Just wanted to give everyone a heads up, so share this one like no other. A person liked one of my posts, so I visited their site until my Google Crome Crashed. I made a video for all to see so that you will know what will happen if you visit this site.
Why doesn’t WordPress or Google Chrome do something about this?
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I messaged this person on facebook a while ago, Sept 30th and said that their site might have been compromised with the video showing what happens, but no reply back as of yet, and that site still has that fake ad on the bottom. Last time I went to their site to do that one video which shows just by clicking on the background crashed the browser and in the background downloaded a Trojan. As for why WordPress or Google won’t do anything, you got me!
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I think it’s ridiculous that you have to risk having your blog infected and run around like Sherlock Holmes trying to figure it out when the folks here at WordPress or Google should be doing it.
Thanks for letting us know, though!
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Your welcome Pamela, I had to let everyone know about that one Blog. I did not want anyone to go through a few hours of sanitizing their systems.
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Reblogged this on Mysticalwriter.
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Thanks for taking the time to share this Michael :).
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Just use an adblocker on sites like these, and don’t on sites that you want to help.
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Reblogged on jenlynnart.wordpress.com
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Thanks for the heads up. I will try to remember if I see that photography site.
Janice
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Thanks for the heads up!
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Thanks for the warning. I just got a new PC in May and I stay away from things I don’t trust.
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That’s disturbing. Thanks for sharing Michael.
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This is just terrible!
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It is!
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I had the same guy and stupidly clicked as hadn’t seen this and wanted to see what a fellow blogger was up to. My chrome has been a mess ever since. Can’t load my own wordpress page. Does anyone know how to fix? Been running Anti virus but no joy
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When I ran Windows Defender it found a trojan called: Rougejs/fakecall.D in the temporary internet folder of IE and was able to remove it. You can read more about this at https://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/threat/Encyclopedia/Entry.aspx?Name=Rogue%3aJS%2fFakeCall.D
As for Google chrome, I would take a look at the Extensions that are enabled and disable ones that are unwanted especially unknown extensions. Then close Google chrome and restart it to see if it is behaving correctly. If not, may have to uninstall Google Chrome and re-install a clean version.
It might not hurt to use Microsoft Safety Scanner as well. I hope this helps.
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Ah Michael, you’re amazing. Thank you so much for sharing all of this. Will try it all now.
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Thank you for sharing this and making a video 😃 I don’t prefer IE either for WordPress . And I saw my name in this video .. Hehe 😜
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Thanks for the warning, Michael! Very thorough report.
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Glad you are sharing this. I was actually accused of using a maleware program to gather… usernames and passwords? lol…
People that use these are just sad!
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Good looking out buddy!
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Thank you, Michael. :3
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Thank you, Michael!! I’ve reblogged this on http://crackedrearviewr.wordpress.com to warn others. We’re all in this blogging thing together!
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Yes, we are and you are welcome Gary.
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Reblogged this on crackedrearviewer and commented:
From Michael’s Origin: Don’t get duped by evil trolls!!!
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Michael! Thanks for sharing this. I think I actually am following this site? And they follow me?
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You’re welcome, I just checked again and the site is still up with that fake ad on the bottom, Wallace told me the same thing earlier, so if you guys were following this person before with no problems then his site might have been jacked
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Oh no! That’s terrible! Yes I’ve been following them for a while now!
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Reblogged this on Thoughts, Musings, and Storytelling and commented:
This is not a good thing.
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Reblogged this on jesscombs.com and commented:
Hey guys, wanted to pas this along! Thanks Michael!!!
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I can’t reblog your post Michael.
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That’s ok, I just want to make sure a majority of user are awear
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Thanks for this information!
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Thank you Michael, I will share this one.
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Thank you for the heads up! 🙂
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You’re welcome!
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Apparently, they have deleted their blog.
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That was fast
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That was fastNope it’s still there alive with that ad on the bottom
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Really? When I put in their address, I got a WordPress page that said they deleted it. Hmm…
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http://aniketsharmaphotography.com/
I just pasted this one in Firefox and brought it right up, I clicked on the gravatar icon in the likes of that post and brought it up that way to.
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Looks like they moved off of WP. I won’t be subscribing in any case. I don’t need my laptop getting all hinky-winky.
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I forgot the reblog this earlier. I have since corrected said oversight. 😉
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Hmm, not good at all and I follow that blog. I haven’t had any problems with them as of yet but I may have to do some rethinking. Thanks for bringing it to all of our attentions.
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Yeah, I was going to follow until that happened crashed Google Chrome hard. I wonder if that Blog got hacked?
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That’s always a possibility.
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Reblogged this on Simply Etta D..
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Reblogged this on itsgoodtobecrazysometimes and commented:
Just a heads up for bloggers
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Thank you for the warning and for taking the time to make a video! It’s really appreciated!
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You are welcome
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Thank you, Michael
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I should of put my mud boots on today.
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Thank You! for watching out for us all.
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No problem, I don’t like it when unexpecting users get traped
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thanks for the heads up, there are lots of unsavory sites, particularly political! Thank you so much.
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Google Crome will crash but with IE I was able to back out of it
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I have been having a lot of problems with IE at wordpress, it justs loads and loads and I am unable to access like or reblog. I eventually received a message on my site advising me to change my browser to Chrome, since then I haven’t had any problems. I am annoyed as I (like few) like to use IE. I appreciate the heads up on this.
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You are very welcome, IE is not one of my favorites either but I have to have in events like this
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