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bardicverse on 30 August 2009

On the main page, a popup telling me that my computer may be infected popped up. I force quite my firefox, because I know this is a malware scam. Restarted, and it brought up their "antivirus" page on bootup.

Might want to check your advertiser sources.



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nordlead on 30 August 2009

e-mail ioi with as much info as possible. Posting in the forums may get lucky, but an e-mail is guaranteed he'll see it. Just make sure you have a good subject line.




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c03n3nj0 on 30 August 2009

I read Bowser, and was totally expecting something  else.





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johnsobas on 30 August 2009
bardicverse said:

On the main page, a popup telling me that my computer may be infected popped up. I force quite my firefox, because I know this is a malware scam. Restarted, and it brought up their "antivirus" page on bootup.

Might want to check your advertiser sources.

had the same thing happen to me.



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sc94597 on 30 August 2009

Yep had this too. Only happened twice though. Usually I'm tolerant of ads, but when things start to redirect my web page, or take me to a hijacking site I drop using the site. This is probably my favorite site though, so of course I wouldn't do that.



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dsister44 on 30 August 2009

Let us all blame DGC again xD



dtewi on 30 August 2009

I knew that Hello Kitty ad was up to no good.



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sc94597 on 30 August 2009
Soriku said:

You could try adblocking it. If it's gonna mess up your computer I don't see any reason why you don't have a right to do that. But emailing ioi helps too.

Adblocking doesn't work for this ad. Also isn't it against the rules to mention it?



Pyramid Head on 30 August 2009

runnin firefox no ads show ever for me really



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sc94597 on 30 August 2009
Soriku said:

Are you sure? Don't see why it wouldn't work...

Also, adblocking is against the rules but if it's gonna mess up your PC I don't see what's the harm in adblocking one ad. What's better, screwing up your computer and not having you on VGC for a while and wasting your time and losing the site some revenue if you were going to go on VGC initially, or not losing much revenue on a single stupid ad temporarily until ioi is notified while having everything else unblocked?

But if ioi is notified it'll be taken care of.

It isn't too much of an ad, more than it redirects your browser to a different URL. I've seen this on many sites before. It is a page that is suppose to look like the "My Computer" directory, and then it tells you that you have "x" number of viruses... Download our program to clean them. It probably doesn't screw up your computer either. It is most likely a fake anti virus software where they try to get you to buy it, and therefore scam you.