IGN Malware?

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IGN Malware?

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I tried to go to wi.ign.com to read a review of the new WiiWare snowboarding game and Chrome told me that the site's ads are full of Malware.
Anyone else get this error?
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I'm not going to try, but I will say that any site can get infected with anything. I got hit with this fucker years ago from msn.com.
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I wouldn't doubt it. I've gotten a trojan from a rotating banner ad on a reputable site just recently; was enough people being effected that they had to work to make sure the ad was removed.
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I just use adblock and no script. No problems from any sites, now.
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You realise this thread is over a year old right?
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Niode wrote:You realise this thread is over a year old right?
It was on the front page. With the blue new posts sign. No I didn't. I remember, When I posted that there was a more recent post.
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This forum it seems occasionally shifts between parallel universes. That happened to me just a few days in another subforum.
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It might have been bumped by a spammer that has since been deleted.
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Hobie-wan wrote:It might have been bumped by a spammer that has since been deleted.
This is the most likely solution. At first, I was freaking out that Mozgus randomly returned, but then I saw the post date.
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