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admin
04-29-2007, 02:26 PM
Hi guys. I recently received a PM from one of our members, Pouso-G, regarding a very malicious ad called "ErrorSafe". This ad is apparently an ActiveX that launches multiple prompt to make you install their spyware, and here are a few screenshots taken of this:

http://freenet-homepage.de/pouso-g/coolrom-ad-01.gif
http://freenet-homepage.de/pouso-g/coolrom-ad-02.gif
http://freenet-homepage.de/pouso-g/coolrom-ad-03.gif
http://freenet-homepage.de/pouso-g/coolrom-ad-04.gif
http://freenet-homepage.de/pouso-g/coolrom-ad-05.gif

CoolROM does not support this kind of advertising, and definitely does not place these type of ads as a way to make ad revenue. We currently use a few (reputable) third-party ad companies to make ad revenue, and believe that this ad was snuck in by a shady buyer; therefore, I am looking for the source of this problem, and working in removing this ad. Pouso-G reported this ad from Germany, so if you guys see such an ad, please reply to this thread with the country that you are from - hopefully we can eliminate this ad ASAP! Thanks for everyone's help in advance, and sorry about the inconvenience to those who are experiencing this.
DarthBrady
04-29-2007, 10:25 PM
Hmm... That sucks.

maybe we'll get lucky, and find out its not from coolrom at all, and the dude just has malware or an IE virus or something.

I do get popups on coolrom, but never anything like that. I let my browser(s) allow CoolRom to display popups, just to help the site with getting out its advertising. anything to keep the site revenue flowing in.....
cherko
05-01-2007, 10:21 AM
maybe we'll get lucky, and find out its not from coolrom at all, and the dude just has malware or an IE virus or something.

NOOOO!! I have those too! But not on CoolROM, for some reason.
Kameo
05-04-2007, 05:03 AM
Get a decent spyware scanner, something like XoftSpy or Bulletproof, they work great. Also, get a decent virusscanner like AVG, Avast or NOD32 and ditch internet explorer like it's a hot brick, use FireFox instead.

There's an option in FireFox which allows U to block avertisements and such, try it, works great :) .....
cherko
05-04-2007, 05:43 AM
Naturally, I'm already using Firefox.
Kristaps513
05-08-2007, 12:35 PM
Naturally, I'm already using Firefox.
Me too, but when I use IE it always pops a pop-up at almost every site.
But at FF it pop-ups popped few times.
http://forum.crystalxp.net/uploads/post-9458-1137014098.gif