"Automated" Scam

**Veovis** · 08-28-09, 03:53 PM

Originally Posted by flame

Oh and playing a game and getting DQ when my brother opened my laptop the other day pissed me off. I set steam to not come on at startup after that.

You got Dairy Queen?

**flame** · 08-28-09, 04:13 PM

ok fixed.... maybe i was hungry
actually i think my brain was thinking disqualified...?

**Veovis** · 08-28-09, 04:27 PM

Originally Posted by flame

ok fixed.... maybe i was hungry
actually i think my brain was thinking disqualified...?

I figured that out... just giving you shit.

**run32.dll** · 08-28-09, 10:52 PM

Originally Posted by jmw_man

Weirdest thing happened a few days ago to me. I was here in the forums when a popup came up saying I had a virus and it immediately looked like it was doing a scan. My AVG in the corner wasn't saying anything but I went ahead and ran it anyways, didn't find anything.

If a popup shows up on your screen, what is the correct action in getting rid of it? I usually hit the X in the top right corner. Is this bad to do?

To prevent that from happening in the future I would recommend getting the Adblock Plus add-on for Firefox and maybe the NoScript add-on as well. If you prefer to use Chrome or Opera then AdSweep would be your best option. If you prefer to use IE you're kind of SOL unless you want to get into solutions that require using a proxy or editing the hosts table.