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   BritCanuck
   Member

   Some of the advertising featured on GiveawayOfTheDay.com may be triggering alerts from your anti-virus programs.

   It's not the GAotD site itself, but some of the ads may contain links to suspected phishing websites where personal information may be gathered (I'm guessing that some of those sites may gather that information automatically, without your knowledge or permission, hence the alerts). My AV program just blocks the ad from appearing on the GAotD site.

   View a sample (Kaspersky Anti-Virus)
   http://img405.imageshack.us/i/gaotdadalert01a.jpg/

   Thought you might want a heads-up.

   Posted 15 years ago #
2. 

   notblocklox
   retired

   @ BritCanuck
   Normally I use Firefox only, and there was none such warning by Kaspersky, and neither Ghostery nor AdBlock Plus reported that bug.
   The same when launching IE8, neither Kaspersky nor IE's own safty-filter found anything.
   Even the online scan found nothing.
   May it be possible that there was something nasty in your cache?

   However, thanks for your report. One should always keep the eyes open :)

   graylox

   Posted 15 years ago #
3. 

   Txnnok
   Member

   I use Kasp. IS 2010 with firefox sometimes opera and I installed todays giveaway with no alert's.

   It might be picking up we're GOATD has the pop up back to original site or sometimes it goes makers site to.

   Prob.just a false alert. What are web settings set to?

   

   Posted 15 years ago #
4. 

   Anonymous
   Unregistered

   Some of the advertising featured on GiveawayOfTheDay.com may be triggering alerts from your anti-virus programs.
   I only see Adds from Google NZ dvd so on,If you in US you will not get NZ ads but adds for US that the way Google works most Google adds are ripoff spyware,A tip don't click adds & pop ups don't click the links that you don't know don't pay for spam if you don't pay it will stop.

   Posted 14 years ago #

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