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[canardpress]

As you may know, a new site has been started up which gives out free domains. The website http://www.free-domaine.net/ requires only a popup or popunder for a free domain. The catch, a virus. When this popup is opened it installs a virus which creates the potential for a hacker to control your computer, but is most likely used to put spyware for advertisiers or ads on your computer. I would strongly suggest you stay away from this site.

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[freak127]

No, I had no idea about this. How does the virus work? Is it a keylogger or something? Thanks for telling me about this, I will stop offering the domains if they are giving out free viruses with them.

[bozley05]

I believe it is an ActiveX control, if you have SP2 they won't affect you.

[canardpress]

By putting this popup on your page however you are effecting everyone without SP2 that goes to your site. The virus workes by automatically intalling its self.. so be careful.

[yhap2004]

Yeah. Tx canardpress I knew it along time ago, but no one seems to listen. Oh well!!

[canardpress]

Its ok.. somties you just need to start a new topic..lol. :)

[domainking]

As long as you have a browser that is not spyware prone, like Opera. Then your fine. :biggrin2:

[canardpress]

Well yes, but why would you want to infect all of you visitors? That's just making it worse you know.. :(

[yhap2004]

well they had a topic with free domain and someone posted that link and i've tried it and posted a reply!!

[domainking]

I really wouldnt worry about this. Less and less ppl are using Internet Explorer which is pretty much the only browser than can be infected. Only idiots use IE anymore.

[canardpress]

Thank you for you lovely comment domainking.. :( May I remind you that the internet is build for Internet Explorer, and that over 80% of the population still uses it. To willingly infect 80% of you site's visitors is just wrong.

[canardpress]

We have taken down the zpanel signups for now so we can deal with the current ones. We also recently siwtched to bizari.com, so we have to change the subdomains and e-mail the users.

[domainking]

If infecting them makes them realize that their using the worst browser ever, then so be it.

[bozley05]

My site must have a smart population then, coz only 62.9% of my users use IE, which just looking at that came as a shock to me. I thought it would be 80-90, but domainking is certainly right, less and less people are using it.

[domainking]

And this is a good thing. As ppl realize that IE is spyware prone and slow, more and more will switch. I recommend Opera.

[NC_TOM]

I recommend Firefox... too bad there's malicious code on their ads... but what really needs to be done is everyone needs to update their ---- and get Firefox or Opera installed and update their security... hopefully then spyware will be a thing of the past once nobody's affected by it.

[bozley05]

Spyware will evolve to be able to infect Firefox/Opera users... If it doesn't already.. I think in an alternative browser you are just decreasing your chances of getting spyware or a virus.

[Robert]

In this situation, it's really important to have an anti-virus updated and ready.

[bozley05]

I recommend AVG anti-virus, they have a free edition which is really good. It has low system resource usage, live scanning (like it will tell you if you have downloaded a zip file that contains a virus), email scanning... And it automatically checks for updates every day, which they release a new virus database every 2-3 days.

http://www.grisoft.com/ if anyone is interested.

[Benoitfan91]

Yeah AVG Anti Virus is awesome. A lot better than Norton or McAfee in my opinion. AVG is very reliable and when you get a virus a popup window comes up warning you and as bozley05 said already their Virus Database is updated every 2-3 days so it's great.

[felguard]

oh koo ive recently been looking for a new anti virus, by the way how long does the free edition last? 30 days?

[bozley05]

Nup, it's free for ever... I think it might not have all the bells and whistles of the pro version, but it is enough to protect your computer.

[felguard]

oh wow really? nice imma get it!

[bozley05]

Cool, that is like my 4th convert. These guys should be paying me.

[gmcnairn]

Man, I love AVG... Thanks for the tip ;)

[Robert]

Cool, that is like my 4th convert. These guys should be paying me. Then I'd be a rich man!

I use the pro version of AVG and install the free version on every machine I repair (10-15 a week). I wish I could get referral points!

[rhianna]

I recommend AVG anti-virus, they have a free edition which is really good. It has low system resource usage, live scanning (like it will tell you if you have downloaded a zip file that contains a virus), email scanning... And it automatically checks for updates every day, which they release a new virus database every 2-3 days.

http://www.grisoft.com/ if anyone is interested.

Thanks, Bozley05, that's very helpful.