FinneganAsleep

In response to post #7706341. #7706855 is also a reply to the same post. Yikes, I'm pretty sure it happened when I was checking through some images too. (Unfortunately, no antivirus for me...) Have you been redirected on other websites? Or was it just that one-off incident on Nexus? Because I wouldn't put it past something being screwy on the central servers as well.

Alright, I might have received a nasty infection by browsing around the site. Wasn't downloading anything on this computer, but *apparently* the virus is capable of installing itself on your machine by exploiting security flaws in outdated versions of Java. <--- NOT THE SMARTEST THING TO RUN AROUND WITH! To anyone reading this, make sure you have all your plugins (Flash, Java, Quicksilver, whatever) updated. Some browsers are smart enough to automatically disable them once they get outdated (Firefox), others aren't as thoughtful. Don't be tempted into laziness, that's all I'm saying... Refer to this overview http://about-threats.trendmicro.com/us/malware/TROJ_RANSOM.NTW for more detail. Edit, upon further consideration: Has anyone else become infected this way? Skyrim Nexus was the site I was browsing when the virus was executed, but that doesn't rule out the possibility of other sources.