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Forums - Website Topics - Vgchartz sending me/you malware???

So if you like me dont have adblock, vgchartz redirects you sometimes to random ad websites. I thought i'd do a test and hopefully an engineer can look into it, I downloaded a virtual windows xp onto my pc and malwarebytes anti malware.

I ran malware bytes, and it scanned 0 errors or problems. fine. I then opened IE (pre-installed) and spent about 5 mins just reading posts, only on vgchartz (so didnt go out of it to n4g or something else) and then closed my browser and ran malwarebytes again, this time 4 errors.

This was a clean install of windows xp, and the errors were nothing to do with cookies etc. they were malware. Only because I enjoy going on vgchartz am I posting this and hoping someone will check it out.

For reference, I have done the exact same thing before to other sites, including ones I made myself to check and they've come out clean, so for what it's worth I hope I was some help.

Peace //



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so use a normal browser and antiscript app



Yup. I keep getting pushed to a fake 'update your Java' page on my PC (Win 7, Firefox latest).

I love reading the forums but technically speaking, this site is absolutely awful.



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This site is horrendous without adblock. Completely unacceptable.



Sigs are dumb. And so are you!

generic-user-1 said:
so use a normal browser and antiscript app


You shouldn't make exceptions for one site, there shouldn't be bad adware in the first place 



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Yeah, VGChartz with ads is bad. Whenever I use it on Wii U I always get popups



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Strange all I get are Mario Kart 8 ads.



Its even worse on mobile. I use safari on my ipad to do most of my interent surfing, and every time i click on a page on vgchartz, I get redirected to the app store. Stupid farm games and what not. Couple of times it even came up with porn apps.



Adameh said:
Yeah, VGChartz with ads is bad. Whenever I use it on Wii U I always get popups


On Wii U I do not get popups but it is sometimes awfully slow - like REALLY slow. 



VGC browsing on anything other than a PC with adblock and anti-malware is unadvisable...