On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Thom _>^o.o^< <[email protected]> wrote: > The problem I experienced was, AVG gave a warning. Then a pop-up, from some > other, unkown anti-virus claiming that I had all the nasties in my puter. > It then asked for me to scan immediately, when I clicked no, then it wanted > install some type of anti-virus, without the option to click no, so I > allowed the install. I've had this done to me in the past, several time. > When I didn't have puter knowledge, I ended up getting a bunch of trojans, > worms, and such other nasties, then was sending personal info. I tried to > get my anti-virus program to clean out the mess but, ended up having to > reinstall the operating system, which took several hours to reinstall > updates and programs. I guess I should have written a better note about what > I experienced when visited the link. > > Might have been that someone cracked the site? I wouldn't want someone to > have to go through the problems I've experianced in the past. If my > anti-virus program pops up a warning, I then will not try to go on through > the link. Just trying to help others that don't have such computer > knowledge. > > I hope this will help people without the knowledge, for Identity theft is > what these people want from you. It's with this type of experience I hope > others will take to heart.
Most likely someone embedded a pop-up in one of the ads on the site; I'm still getting no warnings there at all, but webcomicsnation.com is currently flagged as an attack site. -- Mike Hungerford http://www.chthulhu.com/ {Insert witticism here.} -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Papermodels II" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/papermodels?hl=en.
