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  • 1 July 2011 at 12:25 #71170
    EtheAv8r
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      I don’t know if there is any member of the Coventry Model Engineering Society on this forum, but I wanted to warn you that their web site coventrymes .co .uk appears to be hosting malware.
       
      Following a link to a CNC Milling project hosted there was just blocked by my industrial strength Internet Virus protection telling me that it was attempting to download Trojan-Downloader.JS.Iframe.chf
       
      This is what is known as a ‘drive by’ download Trojan infection – you only have to visit the site to get silently infected.
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      1 July 2011 at 12:25 #21892
      EtheAv8r
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        9 August 2011 at 13:41 #73075
        Gary Wooding
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          I’m a member of the Coventry Model Engineering Society (CMES) and can reassure you that, contrary to appearances, the site is not infected.
          We noticed the problem some 6 weeks ago and contacted the company who host the site, but unfortunately they so far haven’t acknowledged that the problem is with their hosting and, instead, provided some useless information about security. So it’s unlikely that they will fix it any time soon.
          We have done everything possible to prevent the files on the website being altered but so far to no avail. Unfortunately, with a hosted solution like this, we are affectively renting space on someone else’s server, over which we have no control, leaving us with limited access to change things.
          We’ve done a lot of research into the problem and the sad news is that, although there is a problem with the website being ‘infected’ , it’s not actually a virus or malware, even though many virus checkers and some browsers interpret it as such.

          Unfortunately this doesn’t help the reputation of the club since few people will realise this, and instead will accept that it’s a virus, and who can blame them!
          A permanent solution is to transfer the entire site to a server that we
          administer, but this is being delayed by the bureaucracy involved.
          As a short term solution, whenever we detect that the problem has recurred, we will upload the website to the host’s server, resetting all permissions, and replacing any altered files. We last did this on 6th August.
          I hope this alleviates your fears.
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