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When words such as these appear, they sometimes become a link to an ad? Me, or the forums? Does anyone else get this?

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Spambots make posts with links to ads in random words, yes. The forum doesn't do that. Just report posts like that and a moderator will delete them and ban the spambot.

Ahhh... Almost every post I see has some kind of ad in it :0

Can you give us a screenshot? It could be anything from people posting ads to your internet provider inserting them into the web pages you view (yeah, some ISPs do that).

Dan Duncombe wrote:When words such as these appear, they sometimes become a link to an ad? Me, or the forums? Does anyone else get this?

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Sounds like youv'e got malware mate.

Dangit! just found out... got Discount Buddy malware... shit.

Jordach wrote:

Dan Duncombe wrote:When words such as these appear, they sometimes become a link to an ad? Me, or the forums? Does anyone else get this?

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Sounds like youv'e got malware mate.

Dan Duncombe wrote:Dangit! just found out... got Discount Buddy malware... shit.

Jordach wrote:

Dan Duncombe wrote:When words such as these appear, they sometimes become a link to an ad? Me, or the forums? Does anyone else get this?

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Sounds like youv'e got malware mate.

Glad I helped. I've been through that bastard called Delta Search. What. A. Cunt. To remove.

I had delta search too! And dealply, and a bunch of other crap :o

Jordach wrote:

Dan Duncombe wrote:Dangit! just found out... got Discount Buddy malware... shit.

Jordach wrote:Sounds like youv'e got malware mate.

Glad I helped. I've been through that bastard called Delta Search. What. A. Cunt. To remove.

Dan Duncombe wrote:I had delta search too! And dealply, and a bunch of other crap :o

Jordach wrote:

Dan Duncombe wrote:Dangit! just found out... got Discount Buddy malware... shit.

Glad I helped. I've been through that bastard called Delta Search. What. A. Cunt. To remove.

My suggestion is remove stuff you want to keep and NUKE WINDOWS AND RE-INSTALL.

Dan Duncombe wrote:I had delta search too! And dealply, and a bunch of other crap :o

FYI: I've been running Linux (Fedora) now for over 6 months (on-line daily with 12 Mbps) with no anti-malware software, just a firewall. Zero, repeat, zero issues with malware.

darkskyabove wrote:

Dan Duncombe wrote:I had delta search too! And dealply, and a bunch of other crap :o

FYI: I've been running Linux (Fedora) now for over 6 months (on-line daily with 12 Mbps) with no anti-malware software, just a firewall. Zero, repeat, zero issues with malware.

^ Same (except that it was Debian)

I have dual boot windows/Linux, but whenever I run Linux (12.10 Ubuntu) I just get a message saying that there has been a severe software problem, then it runs really slowly.

Dan Duncombe wrote:I have dual boot windows/Linux, but whenever I run Linux (12.10 Ubuntu) I just get a message saying that there has been a severe software problem, then it runs really slowly.

Final suggestion: freeware apps such as uTorrent like to hide things like that in their installers. Avoid iLivid and other "free" file downloaders. If the installer says, do you want to install this 'malware', kill the installer.

I have never gone near iLivid, I don't trust it, and never will. When I download a file I now always run a Norton scan on it to make sure it is less likely to be bad, and I always go for the custom install with installers, to try and make sure that there is no malware being installed.

I'm just going to leave this here..

Lol... Complete fail! Bet they did it on purpose. I have seen a lot of comments like these recently...

Dan Duncombe wrote:Lol... Complete fail! Bet they did it on purpose. I have seen a lot of comments like these recently...

Thats not a comment, that a report.
Its the text that gets sent to the moderators inbox when you click "Report"

Dan Duncombe wrote:I have never gone near iLivid, I don't trust it, and never will. When I download a file I now always run a Norton scan on it to make sure it is less likely to be bad, and I always go for the custom install with installers, to try and make sure that there is no malware being installed.

Even if you click: 'I don't want it.' some continue anyway without giving a damn.

darkskyabove wrote:

Dan Duncombe wrote:I had delta search too! And dealply, and a bunch of other crap :o

FYI: I've been running Linux (Fedora) now for over 6 months (on-line daily with 12 Mbps) with no anti-malware software, just a firewall. Zero, repeat, zero issues with malware.

My Win xp are malware-proof. I modelled them by my image (they are ugly)

nomohakon wrote:

darkskyabove wrote:

Dan Duncombe wrote:I had delta search too! And dealply, and a bunch of other crap :o

FYI: I've been running Linux (Fedora) now for over 6 months (on-line daily with 12 Mbps) with no anti-malware software, just a firewall. Zero, repeat, zero issues with malware.

My Win xp are malware-proof. I modelled them by my image (they are ugly)

*coughs loudly* You want to tell me Windows XP is malware-proof?

property management bat wrote:-snip-

OMFG.

Yep. Second random spam on this forum thread :|

Jordach wrote:

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OMFG.