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RomUlation gave my a virus (sorry if it's in the wrong board)

Discussion in 'Site Support' started by AetherMaster, Jan 19, 2008.

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  1. AetherMaster

    AetherMaster Well-Known Member

    When I went to the homepage of RomUlation, the "RomUlation is brought to you by:" page came up. It didn't load. Rather, Internet Explorer showed that it loaded about 33 files. My anti-virus detected 3 viruses. Also, I couldn't close out of Internet Explorer. I had to use Windows task manager. Even that took a long time to get it to close. Any idea why this happened? I'm not sure I trust going on the homepage now :-\

    EDIT: This has happened twice. I forgot about the first time, which happened earlier this month.
     
    AetherMaster, Jan 19, 2008
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  2. airsoft1117

    airsoft1117 Well-Known Member

    Quick question, why were you using internet explorer?
     
    airsoft1117, Jan 19, 2008
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  3. AetherMaster

    AetherMaster Well-Known Member

    That's the browser I like best. (Sad, I know.)
     
    AetherMaster, Jan 19, 2008
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  4. conjy

    conjy Well-Known Member

    Use Firefox or IE7Pro, and a AD Blocker if you get this problem again.
    Its probably not Romulation itself but one of the ads, probably trying to open a java window or something stupid like that.
     
    conjy, Jan 19, 2008
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  5. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    give us as much detail about the ad as you can, and we will report it.

    Also there is no reason to use internet explorer. it is insecure and broken, use firefox with an IE theme.
     
    Loonylion, Jan 19, 2008
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  6. Seph

    Seph Administrator Staff Member

    Damnit stop telling people which browser to use, it's personal preference and if people like IE7 best then they'll use that.

    It's important to note that while a virus might have been added to your temporary internet files it can't actually be executed unless your version of IE is outdated and insecure, it's not enough that it's simply on the computer, it needs to be run too.

    Also give us more details, there's no way I can report the ad when I don't know which one it is...
     
    Seph, Jan 19, 2008
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  7. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    He never said he was using IE 7. He said IE, and the behavior sounds more like IE6 than 7
     
    Loonylion, Jan 19, 2008
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  8. Almo

    Almo Well-Known Member

    ^ is it not likely that one of your ads used a cookie that his AV picked up as a bad cookie and filed under virus? it may have been nothing to worry about.
     
    Almo, Jan 19, 2008
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  9. jc_106

    jc_106 Well-Known Member

    however, it's best to prevent it than prove it.
     
    jc_106, Jan 19, 2008
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  10. AetherMaster

    AetherMaster Well-Known Member

    Sorry for the late reply. It's Internet Explorer 7, yes. And now I feel stupid. I don't know which ad it was.

    EDIT: Actually, it was no ad. It just loaded a white screen. That's when my anti-virus said it found 3 viruses.
     
    AetherMaster, Jan 19, 2008
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  11. Seph

    Seph Administrator Staff Member

    It's not impossible to embed a virus into a HTML page such that a website would pick it up, however, the chance of it getting executed are minor.
     
    Seph, Jan 19, 2008
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  12. Warren_303

    Warren_303 Well-Known Member

    I got a virus when I downloaded a weird unknown file and double clicked on the .exe file.

    Isn't that weird? ::)

    I'm joking, m-kay.
     
    Warren_303, Jan 19, 2008
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  13. AetherMaster

    AetherMaster Well-Known Member

    Ok, my computer isn't acting up, so they didn't execute. Thanks for the help.
     
    AetherMaster, Jan 19, 2008
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  14. ray13j

    ray13j Well-Known Member

    I had the same thing couple days ago it was an ad about scanning something and avg blocked it
     
    ray13j, Aug 16, 2009
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  15. jadster 1996

    jadster 1996 Well-Known Member

    My case is worse,i went to my homepage and then got a screen that said a virus that threatens your computer was found and said something about scanning then showed me a window with scanning but what was strange is that it showed windows XP while I had vista i did a scan with many AVs but nothing was found it turned out to be an add to get you to download an av.
     
    jadster 1996, Aug 16, 2009
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  16. Born2killx

    Born2killx Well-Known Member

    I call those the idiot catchers. As in, if you're dumb enough to download their antivirus, you should get off of my Internets.
     
    Born2killx, Aug 16, 2009
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  17. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    the proper term is 'scareware'. More than likely the so-called antivirus is itself a virus or trojan.
     
    Loonylion, Aug 17, 2009
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  18. gameboy5.0

    gameboy5.0 Well-Known Member

    well this is one of the few safe site you will ever find i use it a lot and ihave no proplems. i reasd post and sound likes it is solve. but if i where you i scanne computer a few times to make sure that the virus or what ever it was is gone.

    hay it might be worth going from internet explore to fire fox or safire
     
    gameboy5.0, Aug 26, 2009
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  19. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    You mean Safari. And yes, anything is better than IE.
     
    Loonylion, Aug 26, 2009
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  20. gameboy5.0

    gameboy5.0 Well-Known Member

    yha that what trying to spell lol (i get lazy at night) they work faster and are more easy to work with. hell safari is made for mac and works on pc it relly good lol
     
    gameboy5.0, Aug 26, 2009
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