**Copyright violation alert**

im sure anyone who downloads a lot of pirate stuff isn't going to have $400 to pay so will find every way they can to get rid of this for free :)
 
Even if you did visit a questionable site how the hell can just clicking a link (presumably hooked into some javascript) or click an image result in an exe file being run on your PC? Seriously? How, unless someone has physically downloaded and ran something can people get caught out? Things don't just download and then run themselves? :confused:
 
Firefox + adblock + noscript
Windows Vista
0 infections

How some of you so-called "tech-savvy" people can get infected by malware these days is quite mind boggling.

Windows, only as insecure as the user.
 
aftershxck said:
Even if you did visit a questionable site how the hell can just clicking a link (presumably hooked into some javascript) or click an image result in an exe file being run on your PC? Seriously? How, unless someone has physically downloaded and ran something can people get caught out? Things don't just download and then run themselves? :confused:
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It's usually "Install our software for FREE XXXX, Tested spyware free!"



Idiots and greed are a profitable combination ;)
 
Tefal said:
It's usually "Install our software for FREE XXXX, Tested spyware free!"



Idiots and greed are a profitable combination ;)
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Nope they literally do download and install themselves. I've just aquired a virus, from visiting a site. Avast flagged it and said it blocked it, but it turns out it didnt and now I'm left with some questionable files in the startup menu which I cannot get rid off. Appears to be a new one as their almost no documentation on it.
 
aftershxck said:
Even if you did visit a questionable site how the hell can just clicking a link (presumably hooked into some javascript) or click an image result in an exe file being run on your PC? Seriously? How, unless someone has physically downloaded and ran something can people get caught out? Things don't just download and then run themselves? :confused:
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While I tend to agree with this way of thinking, what happened to me the other night was just plain odd. I was playing a game, so god only knows how something managed to anonymously [download and] install itself onto my PC.

Anyway, it seems to have gone now having booted up and finding no traces of it since getting home from college. Though I did have to close a window that said the so-called "AR Manager" had been successfully uninstalled, so I can only cross my fingers until I next restart my PC.
 
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