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Nielson free deal may include virus?
« on: March 07, 2011, 04:24:51 pm »
     Okay, so i was browsing through some free deals while multitasking with other things to ean a little bit of extra money as I'm new to the site. I se that there is a "Nielson" deal for around 2 dollars, so i decide to take it, then I install the program. First off, for those of you who know about virus protection, you know that its typically a bit over suspicious for the most part, if it's a good virus protection nowthat being said, I have a really good on in Trend micro pro, or at least better than most on he average market, so I generally take in what it says if it tells me its a high risk. When I first downloaded the application, I recieved around 3 "suspicious" warnings about the program that I chose to disregard as it does this once with nearly anything I install.

      Several mins later I was looking at my E-mails, and a message pops up telling me it was trying to change applications used at start up and that it wasa high risk to the computer itself. Basically from what my virus protection told me, the app was trying to take off start up programs and eventually go in to shutting down the applications themselves, so it was automatically blocked. This could serve as a waring for anyone who trys to download the application, so please be a bit hesitant if you decide to, and could an admin please give the application a more complete check and post back to me?


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