Recent Dangerous Virus/Worms on Deviantart

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Recently, over the past couple of weeks or so a number of people have been getting attacked by a virus while on Deviantart. This has resulted in said people having to do 'system restores' and even having to go as far as reformatting.

Some have been known to pop up as a deceiving "windows update" popup of some sort while browsing DA or upon full viewing deviations.

I have received numerous pop-up warnings while on the Deviant art website regarding these.


I created this news article in hopes that the community would become more aware of it and take precautions in making sure you have virus protection. Malawarebytes has been a known solution, but people have had trouble installing after being attacked by the virus.

I hope people will spread this information if they find they have had attacks as well, not to spread fear but to inform others of what is going on and could happen.

Those who have been attacked are now too afraid to go on Deviantart after being attacked once, and I would hate to see this happen to everyone simply because the information wasn't out there.

So please help to spread the news while hopefully this issue is looked into.

More information can be read at the above link where people have been helpful in posting solutions to trying to avoid this worm.

[http://neko-cloe.deviantart.com/journal/30355034/]
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HeadXx43's avatar
I keep getting something that auto-downloads a screwed up version of Chrome and tries (and fails because Chrome stops it) to execute the .exe file as soon as it goes through (it tries to download a second part it needs for the main .exe to work I guess and Chrome always stops it, so I think they're definitely aware of it).