I clicked a topic here at DU and got a Porn site this afternoon

[Ksec]

WTF happened? Did anyone else have this happen? It went to a teen sex site and then my computer went wacky for a while.

Was it just me and if so anybody have any reasons on why?

[WLKjr]

1. could have been a freeper too

I hear they are spewing all kinds of stuff here.

then again, could have been cookies ;)

[jpgray]

2. Was Hedges involved?

Probably the problem was in your own box, not DU's. If you use IE, there are plenty of possible exploits that could cause this problem. If you haven't already, get the free versions of Adaware and Spybot, update them and then run them to see if you have any malware on your computer.

[kerryin2004]

3. Lucky!

I never get linked to any porn sites after hitting a topic!

[dietdpfan]

5. I don't know...

Sometime's the lounge can get downright pornographic.

I might just be sensitive though. ;)

[Child_Of_Isis]

4. Did you get a bunch of sex pop ups?

That happened to me once. I would just be cruising along and a gazillion sex pop ups would take over my screen. I would go in and clean out my cookies (I did find the cookie) and it would do it again eventually. I think ad aware finally killed it, or AVG, I can't remember. But anyway, no one else is ever on my computer so the cookie definitely was not picked up by visiting a porn site. It's a bug of some sort. I am probably not helping much, huh?

[Ksec]

7. no yer doin fine

when I clicked a topic which I cant remember what it was, I got just one site and it was a teen sex porn site. After that it started just getting pop ups from my computer saying mistakes were made and it wouldnt come out of them until I shut it down.

[Child_Of_Isis]

13. I was tired

when I was replying so I wasn't for sure if I was getting my point across. And my point was, if it is what I think it is, cleaning out your cookies will not help. It has to be removed.

[Ksec]

6. Yea I run IE

I figure it was on my side. I just never had this happen before and it kinda spooked me. I thought my computer was toast . It acted all crazy and shit for about an hour and then it just went away after a while.

Really strange stuff.

[Jack_Dawson]

8. Clear out your Cache

:hi:

[Ksec]

9. OK will do.

[TwilightZone]

10. Go to this website....

http://www.lavasoft.de

Download Ad-Aware SE (the free version).

Install and run it. It should locate the spyware/malware/adware that is causing the popups. Once it's done scanning, select all of the objects that it finds and have AA delete them.

[Ksec]

11. By cache you mean temp Internet files ?

[Dark]

12. Link?

:evilgrin: