Vindekarr Posted July 27, 2013 Share Posted July 27, 2013 So, I was on Skyrim Nexus today and I noticed a very suspicious ad on the loose. The add is just a big green word "begin download" The font, icon shape and style, colour, EVERYTHING is designed to look like the Nexus NMM download button. There's a lame attempt to prevent lawsuits on it aswell, it says in microscopic letters which are only visible if you highlight them, "clicking this icon will take you to our site and begin wowdowloader installation" It's very clearly targeted because it literally only appears on Nexus mod pages, and only in one very specific location. The fact that it is beyond any doubt supposed to look like the mod download button we use is obviously no coincidence. Strongly recommend getting rid of it before too many people get viruses off it. And I'm pretty sure they would-if they're doing stuff like this, chances are, they're the scum of the internet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark0ne Posted July 27, 2013 Share Posted July 27, 2013 Did you manage to see who the provider was? It requires a little bit of delving, but if you "inspect element" (or similar right-click option in Firefox/IE) it will take you to the code and show you who the provider is, or at least what service it is routing through. Just tried about 100 page loads to try and find it but I can't. It's probably geo-targeted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vindekarr Posted July 27, 2013 Author Share Posted July 27, 2013 Will do. And yeah, a lot of people from the various South-East Asian countries think Australians are stupid, it's a cultural trope. And true in the case of some. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimboUK Posted July 27, 2013 Share Posted July 27, 2013 Will do. And yeah, a lot of people from the various South-East Asian countries think Australians are stupid, it's a cultural trope. And true in the case of some. It does seem to be aimed at you, I just refreshed multiple times though my own UK connection and then my US VPN, nothing like it came up on either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guenthar Posted July 27, 2013 Share Posted July 27, 2013 With your other topic about enb and now this I suspect you have viruses on your computer. I have been working on computers for a long time now and these are the kinds of things that will come up when you have viruses. I think you should either try scanning your computer from safemode or try an online virus scanner like http://housecall.trendmicro.com/ which I have used successfully to get rid of viruses. Don't use the virus scanner you currently use in normal windows since that is one of the first thing viruses attack and compromise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rolandito Posted July 28, 2013 Share Posted July 28, 2013 I'm seeing it as well, being served up by googleads. Here's the image that comes through on my end: <img src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/simgad/3794191369969605620" border="0" width="300" class="img_ad" onload=""> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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