Antivirus issues

Dr Positivity · Post #1 » by **Dr Positivity** » Sat Dec 12, 2009 6:20 pm

About once a day on realgm, my comp gets hit with a "alpha antivirus/anti antivirus" trojan... basically it makes make a fake imitation of your windows antivirus protection and then says your computer is infected with like 200 trojans and you need to register online to get rid of them. The aim is to get stupid people to give trojan sites their credit card number

Anyways whenever the "your computer is infected with trojans! Anti antivirus will scan your computer!" original message pops up, I just straight up log off and then it never gets on my computer.

At first I thought it was just randomized on different sites, but literally the last 10 times have all happened on RealGM. So my guess is some poster is a virus mole who spreads it through his avatar or sig. I will give a heads up to which threads it happens in when it does. Today it was "Has Anyone Seen This?" on the GB

Dr Positivity · Post #2 » by **Dr Positivity** » Sun Dec 13, 2009 12:04 am

Got one in "Lebron + Bobcats = title?"

bballmaniac27 · Post #3 » by **bballmaniac27** » Sun Dec 13, 2009 11:43 pm

I'm also having this problem.

sp6r=underrated · Post #4 » by **sp6r=underrated** » Mon Dec 14, 2009 3:14 am

Same here

doremi · Post #5 » by **doremi** » Mon Dec 14, 2009 10:57 pm

I get the same problem from time to time.

Post #6 » by **YogiStewart** » Tue Dec 15, 2009 3:34 pm

Dr Mufasa wrote:About once a day on realgm, my comp gets hit with a "alpha antivirus/anti antivirus" trojan... basically it makes make a fake imitation of your windows antivirus protection and then says your computer is infected with like 200 trojans and you need to register online to get rid of them. The aim is to get stupid people to give trojan sites their credit card number

Anyways whenever the "your computer is infected with trojans! Anti antivirus will scan your computer!" original message pops up, I just straight up log off and then it never gets on my computer.

At first I thought it was just randomized on different sites, but literally the last 10 times have all happened on RealGM. So my guess is some poster is a virus mole who spreads it through his avatar or sig. I will give a heads up to which threads it happens in when it does. Today it was "Has Anyone Seen This?" on the GB

i've repeatedly reported this problem to RGM. nothing's been done yet.
its Anti Virus Pro software it tries to sell, right?

my computer was infected to the point where it would shut it down completely.

Post #7 » by **CR Reina** » Tue Dec 15, 2009 7:11 pm

We made an adjustment today that hopefully should solve this issue. Please let me know if it persists.

Dupp · Post #8 » by **Dupp** » Sat Jan 2, 2010 12:34 pm

i had this issue to, also i have to turn my anti virus off to use real gm, only site that i have to do this