Jeff S 0 Posted July 11, 2008 Share Posted July 11, 2008 (edited) I must be lucky or something... I never (touch wood) get popups and find anything other than the occasional tracking cookie. So here is my question. What sites are you guys going to and what are you downloading???? Comeon be honest Edited July 11, 2008 by Jeff S Jeff Piscator non solum piscatur. Yellow Prowler13 Ask me at 75... Link to post Share on other sites
chevin 0 Posted July 11, 2008 Share Posted July 11, 2008 I must be lucky or something... I never (touch wood) get popups and find anything other than the occasional tracking cookie. So here is my question. What sites are you guys going to and what are you downloading???? Comeon be honest I don't know that I visit any sites or download anything that would be considered to be risky but I sure as hell get a lot of spyware in my computer, some of which can make it do pretty flakey things at times. Unless you do frequent scans to eradicate stuff like that you may never know it's there but one day it will turn round and bite you - often just after you have downloaded or installed a new programme of some kind. *********************************************************** Politicians are not responsible for a country's rise to greatness; The people are. The people are not responsible for a country's fall to mediocrity; the politicians are. Link to post Share on other sites
Jeff S 0 Posted July 11, 2008 Author Share Posted July 11, 2008 (edited) I only run symantec internet security 2008 (virus updates once a week with full system scan) and that is behind my routers firewall. IE7 has a popup blocker.. But I don't frequent hacker or porn sites either. Of course I haven't been in any accidents lately in the car.. Oh well. Nevermind. I'm more likely to have my accounts broken into and my identity stolen.. Not that I need any more excitement.. With the world ending in August maybe I should max all my credit cards too... Edited July 11, 2008 by Jeff S Jeff Piscator non solum piscatur. Yellow Prowler13 Ask me at 75... Link to post Share on other sites
ColinW 0 Posted July 11, 2008 Share Posted July 11, 2008 Everything bad that has ever got onto my PC at home has been put there by the kids! The one good thing about that bloatware Vista is that it is now very hard for them to do this. Add ons to MSN and IE Toolbars were the biggest culprit. If a kid was presented with the message "Do you accept the installation of 100 pieces of Adware included with this highly useful cartoon message? (Yes/No)" they would select Yes! Link to post Share on other sites
Andy_1984 275 Posted July 11, 2008 Share Posted July 11, 2008 (edited) with my experiences it always happens when ive used explorer. it can be a totaly legit and friendly website but whos owners do not care about the adverts they put on their website which causes all the problems. it can be as easy as yahoo.com allowing some 3rd party advertising company to install a toolbar for IE and from that little toolbar the people who created it allow other companies to hit you with popup adverts and from those popup adverts you get yet another toolbar if not worse plus what collin said, ive seen this on my mates computer and had to rid it of the adware hundreds of times. it always seems to be these sparkly screensavers and msn plus other than that i got hit with alot of adware by going to prn websites using IE, since i got firefox i can download all the prn i want Edited July 11, 2008 by Andy_1984 Owner of Tacklesack.co.uk Moderator at The-Pikers-Pit.co.uk Link to post Share on other sites
Chris Goddard 3 Posted July 12, 2008 Share Posted July 12, 2008 As has been said I have not had ANY sort of infiltration since I started to use FireFox as my browser. I had to use IE last week for Vistaprint. But scanned right away to be sure! So I would have to say using IE is the problem. And I have recently used a porn site AND paid $2.38 to join it!! (It was actually a P2P site payment disguised as a porn pass payment!!! HONEST INJUN BOSS!!!! Chris GoddardIt is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.If GOD had NOT meant us to go fishing, WHY did he give us arms then?? (If you can't help out someone in need then don't bother my old Dad always said! My grandma put it a LITTLE more, well different! It's like peeing yourself in a black pair of pants she said! It gives you a LOVELY warm feeling but no-one really notices!)) Link to post Share on other sites
Jeff S 0 Posted July 12, 2008 Author Share Posted July 12, 2008 HONEST INJUN BOSS!!!! So whatcher sayin is there are multiple meanings for "popup"? Jeff Piscator non solum piscatur. Yellow Prowler13 Ask me at 75... Link to post Share on other sites
chevin 0 Posted July 13, 2008 Share Posted July 13, 2008 I rarely use any browser other than Avant and I don't go to porn sites or free music sites, any music I download I pay for at iTunes. I don't know where I get the spyware from, but unlike adware, it doesn't show its self. As far as I can see you don't know you have it until a) it starts buggering things up or you find it in a scan. I used to have Symantec but I dumped it and I have now bought Panda. I don't remember Symantec ever alerting me to the fact that I had spyware in my computer, but Panda frequently finds it and eradicates it for me. Try one of the free spyware trackers and see what it finds. You might be surprised. *********************************************************** Politicians are not responsible for a country's rise to greatness; The people are. The people are not responsible for a country's fall to mediocrity; the politicians are. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest sandpipper Posted July 13, 2008 Share Posted July 13, 2008 Ive downloaded all the lastest films also any programs that i dont want to pay for and if i feel like watching porn one night i do, and if ive got to use an email address i use a bogus one i set up years ago. and i never get any problems Link to post Share on other sites
Ken Davison South Wales 1 Posted July 13, 2008 Share Posted July 13, 2008 I use IE without any problems, I also have a subcription version of AVG and I use CCleaner. Vista currently appears to be security mad even issuing warnings when installing MS products. I fish, I catches a few, I lose a few, BUT I enjoys. Anglers Trust PM http://www.petalsgardencenter.com Petals Florist Link to post Share on other sites
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