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04-29-2007, 02:26 PM
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Regarding ErrorSafe and other malicious ads on CoolROM
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.
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04-29-2007, 10:25 PM
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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.....
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05-01-2007, 10:21 AM
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05-04-2007, 05:03 AM
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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  .....
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05-08-2007, 12:35 PM
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But at FF it pop-ups popped few times. 
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