Malicious links?
TappedOut forum
Posted on May 27, 2015, 2:19 a.m. by Servo_Token
Hey guys,
So just now, I clickity clicked up on that home page button up top, and was given a popup window that chrome identified as potentially malicious. Not sure if it's on the part of a particular user, some clever attacker, or if I'm just bad at the internet, but I thought you ought to know. Didn't check it out, but was given a warning of potentially...bad... material that was available for download or whatever.
I had this happen to me too, but I'm on a Mac, so I figured fuck it and went to the link. It was one of those spam "watch this movie" things. Probably related to the spam issues we had a couple weeks ago.
May 27, 2015 3:26 a.m.
Cobthecobbler says... #6
The only time I've ever experienced on-click ads here is when my computer was infected with browser adware/spyware.
My solution is to look through your list of programs/apps and delete anything that isn't immediately recognized by you as something you've downloaded or something important, such as anything with a Microsoft/Apple license. Then go into your browsers plug-ins/extensions/toolbars (depending on what browser you're using) and check for anything out of the ordinary (Exstrasavings, PCPnAPP, etc). If these do exist on your system, delete them.
I would like to add however, that some of the ads across the site in the past were malicious, but I have only seen relevant, safe ads as of late
May 27, 2015 9:32 a.m.
This also happened to me. It seems to only do it in t/o... It's some add site. Something along the lines of: youraddexchange.com.... Wil screenshot it the next time.
VampireArmy says... #2
This has also happened to be on occasion. I had assumed it was my computer
May 27, 2015 2:41 a.m.