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Old May 25, 2010 | 09:38 PM
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i was surfing the forms and when i got this this page java loaded up and next thing i know some antispyware soft was running on my computer trying to get to buy it.

https://www.s2ki.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=790386

i think i accidentally clicked an ad maybe
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Old May 25, 2010 | 09:39 PM
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the ad was for this site right here
http://usa.kaspersky.com/store/
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Old May 28, 2010 | 06:03 AM
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IVE HAD THE SAME PROBLEM I JUST DONT KNOW WHICH AD IT WAS.... ITS HAPPENED ONCE ONY MY WORK COMP WHICH I GOT FIXED AND YESTERDAY AT MY HOME AND NOW ITS F00KED SINCE I CANT OPEN ANY PROGRAMS UP......

WTF?
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Old May 28, 2010 | 07:25 AM
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This has been an issue before. It's a problem with Google's ad network and Adobe's Flash. They are unable to detect or block malicious Flash ads from "certified" 3rd party ad networks. I can't block Flash ads, my only option is to block all 3rd party networks which I have now done (again).

Flash is incredibly insecure and Google doesn't give a shit because they make mucho moolah ($24B a year at last count) by running Flash-based ads. They said they had fixed the problem, obviously they have not so I will leave 3rd party networks blocked for now on.

I'm sorry you ran into this problem. It's not something that should happen or something that I would have expected from a company like Google. It's an issue that affects millions of sites, even huge ones.
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