Re: Anti-Virus notice ... game locks up or disconnects during play.

• pullinup 108 Posts

  Wed, Mar 23 2011 8:03 PM

  happened to me today.

  & several others players said same thing happened to them as well.

  wgt has been compromised.

• thebigeasy707 5,885 Posts

  Wed, Mar 23 2011 8:27 PM

  it's not wgt that's compromised...it's adobe flash that has the vulnerability.

  http://www.techwatch.co.uk/2011/03/15/adobe-flash-exploit-to-be-patched-next-week/

  March 15, 2011

  Adobe Flash exploit to be patched next week

  by Darren Allan

  

  Adobe has issued a warning that a critical vulnerability has been detected in its Flash player.

  The vulnerability is exploited via a corrupt Flash file packaged inside a Microsoft Excel file. Apparently the XLS file sets up the system memory to make the attack more effective, and with success it installs persistent malware on the target machine.

   

  tbe

• racoondad 322 Posts

  Wed, Mar 23 2011 8:31 PM

  Just happened to me. I suspect it's from the flash-based banner ad in the scorecard screen.

• pullinup 108 Posts

  Thu, Mar 24 2011 6:46 AM

  hopefully it gets worked out soon.

  Just happened again this am.

  have had a really bad experience with a similar virus warning in the past.

  my computer died.

• PRIESTESS 10,721 Posts

  Thu, Mar 24 2011 8:40 AM

  Just took me 8 tries to log in, It kept saying connection lost retry even though my connection was fine? Has wgt been infiltrated?

• Comalco 18 Posts

  Thu, Mar 24 2011 8:43 AM

  Adobe Flash has been updated in the last few days.  Install the latest version and that should fix the problem.

• Lisa03 5,910 Posts

  Thu, Mar 24 2011 8:57 AM

  Keep getting "FakeAlert" while in game client. This reqires me to run an immediate Virus scan--44 Minutes--and the least important factor is tha it shuts me out of WGT immeiately--can't finish any game.

  Trojan.FakeAlert is a virus from the Trojan family. These programs secretly install themselves in the system, can be remotely controlled by the attacker and are automatically downloaded off an infected website. This specific Trojan installs fake spyware files and a rogue antispyware program to scan and detect the created spyware files on the infected computer, in hopes of tricking the user into purchasing the rogue antispyware.
  
  

• pullinup 108 Posts

  Thu, Mar 24 2011 5:22 PM

  I just restart computer immediately.

  I dont mess with the message.

  As soon as you relize you have lost control of the computer.... restart it.

• sloobylover 44 Posts

  Fri, Mar 23 2012 1:46 PM

  Ive been getting the same thing ....from microsoft operating system ...just started yesterday...installed macafee....& the same thing ....i just dont open DL file....somehow i think it came from this site

• TheBaddestAss 94 Posts

  Mon, Mar 26 2012 9:11 AM

  sloobylover:

  Ive been getting the same thing ....from microsoft operating system ...just started yesterday...installed macafee....& the same thing ....i just dont open DL file....somehow i think it came from this site

   

  It for sure came from this site, most likely in an ad displayed on the page. 

  see here:  http://www.wgt.com/forums/t/93966.aspx