Explosm, Comprimised?

[PshSam]

Before the reset i got a couple messages while visiting explosm. I can't remember if it was while i was being redirected to the forums, or when i went to the comic directly. At any rate, instead of being redirected to explosm, i was instead presented a web page - not a popup- that told me that i had some sort of spyware or something that could see the Porn sites that i went to. I immediately knew this was false, as it asked me to install some anti-software. Some time later, i got another message like this, but not about porn or anything. I had never got these redirection from any other site except for explosm. Anyway, i was just about to go into a sub-forum and Avast said it just caught a Trojan. I wasn't to scared, but it just made me think that explosm was compromised in some way. The Trojan could just be something of my own, but the webmessages could be a problem for others.

Have you been getting any alerts like this? If not, any idea why i did?

[Kenneh]

Didn't Serion create a thread like this?



Whoa, conspiracy in this topic.

[PshSam]

Eh, i don't know as Serion is a thing before my time here.

[Soul]

Actually ive been getting that to about a drive cleaner or some shit about my porn.

And it only comes out when im on explosm.

[John Travolta]

It's a popup, just don't click "Okay" and stop bitching.

[jack8274]

I've never had any problems like that with Opera but I did have something like this with IE7. try switching to a different browser.

[k1ssm3im1rish]

I've been getting one about a drive cleaner, and it completely redirects me to the website... but then if I press back I'm back to Explosm and everything is fine.

[PshSam]

I've been getting one about a drive cleaner, and it completely redirects me to the website... but then if I press back I'm back to Explosm and everything is fine.

Yeah, that's what i was trying to get at. Is this happening to Firefox users?

[k1ssm3im1rish]

I use Safari.

[PshSam]

I use Safari.

My hypothesis fails.

[CnGy]

dude it happened to me too

serious

[Tricky_The_Clown]

Yeah, that's what i was trying to get at. Is this happening to Firefox users?

Nah, I use firefox and nothing like this happens to me.

[Kwanza]

We're aware, and we're trying to get that certain ad off the site.

[TheHighwaySong]

I too am a victim.

[Schafmann]

I use FireFox, and I get it.

[Niki]

I have firefox and yeah, it actually happened a minute ago.

[CaptainGod]

I use Firefox, Never happed to me :P

[Mirrorman]

I haven't had any kind of ad-problems as long as I have read these comics, and it's been over a year :/ .

[Assassin]

Yes, I am a victim aswell

[Aoife]

If your anti virus got rid of it, what does it matter now anyway?

[lollercaust]

That's great news, Kwanza. I figured it was an ad explosm had and didn't realize, because I don't think you guys would purposely put one that annoying on here.

[SmileEmptySoul]

I have Firefox. Happens to me. Nice to know you're doing something about it Kwanza.

[letteratlantic]

It happens get over it.

[Ox]

Everyone can get it. The Admins know about it and are trying to get rid of it. All will be well with the world again, soon.

[BAN ME PLEASE]

I created it to sell my home made anti spyware product.

[Assassin]

I created it to sell my home made anti spyware product.

Oh you evil mastermind

[PshSam]

If your anti virus got rid of it, what does it matter now anyway?

What are you talking about? My anti-virus caught a Trojan not this ad. It matters to me!:wail:

[AidanC]

Haha I'm an idiot. I never realized that connection between explosm and that ad before. Thanks for pointing that out. :cheer:

[Shagg]

I'm using Internet Explorer, and have yet to run into this Ad. Pop-Ups fear the Shagg.:clint:


EDIT: Ever since the great Reset, I can't see my Avatar. Is that just me? Can anyone else see it?

[Mirrorman]

Shagg, everyones avatar got lost.

[Beefynick]

I use firefox and have never had this problem, but I have the adblock extension. Anyone else who uses firefox who has this extension have a problem?

[phobia9]

I use IE7, never got a pop-up from this forum yet :D

[Dragid]

Yeah, I've gotten it too. It's recently become more frequent too. In fact, I got it while I was trying to read the comic a few minutes ago.

[buckfan]

It was around before the reset and on firefox. Just click the x button on the top right and click back

[Soul]

Thank god its actually coming from the forum I kept thinking that my porn finally fucked up my computer.

[Sugabe]

I use only use firefox. I got it the other day too.

[Oinohtna]

I was using my parents computer to see explosm about a week ago. I accidentally forgot to close the popup and my mom thought she really had a virus. She clicked the box thinking it would fix it, but luckily I caught her before she got too far into the scam.

[PshSam]

Thank god its actually coming from the forum I kept thinking that my porn finally fucked up my computer.

Yeah, i thought my dad had finally caught me. I was like, " Oshi, now we're gonna have to have the talk". About transvestites of course.

[Derelict]

I, Derelict, have never gotten this ad/pop-up in my time at the newly created Explosm.

[Richard_Simmons]

I have been this ad, and it made me thinks that someone has been looking at porn on my computer. I dont so it was creeping me out. Thank you for clearing this up

[SLjimbolian]

I've got it too, but it's only a nuisance for me. I just keep clicking cancel and hit back on my browser once everything's back to normal.

[Razzmatazz13]

I had this one until I got the ad blocker for firefox, so it doesn't pop up anymore for me.

[John Travolta]

I haven't had it since the new Explosm came up.

