My website is continuing to receive virus attacks. These attacks are directly related to installing avatars. My anti-virus alerted me to a virus but and closed the window while I was trying to upload an avatar. I have ran a scan since then and nothing. The virus is actually on the website and it's all screwed up! This is the second time this has happened, is there away I can help prevent these attacks? I found this on Vb.org but not sure if it would help? Mod Scan link virus online(check link by Drweb) - vBulletin.org Forum Running 3.8.4. Thanks,
Unfortunately you have to do all your securing at server level or at least cpanel on your files look here How To Make My Forums More Secure, In order to resolve the issue I will recommend you to download the web site files on your local computer and using the latest stable version of your anti-virus software scan them. In this way you will be able to remove the malicious code and then you can reupload the files replacing the infected ones.
I guess the answer would be disable updating of avatars? Then again, are you certain it's your server doing this, and not, say, your advertisers? I've had some real tough times with adbrite of late, so much so that I just flat out dropped them because they haven't even bothered to clean up their advertisers (same issue).
Surely if you avatars folder is none exicutable then no harm can be done. I dropped adbrit a long time ago because it just lowers the quality of the site if they can't keep the advertisers in check.
like simon says, I would download the avatars and scan them. if any are infected, delete them from the server (and your pc).
