ENWorld being used as a malware launchpoint?


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I think I deleted my first post. Anyway...

My morning routine consists of screaming at the hellish light of day and a glass of milk with a Poptart. I also check emails and for updates to my favorite gaming sites (Pathfinder included, of course). But this morning I clicked on my bookmark to take me to ENWorld, and Firefox blocked it. Another window opened called the "Google Safe Browsing" diagnostic page and said that twice in the last 90 days ENWorld has been listed for suspicious activity, the last being sometime this morning. Has anyone else heard of this or had it happen?

Edit: Chrome took me right to it without a warning, but Internet Explorer opened up a Google search results page (I typed in the correct URL but was routed there, I guess) that said the site could be harmful to my computer.

Grand Lodge

DungeonmasterCal wrote:

I think I deleted my first post. Anyway...

My morning routine consists of screaming at the hellish light of day and a glass of milk with a Poptart. I also check emails and for updates to my favorite gaming sites (Pathfinder included, of course). But this morning I clicked on my bookmark to take me to ENWorld, and Firefox blocked it. Another window opened called the "Google Safe Browsing" diagnostic page and said that twice in the last 90 days ENWorld has been listed for suspicious activity, the last being sometime this morning. Has anyone else heard of this or had it happen?

Edit: Chrome took me right to it without a warning, but Internet Explorer opened up a Google search results page (I typed in the correct URL but was routed there, I guess) that said the site could be harmful to my computer.

I am having similar warnings.

Google Safe Browsing wrote:

Of the 33 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 18 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 2011-01-21, and the last time suspicious content was found on this site was on 2011-01-21.

Malicious software includes 6 trojan(s). Successful infection resulted in an average of 1 new process(es) on the target machine.

Malicious software is hosted on 3 domain(s), including rldzzlfl.co.cc/, cuorcuyg.co.cc/, epvkobxb.co.cc/.

1 domain(s) appear to be functioning as intermediaries for distributing malware to visitors of this site, including rldzzlfl.co.cc/.

This site was hosted on 1 network(s) including AS30221 (T3COM).

Might want to avoid EnWorld until Morris get's this fixed..

Liberty's Edge

DungeonmasterCal wrote:
My morning routine consists of screaming at the hellish light of day and a glass of milk with a Poptart.

Why do you scream at a glass of milk?

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Jeremiziah wrote:

Why do you scream at a glass of milk?

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Because the cow isn't here to defend it!


I had the same thing happen with firefox.


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DungeonmasterCal wrote:

I think I deleted my first post. Anyway...

My morning routine consists of screaming at the hellish light of day and a glass of milk with a Poptart. I also check emails and for updates to my favorite gaming sites (Pathfinder included, of course). But this morning I clicked on my bookmark to take me to ENWorld, and Firefox blocked it. Another window opened called the "Google Safe Browsing" diagnostic page and said that twice in the last 90 days ENWorld has been listed for suspicious activity, the last being sometime this morning. Has anyone else heard of this or had it happen?

Edit: Chrome took me right to it without a warning, but Internet Explorer opened up a Google search results page (I typed in the correct URL but was routed there, I guess) that said the site could be harmful to my computer.

Google warns you when you try to go to the Forums.


It's not just you. Using Firefox and no matter how I approach it, it trips the malware alert.
Staying away from there for a bit I think.

Grand Lodge

It is google, not your browser. Click through for the details of the security warning.


I normally read their forums on forum runner (really wish it worked with paizos site) but went to enworld directly to get a picture mentioned in an rss feed and got the warning. I have not seen any posts on enworld referring to the problem though.

Dark Archive

Yesterday EnWorld was hacked and that started the malware warnings. It is detailed here. According to the site everything is clean and the problem has been fixed. If you are still getting a malware warning if you try to access the site then try clearing your cache and cookies and that should fix the problem.

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