First we asked privately; but were dismissed.

Then we petitioned peacefully; but were silenced.

Now we protest publicly; a protest that can neither be dismissed nor silenced.

I have rallied together the largest and greatest sites of Wetpaint to ask one last time for enhanced site security. The proposals of our protest are simple; effective measures which will ensure the termination of trolls; preventative measures which will stop waves of spam bots ravaging sites; and supportive measures which will ensure the vulnerable users are protected from undesired material!

We present to the Wetpaint staff our manifesto highlighting our concerns and recommendations for possible solutions.

1. Waves of spam bots are continually attacking and destroying sites; flooding them with viruses, trojans and malicious adware!

SOLUTION: A simple logic problem to be completed during account creation; for example, “what does 2 + 7 equal?” or “Jenny is taller than Jack who is shorter than Jane. Who is tallest?” This would have several questions which computers cannot answer.
These have been proven to be 100% effective, if created properly, against attacks from a computer.

2. Person A trolls a site. The staff bans them. Person A creates another account and continues trolling; and so on and so forth.

SOLUTION: A proper IP banning system. We need the ability to properly ban users. Whilst this solution has only a 44% estimated effectiveness, it is better than the current system which has 0% effectiveness against trolls creating new accounts.

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Visitors to the acac.wetpaint.com site have experienced virus attacks from "spyware protection 2009" which apparently attacks with viruses named BankerFox.A and Nuquel.E.

These threats are apparently commercial promotions but can affect windows files for computer use. The viruses may be distributed through the scrolling ads.

Does wetpaint have any means of removing viruses from sites?

Any further advice for site administrators to handle such problems?

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I have been a long-time wetpaint user and frequnetly recommend it to teachers when giving faculty development workshops. Three teachers who are using a wiki I created with wetpaint have reported SERIOUS problems. When on this page of my wiki (www.buildinsecondlife.wetpaint.com) they got virus protection update alerts. One of them (unfortunately) clicked on it and admitted a trojan virus to her computer. Hours of downtime and hundreds of dollars of technical support to retrieve her data. I will stop using wetpaint.

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When my friend went to my wetpaint website, malware was installed which took over his computer and asked for money to remove the bug. Tech support in his office is now in the process of reloading his computer. If I can get the specific bug name, I'll report it here. This happened about 90 minutes ago.

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So my browser blocked the shimmyschool wetpaint site as being "malicious" I thought that this was in error until I had someone naviagte to my site only to have an advertisement hijack their computer telling them that they can't run their regular antivirus because it is infected. We had to restor their system to an earlier point. I don't mind advertisements because that's what supports the sites and keeps them running, but this kind of "advertising" is illegal. Can you find the source and put a stop to it please??

Much appreciated!
Ginnina

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Two of my students are getting malware warnings on their computers when they try anad log in to two different class wikis. I have both wikis set as Education and hope that the ads for this are not causing problelms. Is there something else I can do. Access to the wiki is vital for class.

Thank you

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When I try to log into one of my Wetpaint sites, MARK STATE: TOWARD OUR BRIGHT FUTURE, one of my browsers reports an infection and won't let me log in. Can you please look into this and clean it up?

Thanks,

Mark State

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I am the admin for website:

http://carolinepsq.wetpaint.com/contact

Please advise ASAP:

01/08/2010 Warning: Visiting this site may harm your computer!
The website at carolinepsq.wetpaint.com contains elements from the site statcntr.com, which appears to host malware – software that can hurt your computer or otherwise operate without your consent. Just visiting a site that contains malware can infect your computer.
For detailed information about the problems with these elements, visit the Google Safe Browsing diagnostic page for statcntr.com.
Learn more about how to protect yourself from harmful software online.
I understand that visiting this site may harm my computer.

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comfortec.wetpaint.com has been hacked and a vicious virus attached. I am the administrator for the site, but cannot edit the site due to the virus which keeps taking over my computer each time I go to the site. What can I do to resolve this?

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i keep getting a warning that content from http://statsistats.com/ on my site may host malware
help

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