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Title: About.com
Post by: DREDIOCK on May 23, 2005, 07:34:54 AM

Anyone else find this site evil?
Literally every time I've visited this site I've picked up one form of bug or another.

Stay away from it.

Title: About.com
Post by: Modas on May 23, 2005, 02:17:09 PM

Holy crap!!!

that is one of the worst sites I've accidently come across.  I was looking up air compressors at work, somehow got directed to that site and got some nasty something or other on my work computer.

Took I.S. two days to figure out how to clean it up.  They were not pleased.

I highly recommend staying away from this site.  I've seen p0rn sites cleaner than this one :D  If that's possible

Title: About.com
Post by: DREDIOCK on May 23, 2005, 08:44:57 PM

Pretty much how I came across it. Had what I was looking for, had,really good info and a really funky browser helper/ homepage changer it gave me as well as a bfd trojan that took me a while to get rid of till I found out it placed itself in my one of my restore points.

Kept popping up in virus scan daily, and daily antivirus would get rid of it only to come across it again.

Finally found a site that suggested disabling the restore points (which erases all restore points) rebooting, rescanning then enabling the restore points again.

Occasionally I'll click on that site by mistake (usually followed by an OH CHIT) and I have to go through it all over again.