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Anyone else picked up malicious software of spin and wins?


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I have a suspicion that one of the spin and win links has malicious software. Namely the 2nd from last one from the bottom (says browser list) if I recall. Has anyone else had any flashing warning saying "you're computer has been infected with a virus" or found your computer has started to run ridicously slow? Not spinning much these days as a result.

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Yeah, that link has been broken for a couple weeks now... It brought me to a warning page and now every time I click it, it says "redirecting" so I close it out, I have checked my programs and my downloads on my computer and am unaware of any actual viruses but it should still be taken down... another link was broken but seems to be fixed now.

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I have a suspicion that one of the spin and win links has malicious software. Namely the 2nd from last one from the bottom (says browser list) if I recall. Has anyone else had any flashing warning saying "you're computer has been infected with a virus" or found your computer has started to run ridicously slow? Not spinning much these days as a result.

 

I've had warnings that a page might be infected or unsafe, but I've never "picked up" anything from those links.

 

Those scary looking flashing warnings are actually ads, inviting you to click them. They are either trying to sell you something (some almost surely useless, probably dangerous service), or get you to a much more dangerous page to actually infect your computer.

 

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