By using this site, you agree to our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. Close

Forums - Website Topics - Adware? Really?

I just ran a full system scan with Norton, and it found some adware. There's only one place it could have come from: the one site I don't Adblock, which is VGC.

Not to be rude, but do you actually check ads before putting them up? To remove this thing, I need to update, restart, run a full system scan again and manually delete the file. That is just ridiculous. I'll disable Adblock on VGC again if you assure me that you aren't going to put these malicious ads on the site.



(Former) Lead Moderator and (Eternal) VGC Detective

Around the Network

I've never gotten anything bad from this site....



The ad problem is getting worse on this site.



Is it safe to be here if you have Firefox?



I LOVE ICELAND!

lol you use norton? no wonder it got by to begin with.




Around the Network

Norton is very annoying, you should use some thing else.



 

   PROUD MEMBER OF THE PLAYSTATION 3 : RPG FAN CLUB

 

Could always just block the ads if they're giving you Adware.....



yo_john117 said:

I've never gotten anything bad from this site....

Not that you know of....



Kantor said:

I just ran a full system scan with Norton, and it found some adware. There's only one place it could have come from: the one site I don't Adblock, which is VGC.

Not to be rude, but do you actually check ads before putting them up? To remove this thing, I need to update, restart, run a full system scan again and manually delete the file. That is just ridiculous. I'll disable Adblock on VGC again if you assure me that you aren't going to put these malicious ads on the site.

Lesson learned?



I have the occasional adware and I have this site blocked (along with every other site) so there's always the chance it could have gone from somewhere else...