Viruses aquired from this site on forum...

[PaulIcemanMc]

I logged in yesterday and went to the offtopic forum where I saw a post about Julia Roberts, off course being curious I bit. Bad Mistake I got 4 viruses and spam that embedded itself on my laptop. This is really not what I expect of this site. Maybe you should have paying members before you can post because most thieves will not purchase a membership to try and defraud another individual...

I was going to cost me $200+/- just to get rid of those, but fortunately I have nephews who are computer geeks and helped me to rid myself of this scum. I hate to be robbed without even seeing a weapon presented. The only thing this will cost me today was some time and takeing my nephew to the range this weekend, on me, of course. Just take care when you jump into these arenas, you don't really know who is behind that monitor....

[slowfire]

Thanks for the Heads Up.

[kwo51]

Norton caught all of them

[tattedupboy]

What was the name of the thread from where the virus came? Were you asked to click on some link, or did it just come from you trying to read a thread?

[PaulIcemanMc]

Originally Posted by tattedupboy

What was the name of the thread from where the virus came? Were you asked to click on some link, or did it just come from you trying to read a thread?

It had a link but I thought the site was safe.. my bad! The laptop that "caught the cold" was protected by "Kaperskys" anti virus. My company uses that instead of McAfee, Symantec, or other.

[kwo51]

symantec is norton. I really wanted to see it too. It told me to behave myself.

[HK4U]

There is always a danger when you click on a site. We have some pretty good anti-virus protection but you never know.

[JC40]

Originally Posted by PaulIcemanMc

I logged in yesterday and went to the offtopic forum where I saw a post about Julia Roberts, off course being curious I bit. Bad Mistake I got 4 viruses and spam that embedded itself on my laptop. This is really not what I expect of this site. Maybe you should have paying members before you can post because most thieves will not purchase a membership to try and defraud another individual...

I was going to cost me $200+/- just to get rid of those, but fortunately I have nephews who are computer geeks and helped me to rid myself of this scum. I hate to be robbed without even seeing a weapon presented. The only thing this will cost me today was some time and takeing my nephew to the range this weekend, on me, of course. Just take care when you jump into these arenas, you don't really know who is behind that monitor....

I got bagged with one of those before on another site.Thank god i have norton anti virus,because it cathces the virus before it can get into my computer.I just wouldn`t open anything from a person who has only posted one time advertising anything.These idiots are posting on forums idiscriminately more and more.Glad to hear your fix wasn`t costly.

[DrLewall]

If there is no content related to what this site is abt, NEVER, NEVER click on a link...sux that you got suk'd into the trap..Granted, Luke is doing the best that he can and we all appreciate what he does and has for us here. I think he also needs a few of us to be "Spam Cops" here to delete this spam/troll crap to help prevent honored members from stepping into a pile of poo before there is a chance to get it cleaned up while you/I visit here.

[Red Hat]

Remember if you are not running any protection you will pick up all sorts of crud on the net. First rule in computing is install a virus program and keep it current!