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.
2y 11mon ago by lemmy.world/u/downpunxx in general
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.
ahhhh that makes perfect sense. stupid fucking name for anyone to name their web asset, but that's almost surely what it was. thanks.
I just read a post a couple of minutes ago that lemmy.world is under ddos attack rn
Ya. But I'm still able to access everything through a phone app
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.
What antivirus are you using?
AVG
It's gotta be one of the worst antiviruses
Not as bad as mcafee tbh
That’s like saying cancer isn’t as bad as AIDS
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.