Comments on: ANNOYING POP-UP ADS ON METALSUCKS?

By: Blackthorned

Blackthorned — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 08:04:54 +0000

I’ve had the pcprivacycleaner a bumber of times on both Mac and PC

By: Tommy Leebowitz

Tommy Leebowitz — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 21:10:43 +0000

I’ve been attacked by this pcprivacycleanerpro.com bullshit for the past 3 days in a row.

By: Jirky

Jirky — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 20:45:53 +0000

It just happened to me again. The name of the site is pcprivacycleanerpro.com

By: Muttweiler

Muttweiler — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 15:48:13 +0000

I was sent to piracy cleaner before I could comment about PIRACY CLEANER ain’t that some shit!

By: key

key — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 14:41:00 +0000

yup that f’m pc privacy cleaner bullshit.

By: Alex the Kilter Lobster

Alex the Kilter Lobster — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 11:32:09 +0000

Yeh, I’ve had some sporadic PC Virus Cleaner shit at least 4-5 times in recent weeks. Thinking about it it is specific to your site. Assumed it was some form of spyware on my own machine until now. It is annoying.

By: Revrant

Revrant — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 04:20:37 +0000

I got it just now opening the article, I’ve gotten it four times, but nothing malignant from the AV, I couldn’t tell you what was doing it as it redirects you, and once you go back all the ads are of course different.

By: Corey

Corey — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 23:10:46 +0000

I get the PC Privacy or Piracy thing. (whichever it is) on occasion. It seems about like once a month.

By: sean

sean — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 22:51:48 +0000

Same here. PC scan pop up

By: slipmush

slipmush — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 22:13:19 +0000

using new Mozilla Firefox, and was hit with it a few times but luckily my AVG professional Anti virus stopped it from infecting my computer.

kind of surprised when it happened….but hey…what ya gonna do, it happens lol.

Hopefully the problem can be found and removed :)

By: attackmole

attackmole — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:17:28 +0000

I’ve seen this a few times. I’m not sure its a true popup, one cause firefox doesn’t catch it and two cause it also closes this window and auto-redirects it to their website. I was meaning to email you guys about this, glad to see I wasn’t the only one having issues with it. Can’t say I’ve noticed any specific ad that makes it pop up.

By: blah

blah — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:12:27 +0000

has happened numerous times, redirected to that cleaner site, and then it prompts me with dialog boxes. its not a popup so firefox isnt stopping it.

By: the_0ne

the_0ne — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:25:18 +0000

Have had it numerous times. FF does catch it, but it’s still annoying. :(

By: Conor

Conor — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:59:26 +0000

I’m on this site all day everyday and I’ve never seen a popup. I have pretty stringent popup blocking, but I’m always notified when one is blocked, so I don’t think I’ve ever been a victim of this.

Very cool that you’re addressing this publicly, Vince! Cheers to that.

For the record, I actually look at the ads on your site, because for the most part, they’re honestly quite relevant to my interests. Now, if I start seeing crap for PC Piracy Cleaner or some such thing… =P

By: Kye

Kye — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:39:16 +0000

I’m using Mozilla Firefox 3.0.1 too and it’s happened to me.

The spyware’s embedded in someone’s comment as it doesn’t occur on the main page and will only pop up if you allow the comments on certain posts to pop up.

At least that’s what I’ve gathered. I’ve seen this thing a few times before(I’m a computer tech btw), it’s not anything horribly bad, but it’s annoying if you don’t know how to take care of it.

Jirky has the right idea, until it gets fixed, just don’t click the box and cancel out your browser.

By: WetBiscut

WetBiscut — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:35:27 +0000

I’ve had the same thing over the last few weeks. Normally Firefox detects the attempt and blocks it, but a few times it doesn’t and I have to do the same thing Jirky was talking about.

By: Dave Betancourt

Dave Betancourt — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:16:46 +0000

Never happened to me. BTW I’m using Mozilla Firefox 3.0.1.

By: Jirky

Jirky — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:34:59 +0000

I also had the same problem the others mentioned. (although I think it’s called PC Privacy, not piracy…but I could be wrong) As the others have said it is very sporadic. It usually minimizes my browser and I get a pop-up box that says something about your pc may be infected and wants you to click cancel or continue. I always have to close my browser to get rid of it (DON”T CLICK ON THE BOX!!!)

By: Voodoo Trucker

Voodoo Trucker — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:33:41 +0000

Yeah, happened to me multiple times, PC cleaner, etc. Will SN next time it happens.

By: Dr. Noodles

Dr. Noodles — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:25:28 +0000

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