wgt is hacked

• trickyputt 9 Posts

  Tue, Mar 22 2011 9:15 PM

  when i got done with a game the bs " scanning  for a virus popped up"

• LeifV 2 Posts

  Tue, Mar 22 2011 10:44 PM

  Happened to me too - around that same time.  I just finished hole 8 of a 9er.  I wonder if it is connected to the Country Club Tournament/Country of Residence issue???  Maybe their fixing it!

• thebigeasy707 5,885 Posts

  Tue, Mar 22 2011 11:05 PM

  i'm more inclined to think it's been some WGT file that's triggered false AV warning alerts...that's all...nothing too sinister.

   

  if an AV don't recognise the makeup of a file/cookie etc it'll cry Warning.

   

  what you say WGT???

   

  tbe

• bearclaw27 553 Posts

  Tue, Mar 22 2011 11:45 PM

  Me too... about 2 hours ago while i was playin a cc tourney...

  the malware came up as "windows security"

  Maybe the wrong guy got metered 1 too many times...lol

• nomadtx 102 Posts

  Wed, Mar 23 2011 12:02 AM

  Happened to me during a match play game and crashed game window. Restarted and finished game. Ran my AV scan and found nothing.

  Happened around 1:30 AM Central 3-23-11.

  Will get screen shot next time. 

• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Wed, Mar 23 2011 12:15 AM

  You spooks drive me nuts. Check this, unhook that, plug this in, download ,upload, and piss & moan about all of it. What a mess.

• RyjaTybas 5,150 Posts

  Wed, Mar 23 2011 5:17 AM

  I also got a fake alert while playing yesterday - & nothing else was running but WGT. Did not click on it of course - because it looked just like a nasty bit of malware I had recently - and it went away - but very worrying. Could it be linked to the explosion of ADs were now getting?

• WGTicon 12,511 Posts

  Wed, Mar 23 2011 11:38 AM

  This does fit the MO of a phishing scam.  Do not click on virus warnings unless you are sure that they are coming from your legitimately installed anti-virus software (ie AVG, Kaspersky etc).

• thebigeasy707 5,885 Posts

  Wed, Mar 23 2011 8:38 PM

  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.

  It ain't WGT's fault.

   

  tbe

• thebigeasy707 5,885 Posts

  Wed, Mar 23 2011 8:39 PM

  SweetiePie:

  You spooks drive me nuts. Check this, unhook that, plug this in, download ,upload, and piss & moan about all of it. What a mess.

  rofl..

  tbe