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headacheboy · #176 Post by **headacheboy** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 10:20 pm

For the past two days now every time I go to criterion.com my anti-virus program goes nuts and announces that I have obtained a virus from the website. Then, within 10 seconds, it announces I have another virus from the same site. As it stands I currently have seven viruses locked in the "virus vault". I'm no computer expert so I can't determine what the heck is going on. I see others have had problems with the site recently but has anyone experienced this particular problem?

Since I am unwise in this area, I don't want to e-mail Criterion and bark at them over infecting me until I can better understand the situation. And even then, I won't bark at them.

#177 Post by **cdnchris** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 10:24 pm

headacheboy wrote:For the past two days now every time I go to criterion.com my anti-virus program goes nuts and announces that I have obtained a virus from the website. Then, within 10 seconds, it announces I have another virus from the same site. As it stands I currently have seven viruses locked in the "virus vault". I'm no computer expert so I can't determine what the heck is going on. I see others have had problems with the site recently but has anyone experienced this particular problem?

Since I am unwise in this area, I don't want to e-mail Criterion and bark at them over infecting me until I can better understand the situation. And even then, I won't bark at them.

Is there a name for the virus? It should say in the vault.

Ovader · #178 Post by **Ovader** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 11:05 pm

cdnchris wrote:Is there a name for the virus? It should say in the vault.

Mine says the following after I deny the first trojan:
Trojan program (modification):
Trojan-Clicker.HTML.IFrame.ml

File:
http://www.nihaorr1.com/1.js

#179 Post by **domino harvey** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 12:09 am

Does this mean we're about to see a Criterion release of

lacritfan · #180 Post by **lacritfan** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 1:10 pm

OK, I'm 99% sure this is just those oh so thorough folks at Deep Discount, but Google "criterion collection" "virus" and click the first hit - if this is a hack, then wow.

CSM126 · #181 Post by **CSM126** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 1:16 pm

lacritfan wrote:OK, I'm 99% sure this is just those oh so thorough folks at Deep Discount, but Google "criterion collection" "virus" and click the first hit - if this is a hack, then wow.

I got a nifty review of the Fuller Eclipse set. I imagine that's not what you were referring to?

lacritfan · #182 Post by **lacritfan** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 1:29 pm

CSM126 wrote:
lacritfan wrote:OK, I'm 99% sure this is just those oh so thorough folks at Deep Discount, but Google "criterion collection" "virus" and click the first hit - if this is a hack, then wow.
I got a nifty review of the Fuller Eclipse set. I imagine that's not what you were referring to?

Nope, I got this

CSM126 · #183 Post by **CSM126** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 2:06 pm

lacritfan wrote:
CSM126 wrote:
lacritfan wrote:OK, I'm 99% sure this is just those oh so thorough folks at Deep Discount, but Google "criterion collection" "virus" and click the first hit - if this is a hack, then wow.
I got a nifty review of the Fuller Eclipse set. I imagine that's not what you were referring to?
Nope, I got this

Huh. Well, you never can get enough Jamie Lee Curtis...

Toshiro De Niro · Wed Apr 16, 2008 5:21 pm

my AVG scanner detects the virus as well. I emailed Criterion yesterday saying just that. The name of the virus "HTML/framer".
I also noticed criterion's website got a bit slower.
Doing some research on internet i found out that many websites have been reported having the same virus. Just like the Towelie I have no idea what's going on.

mogwai · #185 Post by **mogwai** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 6:58 pm

It looks like Criterion is just one of many sites that has been hacked by this virus. I'm not tech savvy enough to understand it all, but if you google search "nmidahena" and "virus" you'll find a slew a message boards and PC security sites discussing it.

headacheboy · #186 Post by **headacheboy** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 7:24 pm

Here's a bit more info: My computer says the "object name is 1[1].js" and the "discovery: virus found HTML/Framer" Like most, I haven't a clue what any of it means. But I have the savages locked away in the Virus Vault.

lacritfan · #187 Post by **lacritfan** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 10:16 pm

Looks like they fixed the problem. It's loading up like it should, the last few days it was worse than a 56k modem.

lacritfan · #188 Post by **lacritfan** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 10:18 pm

CSM126 wrote:
lacritfan wrote:
CSM126 wrote: I got a nifty review of the Fuller Eclipse set. I imagine that's not what you were referring to?
Nope, I got this
Huh. Well, you never can get enough Jamie Lee Curtis...

...but Deep Discount still thinks Virus with JLC should be filed under Criterion Collection...

eez28 · #189 Post by **eez28** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 10:23 pm

lacritfan wrote:Looks like they fixed the problem. It's loading up like it should, the last few days it was worse than a 56k modem.

Now they need to load up the new titles

#190 Post by **cdnchris** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 10:42 pm

It appears that their site was somehow compromised and a javascript link was placed on their pages. What the script does is opens an iframe (basically a little window on the page) that then points to another URL that then proceeds to run a bunch of bad scripts (what they do I'm also not aware of.)

I would suggest that everyone should block this site:

nmidahena-dot-com (DO NOT visit this address!)

Tribe · #191 Post by **Tribe** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 11:12 pm

On nmidahena.com see this.

Narshty · #192 Post by **Narshty** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 5:31 pm

Where have all the essays gone?

foggy eyes · #193 Post by **foggy eyes** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 5:42 pm

Narshty wrote:Where have all the essays gone?

Damn good question - I went to read the Wajda pieces the other night and was greeted by only three words. Now every essay appears to have disappeared completely. What gives?

Cinephrenic · #194 Post by **Cinephrenic** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 3:25 pm

What happened to the Criterion "focus" section?

Anhedionisiac · #195 Post by **Anhedionisiac** » Sun May 04, 2008 5:33 pm

For that matter, whatever happened to the essays? I remember, a few months ago, panicking because they had dissappeared only to find out it was limited to the most recent releases and the rest of the catalog had their essays on-site.
But now. As of today and who knows since when. Not a single Criterion entry on the webpage has an essay available.
Fudge!

Perkins Cobb · #196 Post by **Perkins Cobb** » Mon May 05, 2008 4:57 pm

Yeah. Those cheap bums. It's like they want me to BUY their damn DVDs instead of Netflixing them and then reading the essays online at work Monday morning!

And of course their stupid Flash-based site is confounding my attempts to Google a web cache of any given essay -- I'm only getting the first page.

Anhedionisiac · #197 Post by **Anhedionisiac** » Mon May 05, 2008 6:53 pm

Perkins Cobb wrote:Yeah. Those cheap bums. It's like they want me to BUY their damn DVDs instead of Netflixing them and then reading the essays online at work Monday morning!

And of course their stupid Flash-based site is confounding my attempts to Google a web cache of any given essay -- I'm only getting the first page.

I have to admit my Criterions feel somewhat more valuable now that I know that their essays cant be found online. Or can they? Anybody out there in the know?

s.j. bagley · #200 Post by **s.j. bagley** » Fri May 16, 2008 5:29 pm

Tamara wrote:We had to temporarily remove the essays from our website due to a technical problem, but we plan to restore them as soon as we are able.

i'm glad that he essays are coming back.
there's been a number of films that i decided to pick up based on reading the essays first, and i can't imagine that i'm the only one.

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