TheBayouBullet
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Precautionary warning to my fellow Who-Dats: visit FinHeaven at your own risk. I went there tonight to see what the competition was saying, and within five minutes of browsing had an odd message from "yourtotalsecurity" appear from my screen suggesting that my computer was "at risk" or something, while simultaneously closing my browser. Clicked on the red X to close (not a false image of a red X, but the real one), and the next thing I see is Windows Explorer being scanned. Immediately rebooted, and everything seems to be fine. I did notice that upon opening FireFox, it went straight to a yourtotalsecurity page, but that might be attributed to Firefox remembering what was closed last. Annoying thing resized my Firefox browser window, too, to about a 2-inch box with barely anything visible.
Do a Google search for "FinHeaven" and "virus," and you'll see that this is a recent issue with ads that appeared on their site. I haven't clicked on any of the Google links for fear of going back to FinHeaven, but you can tell just be reading the Google descriptions that it's a real, recent issue. It might just be adware, but...well...ware is ware.
I think I'm okay - an up-to-date Norton's coming up blank on me. Nonethetless, as fun as it is to smack-talk and explore other teams' boards...you might want to pass on the Dolphins this go around.
Feel free to sticky this, Mods, if you so feel the need. I don't want anyone's computer getting infected.
Do a Google search for "FinHeaven" and "virus," and you'll see that this is a recent issue with ads that appeared on their site. I haven't clicked on any of the Google links for fear of going back to FinHeaven, but you can tell just be reading the Google descriptions that it's a real, recent issue. It might just be adware, but...well...ware is ware.
I think I'm okay - an up-to-date Norton's coming up blank on me. Nonethetless, as fun as it is to smack-talk and explore other teams' boards...you might want to pass on the Dolphins this go around.
Feel free to sticky this, Mods, if you so feel the need. I don't want anyone's computer getting infected.