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"Warning: Visiting this site may harm your computer!
The website at scratch.mit.edu contains elements from the site icons.iconator.com, which appears to host malware – software that can hurt your computer or otherwise operate without your consent. Just visiting a site that contains malware can infect your computer.
For detailed information about the problems with these elements, visit the Google Safe Browsing diagnostic page for icons.iconator.com.
Learn more about how to protect yourself from harmful software online."

Thats the warning it gave me

Yeah, that looks like it's the orange bouncing sheep that's triggering that... There's nothing wrong with that thread 

No, It's no the person, it's several people. More than one person has the bouncing rainbow sheep, for sure.

I have images turned on, but I don't get the alarm. I also couldn't find it
Was it removed?

Blade-Edge wrote:

I have images turned on, but I don't get the alarm. I also couldn't find it
Was it removed?

Nope - It's still there. I turned images on for a second, but Safari didn't think of it as a threat until I tried going directly to the image. I guess Chrome is different than that. It's the image of what is ironically a "peace" symbol in HighSchoolMusical911.

JeanTheFox wrote:

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                             So now what?

I removed the image from their signature, as it was causing problems. It should work now.

JeanTheFox wrote:

Did you tell them? If part of my signature vanished I'd be confused.

There's a notification that it was removed in the signature. Take a look. But they're no longer active anyways.

Yes, Firefox won't let me even go to that site. It's infected one site(clubpenguininsiders.com) by, I think, someone posting an image, or a link to that site. Firefox says:

Safe Browsing
Diagnostic page for iconator.com

What is the current listing status for iconator.com?

    Site is listed as suspicious - visiting this web site may harm your computer.

    Part of this site was listed for suspicious activity 1 time(s) over the past 90 days.

What happened when Google visited this site?

    Of the 1787 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 1513 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 2010-07-27, and the last time suspicious content was found on this site was on 2010-07-27.

    Malicious software includes 1516 exploit(s), 147 trojan(s), 119 scripting exploit(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 w91t.com/, 2rry.com/, t58v.com/.

    This site was hosted on 22 network(s) including AS558 (NET2EZ), AS20940 (AKAMAI), AS6939 (HURRICANE).

Has this site acted as an intermediary resulting in further distribution of malware?

    Over the past 90 days, iconator.com did not appear to function as an intermediary for the infection of any sites.

Has this site hosted malware?

    Yes, this site has hosted malicious software over the past 90 days. It infected 1 domain(s), including clubpenguininsiders.com/.

How did this happen?

    In some cases, third parties can add malicious code to legitimate sites, which would cause us to show the warning message.

Glad it is removed 

We need to get this out there.

Locomule wrote:

Just don't go to iconator. Its not like there are little diseased rainbow sheep marauding through the internet taking pcs down left and right. There is NO SUCH THING as a virus that is in a picture and executes/installs itself. You could put the code into a photo's info data but again, it would not run/install by itself.

And if ANY domain got infected, it is because someone at that machine actually ran a virus code. For instance, if I ran my machine as a server, people could send me viruses from sunup to sundown and nothing would happen. They would just be files stacking up on the hard drive. But if someone tricked Windows Media Player, Firefox, some normal Windows Service, or whatever program into executing the "virus" code while I was trying to do something else, it would actually become active. That is why you see sites that let you upload suspicious files which they check and then report back to you whether or not it was malware. It is not like they get a file that is a virus, disinfect or reformat their server and then rush back online to get the next uploaded suspicious file 

Wanna be hackers (who usually are just following some tutorial and know very little about how the code actually works) really really really want you to think that a computer virus is this living, evil entity that once released is on a mission of doom. Most of the time, they are just taking advantage either of bad programing or some freaky programing loophole that got overlooked. When you are playing a game and find out about a "hack" (not a cheat purposefully included by the game maker) it is essentially the same thing. Except that hopefully it only lets you do stuff you are not supposed to instead of actually crashing the game.

Very true. There are some pretty nasty viruses out there like the Windows shortcut link (.lnk) exploit that spread easily, but ultimately it comes down to staying smart, keeping your software updated and having a good malware-protection program. Most of the time, if people were smarter about what they downloaded and ran, and what websites they visited, malware would be a lot less common.

Coolstuff removed the image that had the malware site hosting it.