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Lucky Winner Pop Up? Any one else getting this

Jun 10, 2010 at 6:22:53 PM
dr.robbie (175)
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So, the last two times I've got on to Nintendoage, another window has opened saying im the "lucky winner and to take a survey regarding NA. Is this legitimately a survey we should take? Or is this some sort of virus or other pop up? it only has happened when pulling up nintendoage for me.

Thanks,
Robbie

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Jun 10, 2010 at 6:25:55 PM
0xero0 (230)
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I've never seen it on NA, but its on just about every other site

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Edited: 06/10/2010 at 06:26 PM by 0xero0

Jun 10, 2010 at 6:33:00 PM
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I use Chrome and got an ad pop-up which I blocked recently. It was the first time I've gotten this from NA.

Jun 10, 2010 at 6:34:15 PM
arch_8ngel (68)
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Doesn't seem like something Dain would implement.

I'll be there is a phishing thing that ended up in your cookies and just randomly picks sites to pop-up on and act like it's related to trick you into clicking it.

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Jun 10, 2010 at 7:16:20 PM
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Yeah, that doesn't sound like it's attached to NA.

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Jun 10, 2010 at 7:51:49 PM
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I haven't seen anything about this in the Mod section of NA so I'd say it's a scam unless Dain is being sneeky!  Although if it says you win your weight in Bacon it might be Batty playing around!  HEH

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Edited: 06/10/2010 at 07:52 PM by Braveheart69

Jun 10, 2010 at 8:05:54 PM
NewUser123456789 (226)

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I'd have to say either random popup or malware.

Ran a scan of the computer lately?

Jun 10, 2010 at 8:11:09 PM
dr.robbie (175)
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Originally posted by: PSerge

I'd have to say either random popup or malware.

Ran a scan of the computer lately?



it's my wife's computer. gonna have her run it tonight i believe.

it looked really fishy. just didn't know if dain finally sold out to pop ups or something


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Jun 10, 2010 at 8:50:02 PM
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I'll close NA before I put popups on it, and you can quote me on that. This isn't from our site, but probably your computer if I had to guess. Load SuperAntiSpyWare, Spybot S&D and maybe a virus checker like AVG Free.

Jun 10, 2010 at 9:17:48 PM
captmorgandrinker (572)
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Malwarebytes is also a really good program.

Jun 11, 2010 at 6:44:23 AM
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A few weeks ago someone here posted a picture of a girl in the NSFW thread that was hot linked (pulled right from the origin site, not re-uploaded). The picture caused a login prompt to show up which I had to remove. Stuff like that could also be a culprit, but it would happen on every page load, in which case just tell me where it's happening and we'll ensure it gets removed.