Antivirus freakout on tales of eorzea page.

[Punainen]

I have had AVG, Symantec and Norton freak out. looks like the potential of a targeted attack. Could have been a change to the target file after it was selected for the contest. Please be cautious and take care not to let your account be stolen.

Post Scribo,
No i do not run multiple antivirus programs on the same OS install, i am a very paranoid person. for a look into my paranoia, see my post about smartphone security token applications here.

OMG, I can't believe people still use Norton or McAfee... I'm surprised those two companies haven't been sued to death already...

I use Kaspersky, and....I'd love to help out but I don't know what page you're referring to.

[Punainen]

You're not alone.

I used virustotal.com to scan the SE forum page and the 'threatening' image. Both looked clean. Still, didn't attempt to load the image to see what it was.

Tried the url, Kaspersky says the file carries a trojan. I'm not going to try and see if it's right about it or not. I trust Kaspersky completely.

"The requested URL cannot be provided

The requested object at the URL:

http://www.daevaofwar.net/uploads/
gallery/album_29/gallery_1126_29_54833.
jpg

Detected threat:

object is infected by Trojan-Downloader.JS.Iframe.dcb"

[Haibel]

I could jump over to Win8 RTM I have on a separate partition. see if it mucks it up. Don't care if that dies. I'm going to wait till I upgrade hardware before I switch over to Win8

[neorei]

yeah there is a virus warning

[Haibel]

opened and nothing happened. scanned system found nothing. I'm only running windows defender thats part of win8 which is really MSE. just a LS photo anyway.

[Lapulapu]

opened and nothing happened. scanned system found nothing. I'm only running windows defender thats part of win8 which is really MSE. just a LS photo anyway.

Hey Haibel!

It's too bad it happens to be one of the 5 winning pictures in that contest. Hope it gets sorted out and the picture reposted.

[Valmonte]

Images do this sometimes if there edited with pirated photo editors used to happen to me while using Adobe Photoshop and coral's paint shop pro. there's nothing wrong with the image itself, likely one of many anti piracy measures.

or it could be a high jacked webpage/redirected links and those are generally bad.

[Haibel]

Hey Haibel!

It's too bad it happens to be one of the 5 winning pictures in that contest. Hope it gets sorted out and the picture reposted.

That's kinda lazy of the community reps to post a link back to their host instead of downloading the originals and hosting the image of the winners themselves. LS website always come and go.

[Haibel]

Images do this sometimes if there edited with pirated photo editors used to happen to me while using Adobe Photoshop and coral's paint shop pro. there's nothing wrong with the image itself, likely one of many anti piracy measures.

or it could be a high jacked webpage/redirected links and those are generally bad.

kinda propose defeating to post edited screenshots in a screenshot contest. it should of been straight from
the game. Obviously SE don't care because one of the EU Screens has a big ol' caption on the shot.

[Huginn]

Just as a side note, you can inject executable code into a jpg. this was once a widely used exploit with bo2k. you could "silk rope" a "butt trumpet" version of bo2k into a jpg and it would install on the openning of the picture. a pirated version of an image editor would be a prime source to find such malicious software adding such an exploit to any picture file you edited with that pirated software.