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OmniURL virus
« on: September 08, 2012, 07:14:01 pm »
In case some people are still unaware that Omni switched from OmniURL to OURL a few months ago, do not click any link leading to omniurl.tk anymore! Omnimaga has discontinued the omniurl.tk domain name to replace it with ourl.ca a few months ago. The old OmniURL domain name has since been squatted and now redirect to viruses.

Omnimaga has been using ourl.ca instead as URL shorterner, but the admins haven't removed the Twitterfeed for omniurl.tk yet. As a result, Facebook news notifications occasionally notifies you of news coming from the latter URL, putting users at risk. All new updates, Twitter and Facebook will use OURL.

Thanks for understanding and hopefully no one's computer got harmed by that domain name squatting.

Four and half a year ago, a similar incident occured to our previous site URL, omnimaga.dyndns.org, used from October 2005 to October 2006. It remained active afterward, to avoid breaking old links, but was hacked in Early January 2008 to be redirected to Ticalc's IRC instructions page, then the Mudkip page on Wikipedia, to finally start fowarding to nvm2u. As of today it still redirects there (quite ironic considering that DynDNS service now costs money)
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Re: OmniURL virus
« Reply #1 on: September 08, 2012, 07:23:53 pm »
Eeems should had fixed this already as soon I PM'd him about it with my instructions to fix it. Also dat omniurl.tk censor thing. Lol.

EDIT: Lol found hax, edited the above post with it :P
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Re: OmniURL virus
« Reply #2 on: September 08, 2012, 07:29:59 pm »
Good to hear. I think there are still omniurl.tk links all over the web though by now so hopefully people be careful.
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Re: OmniURL virus
« Reply #3 on: September 08, 2012, 07:32:33 pm »
*omniurl.tk

Tip: use omniurl[b][/b].tk :P
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Re: OmniURL virus
« Reply #4 on: September 08, 2012, 07:47:48 pm »
Stupid word filter can be annoying <.<
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Re: OmniURL virus
« Reply #5 on: September 08, 2012, 08:14:47 pm »
How did a virus get there?
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Re: OmniURL virus
« Reply #6 on: September 08, 2012, 08:32:14 pm »
The domain likely expired (.tk messes up anyway, so that's why we bought ourl.ca (thanks to my canadian citizenship :P)), so it redirects to their parking page.
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Re: OmniURL virus
« Reply #7 on: September 08, 2012, 08:33:02 pm »
Ooh, you're a Canadian too? Isn't it awesome?
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Re: OmniURL virus
« Reply #8 on: September 08, 2012, 09:52:38 pm »
Canadians...:P You get your own website!?
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Re: OmniURL virus
« Reply #9 on: September 08, 2012, 10:52:16 pm »
There's a domain for every country :P  ie .us in the US and .fr in France.

Regarding the topic..wow. I'm hoping it's caught by most if not all the large antivirus programs out there.
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Re: OmniURL virus
« Reply #10 on: September 08, 2012, 10:54:06 pm »
Quote from: Darl181 on September 08, 2012, 10:52:16 pm
There's a domain for every country :P  ie .us in the US and .fr in France
Well I knew that :P, but I didn't know that omnimaga had a domain that originated in Canada. And what exactly did this virus do?
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Re: OmniURL virus
« Reply #11 on: September 08, 2012, 10:54:53 pm »
I hope no one's actually clicked the download link to test, but it's definitely a scam site. Who knows.
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Re: OmniURL virus
« Reply #12 on: September 08, 2012, 11:03:43 pm »
Well, Omnimaga actually originated in Québec, Canada, so yeah.

Alsoo woohoo another Canadian :3
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Re: OmniURL virus
« Reply #13 on: September 09, 2012, 12:17:20 am »
Wow, someone makes viruses that spread through omnimaga D:
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Re: OmniURL virus
« Reply #14 on: September 09, 2012, 01:19:18 am »
Quote from: blfngl on September 08, 2012, 10:54:06 pm
Quote from: Darl181 on September 08, 2012, 10:52:16 pm
There's a domain for every country :P  ie .us in the US and .fr in France
Well I knew that :P, but I didn't know that omnimaga what domains in Canada. And what exactly did this virus do?
I don't know since Avast blocks the connection immediately.
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