GMC Urges YoYoGames.com Stay-away

August 18th, 2010 by Philip Gamble | Categories: YoYoGames

Two days ago former Game Maker Community administrator Smarty posted a GMC topic urging anyone who is not confident with their system’s security settings to stay away from yoyogames.com.

Over the past few days visitors to the site have reported virus infections on their Windows machines caused by an exploit in the Acrobat PDF reader browser plugin.

There have been no public comments from YoYo Games on the issue. Although YoYo Games is a bespoke site the makers of Game Maker have a history of using out of date software which has been exploited on more than one occasion in the past.

Update (~12:35 BST): At around the same time as this post was initially written YoYo Games made a post about the matter. Russell Kay writes that the problem was caused by an attack on the OpenX ad server which was used to manage the advertisements displayed alongside games on the website. The ad server has now been removed with ads being served directly from Google and it appears that the issue has been resolved.

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  1. Clavus
    August 18th, 2010 at 16:10
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    The hackers were hired by Google.

    *conspiracy alert*

  2. Jack Brockley
    August 18th, 2010 at 17:05
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    :<

  3. Fenyx
    August 18th, 2010 at 17:23
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    lol ad-fail…

  4. ugriffin
    August 18th, 2010 at 22:12
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    This is the part where we Mac users get to laugh at the Mac haters.

  5. True Valhalla
    August 18th, 2010 at 23:25
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    Haha, I knew Google weren’t to blame.

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