MOTD virus?

[[LoCO] Living TribunaL]

I just joined Skial NY DB server, one of the skial servers i frequent. At the MOTD screen that plays an advertisement I received a familiar msg in a window over the MOTD. The windows was invisible i.e. i could see the game through the window with white text that something to the effect of your registry is corrupted or something and you need to contact Microsoft etc security risk etc, the window appeared either as a popup in the MOTD or as part of the steam browser, not sure which. after clicking ok to both of the same windows I could not click on anything in the game or join team, i alt tabbed out and closed tf2 on task bar. an error msg popped up said it not advisable to ignore this or something like that. its all the same kind of stuff i get when removing viruses from other peoples computers. It sounds like ransomware. i havent had a virus on this computer in a loooong time as i dont do much other than play TF2 on it. [EDIT] I dont visit Facebook or any malicious sites and use chrome with ad block plus. The error msg that popped up when i closed tf2 was a java script console error msg.[/EDIT] Running virus scan now. Anywho I was wondering if anyone else has had this specific problem, this one is new to me.

 

[Meowcenary]

Sometimes advertisers will try to slip bad ads past the advertising company which can end up on reputable websites, or in this case in a motd. This happened before awhile back but it was a virus that required people to click the advertisement to get the virus.

I'm not sure if this is a repeat of last time, @Bottiger could probably shed some light on what could be going on.

 

[KillerZebra]

https://www.skial.com/threads/advertising-facts.36335/#post-409350

 

[Bottiger]

Sorry I can't shed any light on this. All I can do is ask our advertiser.

But it is highly unlikely you were infected from our motd. Valve already removed Flash so the only way you could be infected is if you explicitly downloaded an executable file and ran it. And I don't even think it is possible to download files through the motd.

No one ever got a virus from us. The last time someone complained about it, their anti-virus detected a possibly risky domain, not any actual malware.

There have also been many cases where people thought we were the problem when it was something else.

 

[[LoCO] Living TribunaL]

Wasn't sure of the root of the problem. It happened once I joined a tf2 server so naturally i work back from what was going on when it happened. It is possible that it actually was not a virus either. I have scanned and found nothing. I can join servers now. I remembered that windows just updated last night and changed registry entries on restart this morning and the error was about registry entries. I was asking about virus because I have seen many viruses emulate this behavior. All good now though.