Virus Alert
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I was reading this Article:
I want to check out the Homepage of Trina Lambert. The link in the post took me to a Fake Page, I could leave or close, a recorded message played, a pop up box as for email info, with recorded message warning if information isn’t given, police would be notified
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hi there,
Do you mean you clicked the button that appeared when you opened that page? Did you read the message on the screen about installing an extension if you click it?
It looks like the site that used to be at that domain when that blog post was writtend in 2015 no longer exists, and someone else now owns that domain. We don’t have any control over something like that.
If you clicked that button it has most likely installed malware on your computer. I suggest you immediately download Malwarebytes and run a scan on your computer, and also run a scan with Windows Defender, or whatever anti-virus software you have installed.
And don’t click buttons on websites if you don’t know what they do.
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kokkieh,
Do you mean you clicked the button that appeared when you opened that page? Did you read the message on the screen about installing an extension if you click it?
I didn’t click the button. The page that loaded prevented me from closing the window. Had to close edge thru task manager.
It looks like the site that used to be at that domain when that blog post was writtend in 2015 no longer exists, and someone else now owns that domain. We don’t have any control over something like that.
You have total control. The blog post should be removed. Rewritten. Updated. Checked often to make sure this isn’t going on. I’m here trying to learn wordpress, following the Blogging 101 course, the links provided should be checked by WordPress, Automattic if this is the information you are suggesting beginners read. It’s your duty to make sure it’s safe to read.
If you clicked that button it has most likely installed malware on your computer. I suggest you immediately download Malwarebytes and run a scan on your computer, and also run a scan with Windows Defender, or whatever anti-virus software you have installed.
I checked my system. Defender scans my pc daily nothing detected.
And don’t click buttons on websites if you don’t know what they do.
I clicked on the link in the wordpress post, the address to the blog, in the link provided, opened the tab with the virus I reported. I joined wordpress cause I thought you all monitored for blogs that by did this kind of thing. How do I create a blog, knowing someone can just write code place it on my blog and create problems? Why haven’t you taken the post down? I reported this yesterday. No telling how many bloggers are clicking this link.
My confidence in wordpress security is in question.
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You have total control. The blog post should be removed. Rewritten. Updated. Checked often to make sure this isn’t going on.
We have since removed the link from that post, but what you’re suggesting is not feasible. https://en.blog.wordpress.com/ currently has over 1400 posts published. We cannot periodically check every link in every post to make sure it still goes where it used to go when the post was published three, five, ten years ago. If a case like this is reported to us we take action, but this isn’t something that you can police pro-actively.
I joined wordpress cause I thought you all monitored for blogs that by did this kind of thing. How do I create a blog, knowing someone can just write code place it on my blog and create problems?
No one can place code on your blog, and no one placed code on that blog. Three years ago we featured a site that was at a particular domain. Since then someone else obtained that domain and is now using it for a different purpose. There is no way for us or any other service to monitor for that type of change and definitely no way that we can prevent that from happening.
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