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Jul 26, 2016 4:33 PM CST
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I'm not saying this to scare everyone, but I think the site has been hacked. It's blacklisted by Norton and Fortinet. Usually, websites aren't mistakenly blacklisted. I also did an external scan with Sucuri SiteCheck, and it says that it's infected with malware. Your antivirus software may not detect the malicious site, but it doesn't mean that the site is not malicious.

The Javascript Trojan that ESET detected looks legitimate. To all those whose antivirus software didn't block the website, I recommend running a full scan with it and deleting the cookies that the site left. That hopefully will get rid of any malware injected in to your computer. (The Trojan itself may not be that dangerous, but it opens up vulnerabilities to adware, spyware, scareware, ransomware (this encrypts your files and demands money to get them back), etc.

The cyber-criminal who hacked the site is also very clever. He knows that iOS devices and OS X users will not get infected by that Trojan. He wants inexperienced users to give him their private information for the iPhone giveaway scam, so he can commit identity fraud or sell the data for money.

Adding to that, the site redirected to another site which is a classic example that the site was compromised.
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