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Forum tried to download something nasty. Jul 22, 2016 13:02:51 GMT

Post by G.D. on Jul 22, 2016 13:02:51 GMT

Well, it may not be the forum directly but some malware you have on your computer. If it's happened more than once, I suggest uninstalling and reinstalling your browser. But, I'm not much of an IT person so this is... just a suggestion. I'll poke Lith and link him the thread, as he's an actual IT guy. Hey may have some more insight on the matter.

I have noticed that proboards changed the way they're doing adds this year. Some of them really slow down this specific web page and I dislike it to a great degree.

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Forum tried to download something nasty. Jul 22, 2016 13:09:19 GMT

Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2016 13:09:19 GMT

Do you remember what page on the forum you were on? I'll see if I can find it on the page you were on at the time and check the logs just in case something fishy is going on.

Outside of that, what parth said could be true. You should run a malwarebytes scan (really good scan which will find 99% of the stuff that antiviruses won't) and reset your browser settings after running the scan to be sure. In a majority of cases it's not the actual website that causes these downloads, but something that's hijacked the browser, which is why I'm covering both bases. If you can give me the page you were on and it was something on the site that'll help.

You can download malwarebytes here (they have a paid version but the free version is fine):

www.malwarebytes.com/

It's pretty straight forward, just install it, launch and run it.

Side note in case something else gets downloaded when you go to download it, the installer should be "mbam setup" or something along those lines.

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Forum tried to download something nasty. Jul 22, 2016 15:38:38 GMT

Post by Ke 'ano on Jul 22, 2016 15:38:38 GMT

This happened to me on mobile twice. Both times I was under the impression that I had clicked on the advertisement at the top of the page, causing a pop-up. It's not uncommon for pop-up ads to have scripts to run automatic downloads. Kerguelen, could you have clicked an ad at all?

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Forum tried to download something nasty. Jul 22, 2016 17:33:36 GMT

Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2016 17:33:36 GMT

Jul 22, 2016 15:38:38 GMT Ke 'ano said:

This happened to me on mobile twice. Both times I was under the impression that I had clicked on the advertisement at the top of the page, causing a pop-up. It's not uncommon for pop-up ads to have scripts to run automatic downloads. Kerguelen, could you have clicked an ad at all?

I had the same issues with mobile. But it's because I either had, the page kept open, other pages open. Or I keep revisiting the site, so eventually I got some small virus or (w/e hijacked the page) that re-directed to a page or a random Google Play game.

And I do second @lithillian and G.D.

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Forum tried to download something nasty. Aug 2, 2016 0:05:29 GMT

Post by Kasumi Noxumbra on Aug 2, 2016 0:05:29 GMT

What browser have you used? If you have Firefox, this plugin is the best one I've used so far that blocks a lot of those ads you see everywhere: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/ . If you use Chrome: chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm?hl=en . Like Lith said, try Malwarebytes and also for extra I also use the free version of AVG. Best part of those programs and adblock that we mentioned is that they are also on mobile too. n_n Hope it helps. I know ProBoards has been known before to redirect a user through the ads that are on it, so best way to combat it is to use those.

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