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We assure all members we have no malicious software running on our site. We are working with our host to find the cause of the warnings. about 2 hours ago via web Malware update. OpenX was loading data from other sites onto our pages. We have now stopped this. word linx is now safe to use again. 5:41 AM Oct 18th via web Some members have reported seeing malware warnings on our site. We are currently investigating to find the cause of this. 5:25 AM Oct 18th via web
Malware update. Google have now rescanned WordLinx and have confirmed it is safe to use. All warnings have been removed. about 3 hours ago via web
Malware warnings.Over the last few days, many users have had malware warnings from our site. Obviously, WordLinx does not host any such software, so we started a full investigation.We asked our host to run a full check over the site, but after scanning through all the files they said WordLinx was clean, which we’d also found.However, piecing together members’ virus software reports, we discovered that our OpenX software (used to control the banners on our site) may have been allowing malware to be distributed through data from exterior sites. We therefore set OpenX only to allow banners from our site, which we thought had fixed the issue.However, as the malware was using openx.net as an intermediary, the warnings continued as our pages use includes from the site. You can see Google’s report here and other OpenX users experiencing the same issue here.We have now completely removed OpenX from our server and we are in the process of creating our own distribution software to display banners in future. All current site base banners have been removed until further notice. Any time remaining for users with current campaigns has been ‘frozen’ until the new system is setup.Thank you to all our members for your patience and understanding while this issue was resolved. Special thanks all the members that sent us detailed reports, which helped us to discover the cause.
