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Virus on MacInsiders chat??? WHY?

 
Old 01-28-2012 at 07:27 PM   #1
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Virus on MacInsiders chat??? WHY?
Trojan alert after i cliked on the "I'm bored" button in chat?? really?? is it always like that?? yyyyyyyyyyyyy
Old 01-28-2012 at 07:45 PM   #2
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Don't worry about it, it happened last month whenever i visited mi. You don't have a virus, it's something related to the ads in here.

Chad talked about it already:
http://www.macinsiders.com/showthrea...t=trojan+alert
Old 01-28-2012 at 09:57 PM   #3
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Oh... TW, when you asked me what the "I'm Bored" button does and I said to just click it, I wasn't trying to send you a virus. I wasn't aware of that. The "I'm Bored" button usually leads you to the Game of the Day.
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Old 01-28-2012 at 10:04 PM   #4
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Hey, at least having to deal with a false positive alleviated your boredom, right?

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Old 01-29-2012 at 12:03 AM   #5
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We can't be sure that its a 'false positive' though. The ads generated use various scripts linking to various sites that are not under full control of this website's admin. Its likely that there are no viruses involved, but don't be too sure about that. Chad's not trying to screw with our computers, but the ad suppliers could be..

And if you're interested, the 'im bored' button is a little 'robot unicorn'-type game.
Old 01-30-2012 at 10:48 PM   #6
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Hey guys. Thanks for letting me know this. There was a certain advertiser we were loading on the pages that was causing the problem. That page I had forgot to change the ad code on. Try now, it shouldn't show you that message anymore.

The 'Im Bored' button loads up the MacInsiders cave run game



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