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18-03-2008 2:04pm

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gerky

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Just to let the admins know boards has a yellow/amber rating in siteadviser although there's nothing really in the details.

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#2 18-03-2008 3:06pm
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How are those things updated, I wonder?

User feedback?

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#3 18-03-2008 3:38pm
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Hey, from what I can see here it's green thanks to some helpful boards.ie users.

Where are you seeing this amber rating?

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#4 18-03-2008 4:07pm
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That REL guy really seems to hate boards.ie

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#5 18-03-2008 4:09pm
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It's showing as green for me.

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#6 18-03-2008 7:24pm
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Its back to green for me now, it was showing amber in firefox and on Google search the little symbol beside it said 1 bad download must of just been a fault.

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#7 18-03-2008 8:17pm
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Green here and iv added my review.

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#8 18-03-2008 8:21pm
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"Running very slow of late.... With annoting Pop ups for surveys."

REl needs to learn the difference between a pop-up and a mass pm.

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#9 18-03-2008 8:39pm
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Ponster wrote: »

"Running very slow of late.... With annoting Pop ups for surveys."

REl needs to learn the difference between a pop-up and a mass pm.

I'd hazard a guess he/she has been banned from boards and wasn't impressed:)

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#10 26-03-2008 2:51am
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We're amber yet again due to green joker poker.
Heres a screen grap.

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#11 26-03-2008 4:24am
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I hate McAfee with a passion. Theres nothing more annoying then that bloody splash screen every time you turn on the computer. The best kind of anti-virus is the kind that doesnt bother you every 2 hours. [/rant]

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#12 26-03-2008 2:05pm
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Overheal wrote:

I hate McAfee with a passion. Theres nothing more annoying then that bloody splash screen every time you turn on the computer. The best kind of anti-virus is the kind that doesnt bother you every 2 hours. [/rant]

I've never used mcafee anti virus so don't have good or bad experiance with it although from what I've read about the anti virus it seems to leaves a lot to be desired.
The amber rating is from siteadviser a separate application.

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#13 26-03-2008 2:57pm
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Overheal wrote: »

I hate McAfee with a passion. Theres nothing more annoying then that bloody splash screen every time you turn on the computer. The best kind of anti-virus is the kind that doesnt bother you every 2 hours. [/rant]

I don't know what "McAfee" you've been using but I was using it until December (too cheap to renew) and AVG bothers me more with "Updating" and "Update completed, press OK to finish" messages.

SiteAdvisor once rated boards.ie red, for a short time, citing links to a (then) dangerous website star-adserver.com

Is boards really hosting GreenJokerPoker (a.k.a. CasOnline adware)?

Here's the report.
http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/boards.ie

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#14 26-03-2008 3:01pm
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SeanW wrote: »

Is boards really hosting GreenJokerPoker (a.k.a. CasOnline adware)?

Here's the report.
http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/boards.ie

I would say google ads are.

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#15 26-03-2008 3:46pm
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In the yellow on mine too.

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#16 26-03-2008 6:39pm
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yellow with me as well

per site details reason given - found 1 yellow download

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#17 26-03-2008 7:14pm
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Well iv said it before, and ill say it again - it shouldnt link directly to an exe file. Instead the banner should link to a page explaining what the story with the file is etc.

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#18 26-03-2008 7:23pm
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Sully wrote: »

Well iv said it before, and ill say it again - it shouldnt link directly to an exe file. Instead the banner should link to a page explaining what the story with the file is etc.

+1 An advert linking directly to an exe is bad. :eek:

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#19 26-03-2008 7:26pm
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Very suprised if the admins were not on top of this.

Mike.

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#20 26-03-2008 7:27pm
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mike65 wrote: »

Very suprised if the admins were not on top of this.

Mike.

It was raised ages ago in Help Desk. I thought they had it fixed (eventually!) but it seems to have gone astray again!

