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Phishing on Boards?

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  • 07-06-2010 2:18pm
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    looksee
    Registered Users Posts: 28,502 ✭✭✭✭


    I just idly clicked on the Headsup.ie banner on the Edu site and my AVG would not let me have access as it was a Phishing site. It seems unlikely that Boards would sell ad space to a bogus site, so is it AVG being over cautious or is it a Phishing site?
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    Nevyn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 43,045 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


    AVG can often get it wrong, when is the last time you updated it?


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    looksee
    Registered Users Posts: 28,502 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Last updated on 7.6.10 (its the paid for version). Just had another look and all the ads in that corner of the site appear to be those 'ads by Google', this ad was bright red and seems to have disappeared.


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    Tom Dunne
    Registered Users Posts: 23,212 ✭✭✭✭Tom Dunne


    I uploaded a video to Facebook there last week, and a few of my friends (who were all using AVG) reported getting some kind of trojan, which seems really strange.

    Anyone else using different anti-virus software didn't see the problem, so I reckon it was AVG getting it wrong.

    Might be the same in this case.


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    looksee
    Registered Users Posts: 28,502 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    The plot thickens! The ad reappeared today, so having updated my AVG I tried clicking it again (I like to live dangerously). And I realised the program that was stopping it was not AVG, it was something called OpenDNS. This apparently is a program you can purchase/is free whatever, but I didn't invite it onto my computer, so presumably it is, itself, some sort of ware that maybe I don't want.

    Maybe I should take this to a different forum? Any suggestions :confused:


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    oeb
    Registered Users Posts: 2,793 ✭✭✭oeb


    Open DNS is a simply a free alternative to the DNS (Think of DNS as a phone book to the internet) services that your ISP provides.

    Chances are that it was implemented on your machine either by yourself, or someone else when your ISPs servers were giving trouble.

    It's quite a good (free) service that they provide.


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