Was in one of the threads on the college page when I got an alert to install an update for the Flash Player. The screen kind of faded gray on the sides and the adobe alert was right in the middle of the thread/page. Immediately tried to get me to save an exe to install flash.

Was running Microsoft Security Essentials and it caught it right away, here are the details from their stie:

http://www.microsoft.com/security/po...tid=2147627865

It likely came from something via your ad network but wanted to give the heads up. I canceled the download, went to adobe's site and verified that I was on the latest version and did not need an update.

I had multiple tabs open but I was in the TWT page and that alert only showed on the tab for the forums.

I didn't notice the graininess on my side this morning, but maybe I didn't look hard enough.

Googling said username shows that he's been showing up all day on vBulletin forums posting seemingly normal stuff with his script embedded afterwards. Not even a bot, some dude took the time to register for all these forums months ago to post this stuff today. The wonderful world of malware...

I sent his information to my cousin who works for the FBI... See where it goes from there.

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Any way to prevent users from embedding javascript in their posts to prevent stuff like this or does it take away too much core functionality like embedding youtube videos?

I'm working on a fix for it right now that calls the FireFox blacklist and prevents those URLs from being entered.