Google Alert when visiting MMO-Champion

Google Alert when visiting MMO-Champion - Final Update
Earlier today MMO-Champion got flagged as "unsafe" by Google, resulting in a big ass warning message every time you tried to access the site explaining that MMO-Champion will eat your soul. Well good news, MMO-Champion doesn't eat souls!

This is what happened in a nutshell.
  • In the morning an ad network got compromised and ended up serving a malware. (This is a pretty popular/high-end ad network and I'm not sure if I can give away the name without getting my ass kicked. I'll let them do their own communication)
  • We disabled ads as soon as the first warning appeared.
  • MMO-Champion or any of our infrastructure wasn't compromised, this was entirely 3rd party.
  • Since it's 3rd party and it's always better to be safe than sorry, take this as an opportunity to run a good old Malwarebytes Anti Malware scan on your computer.

Obviously we apologize for the inconvenience.
This article was originally published in forum thread: Google Alert when visiting MMO-Champion started by Boubouille View original post
Published on 2012-11-01 06:02 PM
113 Comments
Comments 114 Comments
  1. mmoca0c62387e3's Avatar
    I'am, Thought it was MCAfee though.
  1. ghostblade's Avatar
    dam you google!
  1. Cai's Avatar
    I am at work so I just ignored the warning.... If this pc bites the dust Ill have a new one in matter of minutes :P
  1. blackblade's Avatar
    "Stay Fluffy"?

    really?
  1. Korru's Avatar
    Oh, I thought the goldfarmers took over Mmochampion... >_>
  1. Frozenbeef's Avatar
    Boubouille


    what did you do to chaud?
  1. Kanegasi's Avatar
    http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/d...o-champion.com

    LOL, silly ads.
  1. mmoce2fa46bcbe's Avatar
    Stay fluffy? Made me chuckle.
  1. Zhaine's Avatar
    this happened to our companies website a while back, its annoying
  1. Powell's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Frozenbeef View Post

    what did you do to chaud?
    seeing as Boubouille runs this place, its not suprising to see him post about something like this.
  1. Lolsteak's Avatar
    Cheers for the heads up Boubys, just got the warning today too
  1. hiragana's Avatar
    I was just coming to ask about this :s
  1. FattyXP's Avatar
    If people are wondering, this is how most peoples accounts get stolen. Bad ad company doesn't check its ads, ad has exploit, installs keylogger and you lose acct. Use FlashBlock and NoScript!
    The biggest problem is all these fan sites that allow the chinese gold farmer advertisements in the first place...
  1. Arkenaw's Avatar
    This is why I block ads, not because I don't want to support the sites I use.
  1. ElfinHilon10's Avatar
    Ah perfect. Thank you for this!

    I reloaded the page from over night and bam I saw the warning. I was like "what the hell??"

    Good know everything is safe! Stay fluffy bubs!
  1. Glerimos's Avatar
    I saw this warn only 2 times. First on main page, second on General Discussions forum. And now working fine.
  1. markdall's Avatar
    Fortunately, I don't see ads here, due to a combination of Tracking Protection Lists and a massive hosts file. With Internet Explorer 10. When I run Firefox, I use Noscript, Adblock, and Flashblock.
  1. Vargur's Avatar
    I'm not getting any alert.
  1. PWOKristy's Avatar
    Alright. Cool. Thanks guys. I was wondering about that and what happened. And "stay fluffy" reminded me of the 2 Happy Feet movies. lol
  1. lakhesis's Avatar
    Time to vet the ads better =)
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