| flanker7 |
07-28-2012 07:38 PM |
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Originally Posted by Charlie Drizzle
(Post 1277592)
I won't say positively that the site is the cause but if not, it's a strange coincidence. I also visited the link this morning around 4:30 AM. Norton 360 advised me of an attempt to attack my computer and closed Internet Explorer. As I tried to re-open IE I started having problems. I had a new program called 'Live Security Platinum' with a shield similar to Microsoft's pop up trying to get me to subscribe, advising me of issues, and planting itself on my taskbar. I tried to run 'msconfig' to remove the program from the Start-Up task bar. I could not run ANY .exe programs. Norton 360 was continually advising me that it was having to block attempts. When I viewed the details in the Norton history it said it was blocking Trojans called 'Gen.2' and 'zeroaccess'. I'm not computer illiterate, been working with them since the early 80's with AT&T. I was finally able to backdoor my way to Norton Support and agreed to pay $99 for the removal. I watched as they worked from 7:30 AM until just before noon, over 4 hours, going through at least a dozen reboots before finally getting rid of the Trojans. They were first found in Windows/Installer and last found in Application Data. This is the first virus issues I've had in many years. If the site was not the cause then it was a really strange coincidence.
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OK, thanks for sharing your experience. I don't want this thread to to turn into an argument about the legitimacy about tonybatman.com, a site I have nothing to do with an can therefore I cannot personally verify as legit. All I can say is that I visit that site off and on somewhat regularly, and nothing like that has ever happened.
Also, the guy who runs that site is one of the MC's at Nudes a Poppin, and he's a reasonably big fish in the relatively small pond of adult events (expos, stripper contests, etc). I find it doubtful that he would do all that stuff, and base his livelihood on his adult news web site, and then rig it to install malware on your computer.
Over the years here and at other sites, I've occasionally seen discussions pop up where someone says a link is bad, others say it's fine, then someone else says it's bad, and so on. I have no idea how a link that could be problematic for some could be harmless for others.
All I know is that guy who tend to visit a lot of adult sites get bad stuff on their computers. It happens. Whether or not it came from that site, I can't say for sure, so if you don't want to risk it, don't visit it. |
