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Old Apr 16, 2020 | 10:51 AM
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Very often in the last couple of days, my antivirus software is notifying me of a blocked malicious activity from linkangood.com. This is a know malicious pop up thing I believe and it only seems to occur when I am on S2ki and click on a forum topic, which is when banner ads would rotate/load. So I am assuming it is a bad banner ad.

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Old Apr 16, 2020 | 11:11 AM
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Originally Posted by engifineer
Very often in the last couple of days, my antivirus software is notifying me of a blocked malicious activity from linkangood.com. This is a know malicious pop up thing I believe and it only seems to occur when I am on S2ki and click on a forum topic, which is when banner ads would rotate/load. So I am assuming it is a bad banner ad.
Actually, this appears to not be from S2KI's functions but instead is coming from a member (Charper732) who has been posting that domain in some of their posts that date back to January with some as recent as today. Not all of their posts reference the above domain. It's possible the member's computer has some sort of malware installed or the member is doing something that is adding that content to their posts.





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Old Apr 16, 2020 | 11:25 AM
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Nailed it I think. One post I kept seeing this in was the R.I.P Fuse holder thread and he was the person that had just posted there.
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Old Apr 16, 2020 | 11:34 AM
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I've removed all the references in the member's posts. We'll reach out to the member to inform him that his computer appears to have malware.

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