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Cross Site Attack, when trying to log-in to Toms hardware with I.E!

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September 8, 2014 2:35:46 PM

Hi guys

I have been trying to log in to the forums all day on and off but more often than not the site/my browser was behaving oddly. I kept getting the message 'cross site attack detected' in the message window when trying to post a message. I am on Win 8.1 and I'E 11 i think. Just booted up today for the first time.

Sounds ominous!

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September 9, 2014 5:46:11 AM

That sounds ominous indeed! We will get this looked at asap. Thank you for bringing it to our attention. If you can provide any other details, that would be very helpful as well.
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September 9, 2014 6:02:51 AM

Is this an error message that our site, Tom's Hardware, is generating for you? Could you post a screenshot of it?
Or is this a pop-up error message? That's a very unusual message to receive, and my first thought is you might be affected by Malware. Might want to investigate on that angle first.

-JP
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September 9, 2014 7:10:16 AM

Hi yes it was when i was trying to click on the 'post answer' button when replying to post in the forums. The message appeared in the box that usually contains the message that I tried to type- the message was exactly the same font just plain text!

Not really much else I can say. I am now on a v old laptop as my newbuild didnt go according to plan :(  Lets just say I have to order another motherboard. It is not mine and I am not au fait with how to take screen shots. I would imagine its too late now. There is however an article on it I think in the news section somewhere - on the cross site attack thing.

I ran malwarebytes, Norton was up to date and I made sure I installed all relevant win updates before going on the internet so the chances of being infected with malware is highly unlikey I think?
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September 9, 2014 8:35:52 AM

one thing I see with this site is when I close it out I get a ie 11 crash the error come as atidxx.dll or something like that the outher is a java dll I don't use java , but its only from closeing this site out..
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