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About the Ads
Due to the overwhelming load of bad ads that the other ad companies have been delivering to us, I have reverted the site back to using only google ads. While not having the diversity of multiple ad companies might hurt us in the short term, I am worried about that harm that the pop-ups, redirects, and other bad things that the other ad companies have been doing will affect us worse in the long term.

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calliopes_pen
2008-06-01 02:25 pm UTC (link)

Yeah, a Trojan (something called Vundo?) apparently got through last Sunday and let in a lot of other junk through before I found out. Now, I'm getting tons of pop-ups every few minutes--including the most disgusting porn ones there could possibly be.

I have no clue what to do to fix it. I got rid of Black Ice, and whatever other firewall I had since it never alerted me to anything--replaced it with McAfee, which is actually letting me know stuff. Doesn't help the problem already there, though.

Dad will probably have to reformat the hard drive or something.

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up_periscope
2008-06-07 09:00 pm UTC (link)

I got a Trojan from here too. Whenever I'd log in, a whole bunch of huge, black bugs would literally start crawling all over my screen. I'd scream every time it would happen, because I wasn't expecting it. Here's how I cleaned it up though.

I got this, which is free, and ran the scan. After, it wouldn't find it, but I had it up to protect my computer. Then, one day when I started up the computer again, the bugs came out as did this popup that said to get a Maleware software or whatever. I knew this was the Trojan, but since my computer was protected, I told it to run anyway. So, the virus software was able to pick up on it the next time it ran the scan.

Hope this helps!

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	calliopes_pen 2008-06-08 12:22 pm UTC (link)
	Thanks for the link, even if I don't need it now. I got everything fixed myself, using McAfee and Webroot Spy Sweeper. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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