attacked at Tom's Hardware

jevery

jevery

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Has anyone else had their security software block some type of unauthorized download by clicking on a link at Tom’s Hardware. Just now I was browsing the news headlines and clicked on one titled, “Windows 7: You Can Disable Every Major Feature.” Then I’m suddenly directed to a very helpful site, desktoprepairpackage.com, whom of course offers several software packages to repair the virus that I supposedly just contracted. This as Norton Internet Security delivers the message that indeed it has just blocked an attack by a Fake Scan Webpage, (whatever that is). This is the second time this has happened to me at Tom’s Hardware. ***s ought to be hung by their toes who develop this type of software scam which may or may not actually be destructive, and Tom’s Hardware needs better policing of what is linked to their site. Mad as ****:mad:
 
I randomly clicked everything around TH right now and have had no issues so far. I would make note on the forums there.

Perhaps a new ad they added is not so trust worthy anymore.
 
If you use firefox, you can use adblock plus and noscript addon that may fix you problem.
 
Once when i was browsing and i clicked on a benchmark test it directed me to another page saying i had been randomly selected to partake in a survey would i like to accept. I use Firefox i think I'd better check ad blocker is on.
 
Yes, today it happened to me as well and you know how it won't take no for an answer so I just disconnected from the net by manually shutting down my modem.

It was weird in that I don't know where it came from. I was simply doing research and checking out an article from Tom's Hardware and 5 seconds after I loaded the warning message plus blah, blah, blah appears and it then attempted to download and install.
 
F*ck Tom's Hardware and their malicious pop up ads. ;)

It happens elsewhere. Some of these sites, all they care about is the money.
 
I monitor and block tracking and advertising cookies, which ends up being basically all cookies except for the cookies for the site itself. Currently my queue contains about 200 blocked sites. The reason that I block these types of cookies is that I don’t care for the idea of being monitored and I don’t wish to provide advertisers any information for advertisement targeting. Here’s a current list of these types of cookies for Tom’s Hardware that will download unless blocked , smartadserver.com, doubleclick.net, bestofmedia.com, questionmarket.com, advertising.com, xiti.com. Now I don’t know if telling others to block these cookies is the right thing to do or not, because if everyone did it then advertisers would eventually quit advertising and Tom would run out of money for providing us with the valuable information that we go there for. On the other hand, I feel Tom’s has stepped over the line in allowing “link rerouting” to occur on their site.

[Edit] Oh yea, and don't forget desktoprepairpackage.com, you'll definitely want to block that one.
[Edit2] Here's some subjects from the FAQ's at desktoprepairpackage.com that I thought were interesting, “The charge that appeared on my credit card is not the same as promised when buying. Can you explain?” and “I was charged more than once for my purchase. How can this be fixed?”
 
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