Trojan Attack

[rps]

I was just attacked on your site by "Blackhole Toolkit Website 12" that Norton says originated from "thetrackerhost.com."

[Brian K. Shaffer]

I just ran my Norton "quick scan" and I had 33 tracking cookies.

So I ran it again and it was 0.

Then I came to O/A and posted about the frying fish topic.

Then ran Norton again and it was 3 tracking cookies.

So I know O/A has tracking cookies... but its a shame to think a virus could be hosted here.

[jdmidwest]

A little quick research shows that it probably does not have anything to do with cookies, but maybe a blog site with TimThumb software. I know several on here run their own blogs, it is usually listed in the signature line. If you went that way it may have triggered the response. Or it may have something to do with the switchover. Nothing has triggered my Avast.

Avast Blog, Following Wordpress into a Blackhole.

[rps]

Walleye Central has been afflicted all day by the same host site. Good company at any rate.

[OneLung]

Relating cookies to viruses is a common misunderstanding among web surfers. There are many legitimate technical reasons websites use cookies and just about any professionally built website you go to sets them. While it's possible for some nefarious programmer to design a harmful cookie, it's highly unlikely the code used in it would make it past your anti-virus software without setting off all kinds of bells and alarms. Both IE and FireFox have option settings that will allow you to reject all cookies, but if you do, you probably won't be able to sign-on to your bank, make a purchase from eBay or Amazon and many other things you take for granted.