Going away for... uhm... Long time

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Tony Manero

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Today my pc crashed 3 times while i was working due to a malware that infected my pc visiting CMON first page. I asked to delete nasty ADS but noone seems to answer... well, i can\'t risk to destroy 4 hours of work everytime i visit cmon gallery and i don\'t want to being forced subscribing here with a Virus menace...

http://www.coolminiornot.com/forums/viewthread.php?tid=16644&pid=276810#pid276810

this is the full story...

i don\'t think

\"No one\'s putting a gun to your head Tony, if you don\'t want to that\'s fine.

By the way, your sig needs to be under 90 pix in height.\" and

\"with subscription you can turn off advertising\" are good answers... they sound like

\"ehy pay the christmas otherwise i\'ll smash your presents...\"

well.. farewell until ads cleaning :)
 
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krom1415

New member
It will be a lesser place without you here, Tony, you have contributed much for all of us learning the mini painting trade.:D
 
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Ogrebane

Active member
Hmm not sure what that was. Was that a dummy spit Tony. You are good at em. We will miss you whilst your gone come back to us soon.
 
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demonherald

New member
Get the tape out and take the measuremet ow...This must be a potential official distace record for the lauchig of the pacifier...I\'ve got this ed..How far does it read anyone????

(on a serious note this is a real shame Tony..I find your WIP in particular most helpful..I must have pretty good virus protection as I have\'t had ay probs with that even when logged out but do get the occasional pop up that tries to worm it\'s way in but ...\"Computer say\'s Noooooo...\"...hope the sabatical isn\'t too long and we see ya soon)
 
EArkham

EArkham

Necromancer
Chern Ann has asked for folks to identify the ad that\'s doing it so that he can remove it. Has anyone done that yet?

Kep
 
airhead

airhead

Coffin Dodger / Keymaster
couple of things in this day and age. Viruses are not the worst of the problems. Spyware can bring a computer to its knees as well.

Spybot Search & Destroy (free) will disinfect your machine and help keep it that way.

Adaware (you gotta pay for this, but not much) will pick up a few that spybot misses.

AVG, Norton or Macafee anit virus (there are others out there, but I have not used them so cannot say how good they are). Most of the newer viruses jump to Norton or Macafee and remove themselves from the search criteria. That is why I use AVG now.

Google.com and load the toolbar - one of the best free pop-up blockers out there (sorry Chern).

With these in your toolbox, you will not be invulnerable, but you will be well protected. In this day and age, not using these products or similar would be like having sex with a hooker unprotected - just plain dumb.
 
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electrolito 77

New member
It is sad to hear. I personally have not had an rpoblems with the site. We will be here until your return.... your WIP threads have helped me a lot. I just don\'t post a lot cause I don\'t have the time. Hope to read new stuff of yours on the forums soon!:yes:
 
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Modderrhu

New member
Originally posted by EArkham
Chern Ann has asked for folks to identify the ad that\'s doing it so that he can remove it. Has anyone done that yet?
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I turned ads back on to see what would happen - nothing. I think those ads are targetted towards specific locations. US users will get ads that are likely to appeal to US people. Italian users will get content of Italian (dis)interest. South Africa just plain tends to get ignored. lol
Originally posted by airhead
With these in your toolbox, you will not be invulnerable, but you will be well protected. In this day and age, not using these products or similar would be like having sex with a hooker unprotected - just plain dumb.
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Then I\'m just plain dumb. I run no anti-virus software, no ad-blocker, no popup-blocker. I\'ve had a single adware incursion in the last 7 years, which I removed manually, and said \"Good-bye\" to IE, and \"Hello\" to Firefox. Maybe this is my jinx, and I\'ll get hammered in the next week, but; I believe the best protection is vigilance and knowledge.

One of the first things you should be familiar with, is the list of valid tasks which you expect your computer to be running at any point in time. Check the Windows Task List, and get to know what all those processes are. Or at least, make a note of them. Check the list periodically, to check that nothing new and unwanted is running on your computer.

And so, with apologies to Chern Ann, the >>Hosts File<< ought to be one of our first lines of defence against unwanted ads. Here\'s the content of mine, and I cannot remember when I last saw an external ad on any site;
127.0.0.1 localhost
0.0.0.0 ad.yieldmanager.com
0.0.0.0 ad.integrity.net
0.0.0.0 ads.amateurmatch.com
0.0.0.0 pagead.googlesyndication.com
0.0.0.0 pagead2.googlesyndication.com
0.0.0.0 adservices.google.com
0.0.0.0 ad.doubleclick.net

Whenever I see an ad, I check where it\'s coming from, then add it to my hosts file.

None of this is bullet-proof, and everyone is free to call me a moron for running no protection software. Thing is; even today, a number of computers at work picked up various virii and trojans, and each of them had anti-virus software running. Why is it that my computer remains squeaky clean? ???
 
Dragon Forge Design

Dragon Forge Design

New member
Tony, why not just bookmark the forums and avoid the front page.

As for feeling like your held hostage of the pay or you cant play..this site does consume a huge amount of band width and any privately run site of this size has some form of subscription fee to keep it operateing. I find the few dollars a quarter to be well worth it.
 
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Torn blue sky

New member
I paid because Chern turned up at my door with a blackjack and some angry looking men...
Tonys got every right not to subscribe, it\'s just the viruses in the popups that are the issue lol
 
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Primeval

New member
Originally posted by Tony Manero
I asked to delete nasty ADS but noone seems to answer...
http://www.coolminiornot.com/forums/

i don\'t think

\"No one\'s putting a gun to your head Tony, if you don\'t want to that\'s fine.

By the way, your sig needs to be under 90 pix in height.\" and

\"with subscription you can turn off advertising\" are good answers... they sound like

\"ehy pay the christmas otherwise i\'ll smash your presents...\"

well.. farewell until ads cleaning :)
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Nothing personal, but you got an answer, it just wasn\'t the one you wanted; doesn\'t mean it wasn\'t a good answer.
 
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supervike

Super Moderator
Originally posted by Modderrhu

One of the first things you should be familiar with, is the list of valid tasks which you expect your computer to be running at any point in time. Check the Windows Task List, and get to know what all those processes are. Or at least, make a note of them. Check the list periodically, to check that nothing new and unwanted is running on your computer.

Here\'s the content of mine, and I cannot remember when I last saw an external ad on any site;
127.0.0.1 localhost
0.0.0.0 ad.yieldmanager.com
0.0.0.0 ad.integrity.net
0.0.0.0 ads.amateurmatch.com
0.0.0.0 pagead.googlesyndication.com
0.0.0.0 pagead2.googlesyndication.com
0.0.0.0 adservices.google.com
0.0.0.0 ad.doubleclick.net

Whenever I see an ad, I check where it\'s coming from, then add it to my hosts file.
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I\'m confused...I thought the hosts file was used to tell your system which addresses to connect with....by putting these in there as such, are you effectively blocking them? What are the dummy ip addresses for?
 
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