Just got a notice from my antivirus when I reloaded the lemmy.world Local Communities page, that I was protected by being blocked by something called derp.foo botnet.

Is the Communities page, infected?

***** update: a comment reply said that derp foo is a name of a lemmy instance, so i'm sort of positive this was a false positive for a community hosted there getting flagged. what an idiotic thing to name your web asset, as it must get flagged all the time.

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neuromancer@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 3y (1 reply)
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downpunxx@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y

ahhhh that makes perfect sense. stupid fucking name for anyone to name their web asset, but that's almost surely what it was. thanks.

LilDumpy@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y (2 replies)

I just read a post a couple of minutes ago that lemmy.world is under ddos attack rn

TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y (1 reply)
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LilDumpy@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 3y

Ya. But I'm still able to access everything through a phone app

beregoth@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y

I got flagged on my work computer for connecting to derp foo (probably for an image). To satisfy security, had to remove all chrome extensions and reset chrome.

So I don't use Lemmy on my work computer anymore. That's sad.

magmaus3@szmer.info · 2 pts · 3y (4 replies)

What antivirus are you using?

downpunxx@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y (3 replies)

AVG

Less_Hedgehog@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 3y (2 replies)

It's gotta be one of the worst antiviruses

Anti_Weeb_Penguin@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Not as bad as mcafee tbh

rarkgrames@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y

That’s like saying cancer isn’t as bad as AIDS

irdc@derp.foo · 1 pts · 2y

Admin of derp.foo here. My best guess is Hetzner gave me an IP that had been used to host a botnet C&C before. As a precaution I switched to a new VPS; please contact me via matrix at @irdc:tchncs.de if the problem persists.