yeah Macs get viruses, just like how white people get Sickle Cell Anemia....
Dec 6 2010 11:54PM
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84891jnf92048
Posts: 11552 - Karma: 2,550
inb4 your mac gets a virus and you get sickle cell anemia.
Dec 7 2010 7:02AM
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JStrathern
Posts: 8747 - Karma: 1,536
hahahah sigged
Dec 7 2010 9:07AM
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MacMahoooon
Posts: 9009 - Karma: 3,305
There was apparently one more element hanging around. This time its actually fixed and you are good to go
Dec 7 2010 10:23AM
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JPFortier
Posts: 278 - Karma: 527
For those who got the HDD Scan, I got it too.
I Used this method : http://deletemalware.blogspot.com/2010/12/how-to-remove-hdd-scan-removal-guide.html

It's now removed from the store.
Sorry about everything.
Dec 7 2010 10:25AM
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