UPDATE: The forum is now clean, but it will take a little bit before the browsers see that. When you try to access click on “proceed.” Thanks!Just in case you have tried to access the Penny Auction Watch forum within the past 24 hours and get an alarming message, we wanted to let you know that we are working to resolve this issue. We have been attacked yet again.

The site that is linked to this attack is a .in URL hosted in the Ukraine.

What is the current listing status for pennyauctionwatch.com/forum?

Site is listed as suspicious – visiting this web site may harm your computer.

Part of this site was listed for suspicious activity 1 time(s) over the past 90 days.

What happened when Google visited this site?

Of the 59 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 2 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 2012-03-29, and the last time suspicious content was found on this site was on 2012-03-29.

Malicious software includes 1 trojan(s). Successful infection resulted in an average of 16 new process(es) on the target machine.

Malicious software is hosted on 3 domain(s), including burialrelief.in/, defapple.org/, 109.230.220.0/.

6 domain(s) appear to be functioning as intermediaries for distributing malware to visitors of this site, including park15promo.in/, js-hosting.in/, directmarketingadvertising.in/.

This site was hosted on 2 network(s) including AS19066 (WIREDTREE), AS13335 (CLOUDFLARENET).

Has this site acted as an intermediary resulting in further distribution of malware?

Over the past 90 days, pennyauctionwatch.com/forum did not appear to function as an intermediary for the infection of any sites.

No, this site has not hosted malicious software over the past 90 days.

In some cases, third parties can add malicious code to legitimate sites, which would cause us to show the warning message.

While we are not sure who has instigated this attack we are working to remedy this problem so that you can access our forum as normal and will update you once this has been resolved.

Thank you for understanding and thank you for being such a loyal reader and member of Penny Auction Watch. 

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