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#21 26-03-2008 7:27pm
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Just be thankful it's not at orange, which means something might go down somewhere in some way at some point in time.

PS - but yeah, a link to an executable file in a banner is a no-no!

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#22 26-03-2008 7:34pm
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Sully wrote: »

It was raised ages ago in Help Desk. I thought they had it fixed (eventually!) but it seems to have gone astray again!

Must see if Opera content blocker works for that next time it pops up.

Mike.

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#23 26-03-2008 7:42pm
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Sully wrote: »

Well iv said it before, and ill say it again - it shouldnt link directly to an exe file. Instead the banner should link to a page explaining what the story with the file is etc.

Exactly, in this case it should link to the poker program download page.

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#24 29-03-2008 9:29pm
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not sure where to post this.
should there be banner adds for porn?
ww.privatamateure.com/show_amateur.php?amateur_nickname=HeisseSheila&wmid=3078&program=revshare&campaign=4835&sc=1

this is the link

k found the prob.. i had a virus ...(think that may have been the reason)

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#25 29-03-2008 9:39pm
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John mac wrote: »

not sure where to post this.

Report the ads.

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#26 29-03-2008 11:11pm
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John mac wrote: »

not sure where to post this.
should there be banner adds for porn?
ww.privatamateure.com/show_amateur.php?amateur_nickname=HeisseSheila&wmid=3078&program=revshare&campaign=4835&sc=1

this is the link

OH! John why post that here, fcukED.

If you dont mind me asking , but Where the hell did you find that John Mac?

Copy the url of the boards.ie page you found and report it. I just checked mcafee and Boards.ie has just got slated again . Better hide that porn or we are fcukEd.

Boards.ie Moderate yourselves- schnell-.

http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/boards.ie

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#27 31-03-2008 1:27am
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Well, if you check the site report, some idiot reviewer accused boards of Browser Exploits. It's the same as Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Apple, PBS.org etc, as a website goes, you haven't really "arrived" until an small army of dumb bellends accuses you of everything under the sun.

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#28 31-03-2008 8:31pm
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John mac wrote: »

not sure where to post this.
should there be banner adds for porn?
ww.privatamateure.com/show_amateur.php?amateur_nickname=HeisseSheila&wmid=3078&program=revshare&campaign=4835&sc=1

this is the link

k found the prob.. i had a virus ...(think that may have been the reason)

John Mac I have a question. Did you edit that last part of your post?
em! It appears to be the case then. Reason : found reason ( too late johnny boy; too late.)

Sherifu wrote: »

Report the ads.

The Ads have been Reported.

SeanW wrote: »

Well, if you check the site report, some idiot reviewer accused boards of Browser Exploits. It's the same as Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Apple, PBS.org etc, as a website goes, you haven't really "arrived" until an small army of dumb bellends accuses you of everything under the sun.

On a serious note I think your a good reviewer and know what your talking about. For that reason I gave boards.ie a review. Based on what you said and earlier posters and of course some experience.

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#29 31-03-2008 8:37pm
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This came up before and I beleive the take from one of the admins was that

mcAfee is like the clap

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#30 01-04-2008 12:23am
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gerky wrote: »

I've never used mcafee anti virus so don't have good or bad experiance with it although from what I've read about the anti virus it seems to leaves a lot to be desired.

The point of anti-virus software is to stop your machine from running software that embeds itself into your system in a way that makes it hard to remove and then damages it.

As such, installing McAfee or Norton anti-virus is akin to curing a headache by paying someone to smash you over the head with a baseball bat.

I don't have the resources of McAfee and Norton, so I can not compete directly in this regard, but if you are a McAfee or Norton user and find yourself with a headache then I've an innovative new cure that may interest you, for a very moderate fee.

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#31 01-04-2008 12:44am
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The Green Joker Poker download link was fixed months ago, Im sure they will update this eventually.

As for the other comments from unhappy users - meh - this interweb is a serious place. Some people get their jollies from that sort of thing:)

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