Wincustomize: Nasty Pop-Ups Continuing
WC/Stardock Webmaster(s) Need To Do Something, Please
Thursday, December 29, 2005 by TheOtherGods | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
Now, it's becoming intolerable.
I just got nailed with a "general" Trojan, from a pop-up (off main page, and WB page) just entering the site.
Now, just sitting within a forum page reading a thread, I had a giant pop-up occur every 30 seconds or so.
When I go to download something, 90% of the time, I get a pop-up when entering that page.
Sometimes it starts as a small pop-up in the lower right-hand corner of my monitor, then expands to a large full-screen one.
Other times, a small pop-up in the upper left-hand portion of my monitor, which is the one I just got the Trojan from (yes, it's possible to get a Trojan from just opening a site; malicious HTML; I'm a coder, so I know and it's been happening for years).
Other times, just one giant pop-up behind the main browser.
Damn, you've got to be kidding me! I just got one now while sitting here typing this!
This is ridiculous, and I and others have already made complaints about this.
I've posted screenshots in the past, and nothing was done. I have more screenshots now, but I really don't have the time to be uploading a ton of these just to "prove" it's coming from here... it is!
All I'm asking, as a patron of Wincustomize for the last 3 years, is that the webmasters removed the embedded coding that seems to plague this site these days, which is allowing these pop-ups.
Please, do not "argue" with me here... there's another thread I started a while back with many people having the same problem... it's true... and yes, I know what I'm doing and I know what I'm talking about... just to avoid those who would "flame" out of lack of maturity.
I'm 31 years old and a programmer/graphic artist and build pcs... so please, don't tell me I'm not having this problem with this site... it's ONLY from this site, and it started sometime around the beginning of this year, and only got worse.
I'm hoping I can fully weed-out this damn trojan, but I'm asking you guys again... PLEASE look into this, alright?
It's becoming such a problem, I almost cannot visit WC anymore.
I'm running hardcore anti-virus, firewalls and totally updated IE... so I cant even imagine how these pop-ups are getting through, but the trojans (2nd one I've gotten from a pop-up here) attach to cookies... which, while might seem easily deleted, trojans are notoriously hard to completely get rid of, and that's a problem... not to mention the spyware coming from these pop-ups (yes, I'm protected, but it still gets through) and it just being a general huge annoyance.
I'm a long-time Stardock customer, and would appreciate someone finally looking into this and resolving the problem.
Thank you.
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Reply #42 Monday, January 2, 2006 8:12 PM
| If you know that spyware and trojans come from the ads displayed by the third party companies, and you continue to allow ads to come from the third party companies, you are supporting spyware and trojans. |
| On accasion it is possible that an undesirable ad may come through. If we are aware of those ads we contact our ad service agents and have them remove them. |
All I see is that it's possible on occasion that an undesirable add (may) come through. Not that they do.
Reply #43 Tuesday, January 3, 2006 8:02 AM
Ad Service Companies go about displaying their ads in many different ways. Sometimes the ads they display are through other ad agencies as well. And sometimes the ads are not hosted on their servers. So because the ads are not always coming from a controlled source its possible that legitimate ad companies will occasionally have undesirable or malicious ads sneak through.
We have in some cases already quit using some ad services because of repeat offences. The ad services that we are using now we have not had any prior problems. So yes, if we have continued problems with an ad service we do quit using it. At the moment we have been unable to narrow down as to which ad service this is coming from (if any) and which ad is causing the problem. We have not been able to view the problem internally yet and have not received sufficient information in order to pin point the culprit.
Again, if you see a popup/popunder or the wmf exploit please send me an email and include screenshots and url of the page. Also please provide me with URL's that ads on the page go to so we can investigate further.
And if for some reason you later on find out the the problem was coming from spyware on your system please let us know that too.
Reply #44 Wednesday, January 11, 2006 1:31 PM
Can we say "Internet Explorer popup blocker"?
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Reply #41 Monday, January 2, 2006 7:01 PM
Well there's the point isn't it? As T-man states
Clearly SD and WC are not supporting malware.