Troublesome Websites?

[blackcauldron85]

I had made a really long post in the computer questions thread about troubles I was having, but then I contacted Geek Squad, and the worker is fixing my computer as he speaks (he's wherever his office is- it's done over the computer). And so I deleted the post.

A website I visited gave me a virus today, the "Antivirus Soft" virus. I'm guessing that maybe hollywoodreporter.com gave it to me, or else it could've been a blog that was linked from thedisneyblog.com (df82.blogspot.com).

I researched the virus, and many people said they got it from Myspace or Facebook.

So, does anyone know of any (legit) websites that have given them viruses?

Mickeynews.com had tried before, and I had contacted the webmaster, and he said that it must've been on my end, but now I have no problems with the site.

Why I think it could be hollywoodreporter.com:

I just added that website to my daily web-surfing a week or two ago. I know that you can get there by typing hollywoodreporter.com or thehollywoodreporter.com. I don't remember exactly what happened, but it was I think bringing me to another website, like I'd go to the site, but then it rerooted me. Ugh, I'm trying to think of what kind of site it brought me to. But anyway, that stopped after a couple days or so, but then today I got the virus. And we have an antivirus program...

But yay Geek Squad. I hope he fixes it. And he's giving me a new antivirus software, so yay.

So, yeah, any experiences you've had with (legit) websites doing weird things, please let us know!

[Lazario]

I've been having the most unbelievable trouble with Photobucket the last 2 weeks. Every 5 times I go there (and on average, I go there at least 3 times a day)- I get a report from my weekly Virus Scan that I've contracted one of those Trojan things (that they say are put in your computer to steal your identity and passwords, online banking information) have been successfully quarantined. Quarantined better mean that it's getting the frick rid of them. I do believe they came from Photobucket - since when I was going there, I was getting that little manilla bar on underneath the tab saying "Pop Up Blocked" for safety reasons. The last 2 days have been okay. But... we'll see about the rest of this week.

I don't use Facebook and I haven't had any trouble yet with MySpace. Today, I was redirected to some way out of the way site by Allmovie.com without my clicking anything. So, that counts as trouble. On Friday morning, my virus scanner will take care of that (as long as, again, quarantine means remove / delete / kill) if anything was 'loaded into my computer one way or the other. I wasn't on there that long. But that old Antivirus 2009 thing went after me on a bunch of different sites. Google was one, Proboards was another, and Hotmail a 3rd. Google is usually clean as a whistle. But Proboards actually reacted to what happened to me. I heard I wasn't the only one it happened to and so they shut down their AD service. Which no one freaking wants on their board anyway.

So, I've come to the conclusion that one of the reasons this happens on good, legitimate sites is because of their f*cking ads they throw everywhere. Everyone's infected with it. Even IMDb.com and Slant Magazine. Allmovie.com. Everyone. Everywhere. And I'm damn sick of it.

[blackcauldron85]

Today, I was redirected to some way out of the way site by Allmovie.com without my clicking anything. So, that counts as trouble. it.

That's what had been happening to me with hollywoodreporter.com a week or so ago.

You can't even trust antivirus software to catch some of these viruses. One Geek Squad agent was working on my computer from 12:48pm to after 9pm yesterday, and then another came on and worked until who knows when (I went to bed); that agent never contacted me and didn't even put the new antivirus software on, so Idk if he made things worse. So this morning, another agent helped, and he said that there's nothing they can do. I got an email from the first agent from yesterday and he said that I'll be getting a refund. My hard drive needs to be wiped out. I have an external hard drive that I backed things up to today, but it SUCKS.

Antivirus programs are like birth control; only 99% effective, I guess.

[UmbrellaFish]

The last two times I went on the Animated-News forums, I've gotten pop-ups that say "you have a virus" and there's an image of your "My Computer" page and things are blinking and everything.

The first time it happened it was on my old PC, so the image matched what my computer actually looked like so I downloaded "virus protection", which was what actually gave me the virus.

The next time I was on my new laptop, and the image didn't match "My Computer" page, so I just exited out, closed my web browsers, and did a virus scan of my computer, and everything was okay.

[Elladorine]

I normally don't stumble across any issues these days, but Photobucket recently redirected me to another page. I wasn't too happy about that.

[ajmrowland]

kh-vids.net is painfully slow.