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There have been reports about a virus warning when browsing Omnimaga topics containing content hosted  on themuncher . net today and it appears this site effectively has viruses being hosted on it. We do not know if it was intentional from the owner of this domain or the people the owner gave webspace (and sub-domains) to, but a bunch of Omnimaga users happens to frequent a website called Neritic Net and because this site is affiliated with The Muncher, several people got webspace on the later. Because of this, it is typical from them to host their Omnimaga avatar, sig images and files on it. Basically, any post containing links to themuncher . net and its sub-domain will give you a Malware warning in Chrome. We do not host such content on Omnimaga and we monitor our files to make sure no such content is linked to, but we have no control over external file hosts. This is why we ask your help (especially Omnimaga members who uses the offending filehost) and if your signature, avatar or posts contains anything or links from there, to delete these links.

No Omnimaga member nor visitor is at fault for this, it is the fault of either the owner of Themuncher, its users or its hosted members for not checking what content is uploaded there or maybe even deliberately hosting bad files.

We hope this warning goes away once these links are gone and would like to apologise to all members for the inconveniences this might have caused. You should not be infected at all so don't worry.
« Last Edit: March 14, 2010, 05:46:02 pm by DJ Omnimaga »

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Re: Please do not post anything hosted on themuncher . net server anymore
« Reply #1 on: March 14, 2010, 05:50:27 pm »
i apologize for this as most of the warnings were about my avatars and images (hence the warning geekboy.themuncher .net ) i am moving every thing over to a different host until issues can be worked out i also apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused

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Re: Please do not post anything hosted on themuncher . net server anymore
« Reply #2 on: March 16, 2010, 10:19:57 am »
Nothing that can't be solved. ;)
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Re: Please do not post anything hosted on themuncher . net server anymore
« Reply #3 on: March 16, 2010, 02:50:46 pm »
Apparently almost the entire Neritic forum got hit x.x, like, every single page returned a similar warning x.x

I am curious when the warnings will go away... I hope it didn't make Google permanently blacklist the sites x.x
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Re: Please do not post anything hosted on themuncher . net server anymore
« Reply #4 on: March 16, 2010, 09:53:02 pm »
If only the programmers of the offending malware and viruses and such spent their time more effectively and usefully by programming games like us! :D

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Re: Please do not post anything hosted on themuncher . net server anymore
« Reply #5 on: March 16, 2010, 10:44:00 pm »
yeah sadly i asked lemmy (the owner of themuncher) if he has tried to get rid of it /contacted his hosting provider he has tried to get rid of it it results in it just returning X.x

and all his provider has to say is  "your site has malware"

i dont think google will black list them as its just on images and such not the whole site :/

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Re: Please do not post anything hosted on themuncher . net server anymore
« Reply #6 on: March 16, 2010, 11:02:51 pm »
This sucks. My guess is that they got hacked. I heard this is hosted with like 500000 ppl, so it's to be expected on certain shared hosting x.x

I hope Lemmy and the Neritic users won't lose too much data x.x