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Ashbless
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Because I Can.

Anyway would you mind doing me a favour, please? And that's to say "So long and thanks for all the posts" to matazone from me (I don't want to go back there because each time I do Norton tells me that a program called Winfixer has infested my computer. So I spend the next few hours looking for the bloody thing only to find that it's not there. Which is bloody annoying)


I haven't noticed this myself but apparently he has. Has anyone else?
Mata
I've not had anything try to attack either of the machines I use to access the forums, and I ran a malware and virus scan only a couple of days ago so if anything had slipped through my browser then it would have been picked up then.

My conclusion: that's Norton trying to make the user feel like they've been saved from some mystery attack again.

EDIT: To be on the safe side, I've checked the board code, and there's nothing sneaking in there either. I really don't think that there's anything on here.
froggle-rock
I used to get some Winfix (ha! Be I Mac user) thingymajig telling me I needed to download it from a site when I looked at the Myspace site a month or so back, but it's stopped now,. 'Tis rather anyoying though, as it would open up unwanted browser windows.
Mata
The advertisers on this site should not be using pop-ups, and if they are I want to know about it. Has anyone else had that happening on here?
froggle-rock
QUOTE (Mata @ Aug 18 2006, 04:35 PM) *
The advertisers on this site should not be using pop-ups, and if they are I want to know about it. Has anyone else had that happening on here?


Not on this site darling, when I used MySpace.
Mata
Oops, I meant 'other than BIC', not your funky self. I wasn't very clear in my post who I was talking about, sorry!
Ashbless
But, but, BIC never complained about pop-ups.

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Mata
I suspect that it's a pop-up that tries to automatically install itself, prompting the Norton response.

Given the lack of anyone else having this problem, I can only assume that it must be something on BIC's computer. Get BIC to run a full spyware and virus scan.
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