Something weird in the Pit

There’s this thread that popped up again in the Pit - “Fucking Scammer Motherfuckers” (I’m not linking to it for a reason). Whenever I click on it, my antivirus revs up, and the link won’t open. Considering the subject matter of the thread, I suspect something very fishy may be going on. Can someone look into it?

Edit: Also, I probably should have posted this in ATMB, so if you can also move it I’d be grateful.

I can’t find anything unusual about the thread: Fucking scammer motherfuckers

  • Do you see ads normally?
  • Which antivirus?
  • Which browser?
  • Which Operating System?
  • Just in case: Which Theme?

To determine or change Theme:

  • Click on your Avatar next to the Menu. (Upper Right Corner)
  • Select Profile (The last symbol on the right)
  • Select Preferences again :gear: (The gear symbol)
  • Click on Interface. (Should be the second to last choice.)

Moved from Site Feedback as requested.

  • I don’t normally see ads.
  • Norton 360
  • Chrome
  • Windows 10
  • Sam’s Simple Theme

I’m going to take another look through the thread looking for external links.
Going to the end, everything checks out clean.

I just tried opening it on my iPhone and it works fine. Odd.

Thanks.

I didn’t go through the whole thread but I just opened it, and it looks fine and my anti-virus didn’t complain. It’s not unusual for some AVs to trigger on false positives. It may have been a sketchy ad if you normally see them. We did have issues with occasional malware-laden ads in the past, back in the vBulletin days.

It’s my thread and I’m not a troll. Well, only if looks count.

Something around post 500 in that thread is triggering my anti-virus on both Chrome and Firefox. If I scroll down from the top the last post it displays is 494, and if I scroll up from the bottom the earliest post it displays is 501. So the problem post is somewhere between 495 and 500.

My anti-virus says the web page is infected with HTML-FakeCaptcha-D.

My anti-virus won’t let me see the posts so I can’t tell what’s triggering it.

I broke a link in post 497, hopefully that was the problem.
Post 496

2 more in post 517.

@engineer_comp_geek, please let me know if that fixed it.

Still broken on my system.

Damn, I didn’t see any other links in that range.

Request to mods: please report your issue to reporter Brian Krebs at his website after you figure things out, as appropriate. I’ll break the link myself:

https ://kre bs on security . com/about/

Could the AV being doing a text search and blocking stuff like the command to open the Run prompt?

Does this trigger anyone?

Windows button + R

Its my party, and I’ll cry if I want to?