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Virus from ad on this site

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Mon Dec 07, 2009 11:25 am
by The PonyGrad
My AV just gave me my second alert while viewing PF in a week. Apparently this is some ad that contains a trojan. Just thought you may want to know and hopefully do something about it.

Re: Virus from ad on this site

Posted:
Mon Dec 07, 2009 11:31 am
by mustangnation
got the same thing. I have also noticed popups on the site that I did not use to get.
Re: Virus from ad on this site

Posted:
Mon Dec 07, 2009 11:32 am
by smupony94
Pops ups are a real annoyance now. I don't want to make money working from home for Google.
Re: Virus from ad on this site

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Mon Dec 07, 2009 11:32 am
by Phxfan
I am getting this too. Constant pop ups.
Re: Virus from ad on this site

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Mon Dec 07, 2009 11:50 am
by Phxfan
Someone is attacking this site. Really.
Re: Virus from ad on this site

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Mon Dec 07, 2009 11:56 am
by SmooPower
Looking into it. Any more details would help (what virus, what popup).
Re: Virus from ad on this site

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Mon Dec 07, 2009 11:58 am
by SMU2007
If you are using firefox, look up a plugin called adblock. It is great
Re: Virus from ad on this site

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Mon Dec 07, 2009 11:58 am
by RGV Pony
94 hit it on the head. The Dave's work at home blog is usually popped up somewhere when things go awry.
And my computer's not supposed to have to battle such demons...I'm a mac!
Re: Virus from ad on this site

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Mon Dec 07, 2009 12:02 pm
by Pony_Fan
Re: Virus from ad on this site

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Mon Dec 07, 2009 12:03 pm
by smupony94
SMU2007 wrote:If you are using firefox, look up a plugin called adblock. It is great
I use Firefox and it still gets around it
Re: Virus from ad on this site

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Mon Dec 07, 2009 12:08 pm
by SMU2007
smupony94 wrote:SMU2007 wrote:If you are using firefox, look up a plugin called adblock. It is great
I use Firefox and it still gets around it
you downloaded and installed the add on? It's not the regular popup blocker that comes with firefox
Re: Virus from ad on this site

Posted:
Mon Dec 07, 2009 12:09 pm
by The PonyGrad
AV software permitted "block connection" and when I clicked that the ad at the top showed a failure to connect error.
Re: Virus from ad on this site

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Mon Dec 07, 2009 12:10 pm
by smupony94
SMU2007 wrote:smupony94 wrote:SMU2007 wrote:If you are using firefox, look up a plugin called adblock. It is great
I use Firefox and it still gets around it
you downloaded and installed the add on? It's not the regular popup blocker that comes with firefox
Ah, did not know it was an add-on. Thanks. Will get it now.
Re: Virus from ad on this site

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Mon Dec 07, 2009 12:11 pm
by BRStang
I've been getting the "Dave works from home" popup for a while now. This weekend, though, I got something worse when I clicked on the football forum--I started getting the SAME popup and it kept multiplying to where it opened like 40 new windows on my computer screen before I could shut it down. I kept closing the windows, but it would keep multiplying. I think the "website" that would popup kept saying something like "coachupdate.com" or something similar. I finally had to just shut my computer down. It has not returned thank goodness. My virus software hopefully got it, but I don't know.
Re: Virus from ad on this site

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Mon Dec 07, 2009 12:13 pm
by smupony94
Opened and closed the site multiple times and I am all good now. I used to get them from the DMN and now I don't.