My mac started freezing up while doing web development/WordPress work with Chrome. I installed Avast and ran a scan. That scan froze up. Finally Avast came up with JS:Blacole in a popup message. I stopped using Chrome and things ran much smoother with Safari. But I LIKE Chrome so I uninstalled and reinstalled and of course everything started happening again. While working on a client’s site I suddenly got a red warning page “(domain) contains content from commitse.ru, a site known to distribute malware…” see attached.
I read on here to clear all browser history, cookies, etc. from Chrome and I’ve done this. I ran a full system scan successfully and it only came up with warnings about some images (things from my clients).
Is there anything else I should do? I don’t know if I should go into my client’s sites with Chrome again.
Thanks for the reply, but the WordPress is right up to date and my Chrome problems started happening several days before I started on her site. I did run her site through Google’s malware check and it came up clean. I don’t get any warnings or freeze ups in Safari.
No, it’s running 3.4.1. Probably the update was run after the screenshot. But regardless, WordPress versions cannot screw with my computer/Chrome several days before I actually go into that website. The upgrades are good, but they’re not magic.
This problem started before I began work on that site.
The Blackhole Exploit uses a Buffer Overflow utilizing eval and j%3.
Which leads me to suspect while Wordpress was outdated, it was hacked. I assume an admin php file(s) (index.php, etc…) could contain suspect content. Check the php files for suspicious long lines of code.
I wasn’t clear, sorry. What I meant is I’ve had problems every time I use Chrome on any website (before the one I mentioned) and Avast found the JS:Blacole first when I was using Chrome, but not on a client’s site. So I cleared out the history, etc. from Chrome, but I’m hesitant to use it again. Though I did run a full scan. My mac had started to freeze up for the first time ever. When I stopped using Chrome it does not freeze up.
I will use that plugin to check the client’s site though, thank you.