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resident
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 Possible Malware Banners Here at the Forums I've just had an unusual incident.
I was reading the 10,000 BC Will Make Under $25 Mil OW and as I scrolled down to the bottom, the page was suddenly redirected to a "Malware Alarm" product page. Site Advisor indicated red (for malware). I was asked if I wanted the 'Malware Alarm free scan' and of course I said...no.
I have AVG installed. It hasn't indicated anything yet.
In trying to track a possible outlaw banner exploit all I could find was a banner for dot.tunes which I'm not sure caused anything, but when I clicked on the dot.tunes banner, Site Advisor showed this. Can admin look in to this?
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And he said to the lady, "I love the crushed eggs. Are they yours?
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| Fri Mar 07, 2008 7:19 pm |
 
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Eagle
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Re: Possible Malware Banners Here at the Forums I'll check into it, thanks for the update.
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Chippy
KJ's Leading Pundit
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Re: Possible Malware Banners Here at the Forums Well... that is my thread...
And I do do stupid things to people...
So...
I'm not smart enough to figure out what I just said...
_________________trixster wrote: shut the fuck up zwackerm, you're out of your fucking element trixster wrote: chippy is correct
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dolemit3
child of the 80's
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Re: Possible Malware Banners Here at the Forums Your threads are pure malware. I did get that crap too and thought it was from VGChartz, which I also had opened at the moment. Their's gets attacked frequently.
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bABA
Commander and Chef
Joined: Mon Oct 11, 2004 12:56 am
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Re: Possible Malware Banners Here at the Forums We'll write to google about this. The ads are controlled by them.
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resident
Wall-E
Joined: Thu Feb 17, 2005 5:25 pm
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Re: Possible Malware Banners Here at the Forums I was nearly nailed by a malware banner exploit posted via GoogleAds several months ago on an innocent ROMs site. It made them look bad for a couple of hours. Luckily for me, I had Download Express (download manager) pop up and ask me if I wanted to save the (background drive-by) 'installation' to disk, otherwise it would have installed silently. That was from a GoogleAd banner promoting a phony spyware product and it was yanked by Google within the hour. These malware POS appear to be slipping past reputable companies like Google by changing their name and domain and then buying banner space before the obvious  *quality* again becomes apparent and they are banned. I guess from there on they run on the Trojans.
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And he said to the lady, "I love the crushed eggs. Are they yours?
To which the lady replied, "No. Not the eggs."
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Harry Warden
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Re: Possible Malware Banners Here at the Forums This just happened to me. I hope it isn't a virus on my end.
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Eagle
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Re: Possible Malware Banners Here at the Forums From what I can tell, there is no virus or an real harm being done. The issue seems to be spyware, and I am looking into it and have contacted our ad provider, etc. Obviously this is something we don't want happening, so thank you for pointing it out, we hope to have it fixed shortly.
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resident
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Re: Possible Malware Banners Here at the Forums Thank you for your work.
It's good to know there are people who care.
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And he said to the lady, "I love the crushed eggs. Are they yours?
To which the lady replied, "No. Not the eggs."
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Spidey
Teenage Dream
Joined: Mon Oct 18, 2004 8:13 pm
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Re: Possible Malware Banners Here at the Forums I'm having problems too with Spyware...
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Eagle
Site Owner
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Location: Pittsburgh
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Re: Possible Malware Banners Here at the Forums Spider-Man wrote: I'm having problems too with Spyware... Can you be more descriptive? _________________
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Eagle
Site Owner
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Re: Possible Malware Banners Here at the Forums The issue should be gone, if anyone notices it again, please take note of as much information as possible. A screenshot if possible, and anything else you can think of.
Thanks guys, and sorry about that.
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