Trojan on ukessays.com website - beware!

I visited ukessays website yesterday and my Kaspersky Internet Security alerted me to the Trojan they have on the website (see image).

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Hi, as the main admin of ukessays.com I can assure you that there is no malware or virus on ukessays.com of any kind.

I would like to investigate your problem though, can you tell me which page of the site is giving you this message or is it the whole site? Also, can I suggest that if you get these types of message, or you are concerned about any site you are visiting, please contact the webmaster of the site, don't post the information on unrelated forums. If you tell the webmaster then you are helping them ensure there are no problems. Report instances to the source, not to another website, it's common sense.

Thank you for your help.

Carly, how can you assure people there are no viruses on your website if you did not know about this one?

I posted evidence that there is a Trojan on ukessays.com website and this should be a warning to people accessing your website. As an admin you should know what is going on with your website.

We have checked the entire website and the server itself for evidence of a genuine iframe threat of some kind as your Kaspersky is reporting and there is none. I am 100% sure of this. Are you willing to help us further investigate this by providing the information I requested? It would help if you post the url of the exact page on which this threat was reported.

Please also don't discount that your PC is infected, you should check this, as a symptom of many infections is the malware or virus will attempt to monitor your internet activity and give false warnings. Have you also discounted the numerous false positives that this particular heuristic Trojan warning is guilty of giving? Heuristic techniques are not totally accurate as their name suggests.

100% Sure? Right! How about this? (see the image below)

Carly, I am not sure what kind of admin you are, but from the very start I've given you a screenshot from where you could have seen I am talking about your homepage. Good luck!

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OK, you'll have to forgive me for not being totally familiar with the Kaspersky method of warnings.

We are 100% sure UKEssays.com is not hosting any malware or viruses. We have access to the server, the root files and all the databases; you have a false positive from your virus scanner.

We have checked our homepage in depth. We have thoroughly checked our server. We have also had a member of our staff that uses Kaspersky visit the site with all the settings set to high, we do NOT see an iframe script warning. I have also done a simple check of AVG here:

avgthreatlabs.com/sitereports/domain/?domain=ukessays.com&check

No one else is reporting any issues with UKEssays.com

I am sorry, but this is probably a false positive local to your system. I suggest you do a full scan of your system to ensure you are not infected and, if that is clear, report the false positive to Kaspersky.

I surely did scan my system after visiting your website :-)))))))))))))))))

There is, however, another possibility: you have purposefully installed this Trojan on your website to hack into systems of your visitors.

Anyway, I don't trust your website!

You are free to make your own decision on which essay writing websites you visit of course. I thank you for bringing the matter to our attention, but we are satisfied that UKEssays.com is 100% clear of malware, viruses and other threats. We have no interest, reason or desire to install anything onto our visitor's systems.

If you continue to experience these messages, I urge you to report this to Kaspersky as it may be their software causing these false positives.

This smacks heavily of an underhanded way to dissuade users from going to ukessays (a site I have absolutely no affiliation with whatsoever) rather than a legitimate concern. for a nicelady, you're a real b**-h.

This complaint is invalid-period.

However, a Spartan Donkey has infected essaybrunch.

Actually, you can't. While the students may accidentally upload an infected file, these websites often attach malware and trojans to files being . downloaded by the writers, usually for the purpose of gaining data on the writer for future use. oThe same practice is also applied to the client files downloaded from the company server.

Kaspersky isn't really a very reliable antivurus software. It fails to do real time monitoring and updating of its virus listings. It is always a late comer to the game so I would not be surprised that it would be returning a false positive reading in certain instances. However, the way the virus is presented in this case, it appears to be an infection in the system of the user. A malware that is triggered by certain site url's. It is more than likely that the report is actually a photoshopped image from a competitor who is trying to dissuade users from proceeding to a website. It is not an uncommon competitive practice. Also, since most warnings come with a "report to admin" warning, it made no sense for the OP to post the image here rather than following the instructions for virus detection and removal. That warning is missing from both images provided, making it ever clearer that the images were put together for a more devious purpose. The image does not contain the correct warning messages and starting procedures to contain the malware or virus.