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Geek Culture / Wixawin Hell!

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bergice
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Location: Oslo,Norway
Posted: 18th Aug 2008 12:13
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Have any of you got this popup virus?

Sometimes it pops up a stupid ad, its really annoying!

I think they send it to you by mail.

DO NOT READ IT!

If you read the name Wixawin then dont click it.

I think i accidently clicked the email and therefore i now got happy popus each hour...

I think i will be able to fix it as there are so many people with this problem.

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Aaron Miller
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Playing: osu!
Posted: 18th Aug 2008 12:19
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Why were you reading spam?

I'm not a dictator to those that do stuff for me by will. Only those who don't.
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bergice
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Location: Oslo,Norway
Posted: 18th Aug 2008 13:35
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It wasnt in the junkbox.

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Van B
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Joined: 8th Oct 2002
Location: Sunnyvale
Posted: 18th Aug 2008 13:51
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I suggest giving this program a try...

http://www.malwarebytes.org/

It's free version is fully functional, and it managed to get rid of some real nasty spyware at work, the kind that IT departments dread and noobs love to click their mouses all-over. The words I dread are ''It asked me if I want to open it so I clicked...''


Health, Ammo, and bacon and eggs!
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bergice
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Posted: 18th Aug 2008 15:07
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That seems like a good program Van B, its scanning now.

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Benjamin
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Location: France
Posted: 18th Aug 2008 16:05
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What kind of crappy e-mail service do you use where you can download and execute a virus just by reading an e-mail?

Multisync - TCP Server/Client Multiplayer Plugin (DBP/DBCe)
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Alucard94
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Location: Stockholm, Sweden.
Posted: 18th Aug 2008 16:45
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Quote: "What kind of crappy e-mail service do you use where you can download and execute a virus just by reading an e-mail?
"

Isn't that how keyloggers are distributed? Although I might be completely wrong but I think I've heard it somewhere.


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dark coder
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Location: Japan
Posted: 18th Aug 2008 17:08
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They are distributed by morons clicking stupid links saying, hey click here to add this hot girl to MSN(cough, here have I heard this?), and downloading a virus. The only exception to this is IE6 which before any updates would allow websites to auto-download and execute exes which was an amazingly boneheaded feature. But these days, as long as you check to see a link doesn't point to a .exe or an exe doesn't download without you expecting it to, and you especially don't download or run any suspect .exes you should be fine. Ah well, we'll call it the natural selection of the cyber world.

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bergice
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Location: Oslo,Norway
Posted: 18th Aug 2008 22:21
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I was going up to a friend to play soft gun war and he also had he virus

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