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blazerv82 wrote:

avast, the newest version of your browser, ad block plus, and an add-on that stops you from being tracked (ghostery or something similar; i use do not track plus)
and there you go
no worries

Tracking dosen't matter about GETTING ads it stops them from being relevant. Otherwise, I completely agree with you. I'm not against ghostery, my friends dad is really high up there.

16Skittles wrote:

Please don't make me explain this again. I LOVE Mac hardware. If I had the money, I would buy a MacBook Pro.
I HATE the Mac trolls. Have a computer problem? Herp Derp spend $2000 on a Mac.

conflict

gxl wrote:

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Have I made my point? XD

No.

Because there was no point.

3DSfan12345 wrote:

16Skittles wrote:

Please don't make me explain this again. I LOVE Mac hardware. If I had the money, I would buy a MacBook Pro.
I HATE the Mac trolls. Have a computer problem? Herp Derp spend $2000 on a Mac.

conflict

Umm what and was it really so important that you needed to bump the thread from obscurity?

Andres-Vander wrote:

Speaking of deviant art, does this virus have something to do with making your account favourite fat furry pictures? That's what happened to me earlier this week

I think you did that on your own will Vander!

Andres-Vander wrote:

Speaking of deviant art, does this virus have something to do with making your account favourite fat furry pictures? That's what happened to me earlier this week

not to me. it restarted my computer and now google doesn't work.

samid11 wrote:

Andres-Vander wrote:

Speaking of deviant art, does this virus have something to do with making your account favourite fat furry pictures? That's what happened to me earlier this week

not to me. it restarted my computer and now google doesn't work.

Boot into safe mode with networking. Then install MalwareBytes and ANY other antivirus other than Norton. Also, disable Norton because it could block MalwareBytes. You can reenable it later. Run MalwareBytes. Do a scan. Remove the virus. Reboot into normal mode. Problem solved. Reactivate Norton if you must. I still think you should get Avast though.

Andres-Vander wrote:

Anime3000 wrote:

Andres-Vander wrote:

Speaking of deviant art, does this virus have something to do with making your account favourite fat furry pictures? That's what happened to me earlier this week

I think you did that on your own will Vander!

Excuse me?

LOL

three words

ad block plus

GameHutSoftware wrote:

cheddargirl wrote:

samid11 wrote:

Ok, so we all know that websites can have viruses. However, I've noticed CRAZY virus activity on deviantART, a website that most of you have accounts on. Even I have an account. Just minutes ago, I was on DA when my norton 360 scanner detected a HIGH RISK virus trying to crash my computer. It restarted my computer an alerted me of the virus and that the virus was prevented. I looked to see where the virus came from, and there, on the "Source of problem" list was DeviantART. From now on I will only check my DA account over my 3DS internet. Those of you who DON'T have norton 360 and have a DA account, QUIT NOW. PLEASE!!!

It's not just dA, it's pretty much every website with ads. A while back, a lot of dA member were infected with malware and viruses because of a certain malicious ad. The incident wasn't isolated to dA, though, my computer also got infected at one point when I was on another website running the same ad.

There's been a lot of complaints because of it. The really simplest way to deal with the issue is for the dA staff to simply remove the ads, but the staff decided to to put in a system for people to report ads (a system which I find ridiculous since you'll end up reporting the ad only after your computer manages to get struck) because the ads bring in some revenue - at the same time, though, many dA users like myself have resorted to using things like AdBlock to not see the ads, which is a big backfire. dA might as well remove the ads anyway, or they have to more aggressive in their ad screening process if they desperately want the ads to be viewed again for revenue reasons.

use ghostery
so amazing

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Harakou wrote:

What, might I ask, does it say the infection is? Antivirus software will at times catch false-positives or other relatively innocuous things such as tracking cookies. I remember that one time my old antivirus seemed to think that MS Silverlight was malware. It happens. 

Yeah... My antivirus wouldn't let me on equestriadaily or scratchr.com.

Dinoclor wrote:

samid11 wrote:

Andres-Vander wrote:

Speaking of deviant art, does this virus have something to do with making your account favourite fat furry pictures? That's what happened to me earlier this week

not to me. it restarted my computer and now google doesn't work.

Boot into safe mode with networking. Then install MalwareBytes and ANY other antivirus other than Norton. Also, disable Norton because it could block MalwareBytes. You can reenable it later. Run MalwareBytes. Do a scan. Remove the virus. Reboot into normal mode. Problem solved. Reactivate Norton if you must. I still think you should get Avast though.

I could not agree more. I'm still going to add a string of nines, though.

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