Thanks Kevin.

- Christina

On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 2:28 PM, Vilbig, Kevin P <[email protected]>
wrote:

> That file doesn't load when I inspect the network traffic on that domain.
>
>
> My knee-jerk suspicion is that there was a man-in-the-middle injecting
> some packets and not something going wrong with socrative's servers.
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Discuss <[email protected]> on behalf
> of Christina Koch <[email protected]>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, January 17, 2018 1:02:45 PM
> *To:* Software
> *Subject:* [Discuss] Question about Socrative security
>
> Hi folks,
>
> A recent workshop attendee sent me the following email about her antivirus
> program finding an issue on the socrative site.  As she says, it's probably
> a false positive, but I thought I'd see if anyone else on the list has ever
> had this come up or noticed any problems.
>
> Cheers,
> Christina
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 12:58 PM
> Subject: One of the tools used in SWC 2018-01-10
> To: Christina Koch <[email protected]>
>
> I wanted to let you know that one of the online tools (b.socrative.com)
> triggered my anti-virus program-i’m guessing it was a false positive, since
> no one else seemed to have an issue. I am using ClamAV antivirus on a Mac
> running OS X Sierra, which scans the Safari browser cache (among other
> locations) and it identified one of the files ieframe.dll.mui as a Trojan
> and quarantined it, so not a problem for me.  But perhaps this would be a
> problem for somebody else, or maybe it isn’t a problem at all, but I wonder
> if somebody wants to check it out, if this is a tool you use quite a bit.
>
>
> --
> Christina Koch - Research Computing Facilitator,
> University of Wisconsin - Madison <http://www.wisc.edu/>, Center for High
> Throughput Computing <http://chtc.cs.wisc.edu/>
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Christina Koch - Research Computing Facilitator,
University of Wisconsin - Madison <http://www.wisc.edu/>, Center for High
Throughput Computing <http://chtc.cs.wisc.edu/>
Wisconsin Institute for Discovery <http://wid.wisc.edu/>; Advanced
Computing Initiative <http://aci.wisc.edu/>; ACI-REF <https://aciref.org/>
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