[TireVengeance]

It's a popup for christ's sake. Why would Windows have a script that warns you that you have porn on your computer?

[Greeny]

Its happened to me twice, I am using Firefox

[John Travolta]

I'm sure all of you have porn on your computer.

[CreamScreamer]

It pops up all the time for me. Just about every other time I come here. It's really been annoying the fuck out of me.

[Can Not]

The drive cleaner ad resizes my firefox window to non-existent then I have to click cancel on the shitty drivecleaner thing, then I'm too violated to continue talking about this.

[DamnDude]

I use Opera 9'ish, and this has never happened to me.

[a Ham Demon]

I come on here significantly less since that ad came up, it annoys the fuck out of me. Not necessarily a bad thing.

[Snake Face]

This has happened to me on more then one account when I was using Firefox and IE.

[PshSam]

It's confirmed that it's just an ad, let the thread die already.

[Zaren]

I, too got a message while browsing the explosm forums. It told my my computer might be infected, and offered a free scan. Naturally, I wasn't going to pass up a FREE scan to see if there were problems. So I did what any reasonably intelligent person would so, and hit OK.
Then an animated GIF appeared, and was apparently scanning a so-called "C" drive. I was not aware of any C drive. In any case, this animated image told me that my C drive, which I previously did not know existed, had over 900 porno files!
My first thought was that my brother had somehow created this "C drive" to privately stash his porn collection. So my frantic search for this rumored C drive began. I first checked out /, then /mnt/, from there, it was madness. Lastly, I tried entering C:\ in the search bar. The results puzzled me. Nothing was found. How could this perfectly legitimate, GIF image be able to scan a C drive, that my computer cannot found. Has my brother finally outsmarted me? I may never know.
This is where I gave up (http://jokerdesign.net/hos/zaren/stuff/dc2.png)

Thanks to you, explosm, a great number of questions have been asked, and none of them seem like they will be answered any time soon. And questions with no answers bother me.

[Demoir]

The first time I got it I was like "SHIT SOMEONE'S WATCHING WHAT SITES I'M ON?!" then 2 seconds later I was like "oh its a virus. k". Sincerely.

[PyroOwned]

I get it, and when you click "x" or "Cancel", it loads up anyway. Then my Norton opens and erases it. Trouble is, half of my Norton is out of date...

[Zaren]

I never got any anti-virus crap, because in my experience with it, it just slows the shit out of my computer, probably just as much as a virus would.

[PublicRestrooms]

Yeah, I've been getting the same thing as well.

If you want to know more information about the particular trojan itself, you can go here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winantivirus)

[P0K3M0N_MA5T3R]

Yes it's very annoying I don't think any company should be allowed a pop up that not only closes your current screen but even when you click no, opens up a browser window with the product in.

[Can Not]

Yeah guys...my laptop is fine, but my desktop (which I rarely use) has become INFESTED with this fake antivirus crap. I'm really pissed off.

[Mistook]

I was told by the same pop-up that the porn on my computer could compromise my job, marriage, and some other shit.

Even if I don't click okay, I'm forced to click the exit or cancel button. Either way it redirects me.

I sure hope no one on this computer finds my porn. Questions would be asked. And I sure don't want to lose my marriage!

[aclays]

*bump for relevance*


I was checking out the daily from monday I believe, and my antivirus caught a trojan trying to download. I didn't have any other windows open, so it was definitely explosm. What's going on?

[fabz]

The Internet is trying to communicate with you.

Tell it that you have milk and cookies.

[Cristo]

I haven't had anything so far.

Proud Opera user here.

[GCBC]

FOR FUCKS SAKE.

New people need to stop bumping these threads.

What's going on is that you are a dumb ass. Plain and simple.

[aclays]

FOR FUCKS SAKE.

New people need to stop bumping these threads.

What's going on is that you are a dumb ass. Plain and simple.

You are a kind and loving individual my good sir.

[Ox]

She's a chick.

You probably have spyware from downloading gay porn.

[lifenoob]

No problems with Firefox, comes up every time on IE.

Why should gay porn have more spyware than straight, and if so what about threesomes?

[Mirrorman]

Stop downloading random shit off the internet and don't bump threads that are made a day after the reset. Do you people just go "IMMA GO TO TEH 31st PAGE AND BUMP A RANDOM THREAD"?

[Matt]

No problems with Firefox, comes up every time on IE.

That means your computer was infected through IE and has nothing to do with our site.

[Mr. Crow]

Matt: "That means your computer was infected through IE and has nothing to do with our site."

*Turns away from computer and picks up phone*

Matt: "Rob, they're on to us."

[HappinessMan]

*bumps for relevance*

[Matterialize]

Sending virus to Matterialize!
...

[HappinessMan]

IT WAS JUST A PRECURSOR!

[xkittenxsocksx]

Acquire spybot search and destroy from download.com if you're infected.

[Baani]

I've never had any ad problem with explosm. I use firefox.

[GCBC]

That's totally because you are Indian.

[HappinessMan]

gcbc I'm responsible for the virus come arrest me.

[GCBC]

I would, but I don't need another virus to deal with :fmita:

[Tyler_Legrand]

aclays, I hate you so much. I'm going to send you a PM, too.

[BKS]

Just sweep your harddrive for viruses, and if nothing shows up, kill yourself, or reformat your computer.

[Baani]

That's totally because you are Indian.

You are so right. :hail: