Antivirus won't let me connect with Blue or Green

February 29, 2016 1:58 AM

This is the only way my ESET NOD32 Antivirus program will let me communicate with MF right now. Whenever I try to open something on MeFi or AskMeFi -- or the Contact a Moderator page -- I get a notice that the connection has been terminated because of a JS/ScrInject.B trojan. I was doing fine reading the past 24 hours of MeFi until just before posting this. Can anyone confirm there's a problem, or has my antivirus program gotten out of hand?
posted by bryon to Bugs at 1:58 AM (7 comments total)

Hey, pb might have some ideas about this, but for now I can say we haven't heard from anyone else with this trouble so far. Hopefully some other folks using the same antivirus program can weigh in.
posted by taz (staff) at 2:01 AM on February 29, 2016

Eset forums are full of reports of people seeing this trojan everywhere today, so probably a bad signature update.
posted by effbot at 2:32 AM on February 29, 2016 [2 favorites]

Didn't think to check the ESET forums. Thanks, effbot. Until I'm told otherwise, I'll consider this ESET's problem rather than MeFi's. (Well, and my problem, too, as I can't read MeFi!)
posted by bryon at 2:39 AM on February 29, 2016

I'm having the same problem. Guess I'll have to browse MeFi on one of the umpteen-other devices around my home NO IT'S FINE REALLY
posted by um at 2:41 AM on February 29, 2016 [1 favorite]

Confirmed to be a bug by Eset folks.
posted by effbot at 2:46 AM on February 29, 2016 [1 favorite]

And they've got a fix out now.
posted by bryon at 3:38 AM on February 29, 2016

UPDATE (11:20 GMT): Update 13103 addressing the issue was released to all users. Clicking Update - > "Update now" in the main windows of your ESET product will download the latest signature database.

source
posted by andrewcooke at 5:05 AM on February 29, 2016