Is this something I should be concerned about?

[Catman]

I was at www.blogspot.com right now. There is this link for random blogs. And, I was just searching through random blogs. Then suddenly I am directed to this weird page and warning from Internet Explorer pops up saying I have adult content and I should install this program to clean it up. At first I thought this was a joke and closed it. Then, I thought it could be a virus so I did a virus scan and got nothing.

So, I don't know. Now I'm concerned. Should I be worried about this? Cause that was so weird and random. I never expected to get a pop up like that on blogspot.com

 

[Halcohol]

You didn't install the program and your virus scan didn't find anything, so I wouldn't really be worried.

Sites like blogspot and MySpace are getting really bad for having viruses, so be careful.

 

[Catman]

Sites like blogspot and MySpace are getting really bad for having viruses, so be careful.

I wasn't aware of blogspot. But, I do know that myspace is horrible. I even started a thread about that very subject: http://superherohype.com/forums/showthread.php?t=257207

 

[Fading]

First, I doubt it's anything. Many things try and scare you and say you have spyware or whatever in order to make you think you need to download a particular spyware remover to get rid of it.

Second I know it seems extreme and boring at first, but personally I set cookies to 'ask me everytime' in options. At first I didn't think it was a big deal, but when you visit new sites and get asked 20 times if you want to set different cookies and most from places no where near the description of that site it makes sense. Some cookies are spyware or trackers. When that pops up and you push deny then it won't ever bother you again or set that particular cookie. If you mess up and block your favorite site then you can easily click tools>options>privacy tab>cookies>exceptions, and look thru and find the site you didn't want to block and delete it so it'll as you again and you can allow it. I haven't had any spyware show up on ad-aware or spybot search and destroy since I started that up.

 

[Catman]

First, I doubt it's anything. Many things try and scare you and say you have spyware or whatever in order to make you think you need to download a particular spyware remover to get rid of it.

Second I know it seems extreme and boring at first, but personally I set cookies to 'ask me everytime' in options. At first I didn't think it was a big deal, but when you visit new sites and get asked 20 times if you want to set different cookies and most from places no where near the description of that site it makes sense. Some cookies are spyware or trackers. When that pops up and you push deny then it won't ever bother you again or set that particular cookie. If you mess up and block your favorite site then you can easily click tools>options>privacy tab>cookies>exceptions, and look thru and find the site you didn't want to block and delete it so it'll as you again and you can allow it. I haven't had any spyware show up on ad-aware or spybot search and destroy since I started that up.

WOW! That seems like good advice. Thanks.

 

[britrogue]

I really wouldn't worry about it. Most of the time, pop ups like that carry a virus or some form of spyware. They want to scare you into running the search, when in fact, all you will be doing is handing them your computer on a plate. You ignored it which is the best thing to do.

 

[Catman]

I really wouldn't worry about it. Most of the time, pop ups like that carry a virus or some form of spyware. They want to scare you into running the search, when in fact, all you will be doing is handing them your computer on a plate. You ignored it which is the best thing to do.

Thanks. Had I been at a porn site I would be like, "oh okay." But, I was at blogspot.com. So, thats why I was like "what the hell is this?"