just come onto MN and McAfee telling me it's detected a trojan

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said to restart pc so it could deal with it, so I did that.
Came back onto MN again and same thing again:
Am creating this post so I can report my own post and let HQ know that way.
Havent had any other websites open, so has to be MN - didn't they have this problem the other week, or something similar?

Anyone else?

Hello. Thanks for alerting us to this.

Any chance you remember what ads were displaying when you logged on?

Yes, just happened to me too. Right now. From the Active Conversations page.

Did you see any ads on that page, Conflugenglugen?

Hi there, it was Here Comes the Highway Rat when I first came onto MN.

I had this, and it was something to do with java (I came straight to active convos, but can't remember what ads there were, sorry).

Yes! I've just had "Malicious Toolkit" blocked by Norton. Hmmm.....fishy......

another box popped up since then, saying Adobe Acrobat not working properly or somthing????
Has triggered my pc to start scanning now.

there were ads, but i'm not sure which ones ... hang on ... will click on back to see if there's anything there, because it'll probably be from my cache ...

Thanks - this is all v helpful.

Any info you can give us about what you're seeing - and what ads are displaying - will help us hugely in trying to sort this out.

Okay - a TalkTalk banner at the top; Miller Homes; Great Little Trading Company. That's everything. I had kept my Active Conversations page open, so these are the original ads.

me too norton found trojan

sorry, have to go out now

Hi just had this as well - did a full computer scan and there were 3 Trojans detected - can't remember what the ads were but I was in Active convos at the time. (using explorer and AVG) Cheers

I had a virus alert perhaps 10-15 mins (ish?) ago as well - only thing open was MN, but sorry no clue re ads.

Okay - gone into my McAfee log, and this is what it reported:

10:31:03 - Real-Time scan picked up the following: FakeAlert-WinWebSec!env.g (Trojan) - Repaired/Removed

Risk Assessment: Home Low | Corporate Low
Date Discovered: 01/03/2011
Date Added: 01/03/2011
Origin: Unknown
Length: N/A
Type: Trojan
Subtype: Win32
DAT Required: 6272

Thanks all.

OK, we've disabled some ads and are investigating further.

Do please let us know if you get any further warnings like this.

I had this too - my virus scanner had about 8 or 9 warnings. Sorry I didn't think to check the ads bu I'll know for future reference.

I have had Nortons finding trojans as well. I think it was MN as I've never had any problems with the other sites I had open, but of course I can't be sure. I had already moved on by the time the alert came through so I don't which ads were there - sorry!

@Pinot

I had this too - my virus scanner had about 8 or 9 warnings. Sorry I didn't think to check the ads bu I'll know for future reference.

No need to apologise Pinot! But yes, this is usually an ad thang, so def worth noting for next time

I'm in a box

I have Avast anti-virus and it detects something wrong too, i have not clicked on any ads, just threads inactive convos.

in active convos not inactive convos!

Avast is saying it on every page, active, threads I'm on, single threads, regardless of the ad. It says the threat is MN itself whereas when it did it before (couple of weeks ago) it listed the ad as a threat. Innocent smoothies, vodafone, something to do with hotpants are the first three ads I noticed but Avast says it's a malware from MN.

This is about the 3rd thread on this.
Are we being invaded