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hawksmh

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Malware Alert!
« on: November 18, 2007, 04:09:35 pm »
Yesterday I clicked on the PermissionResearch offer on your free offers pages. One of the free offers from them for a sign up bonus was a word game download. Before I was off their page I had added a malware program to my computer that took ALL day and finally a system restore to remove. Niether McAfee, Norton or Spybot caught it even with their most current updates installed. I was unable to access the internet using Internet Explorer until I did the system restore.

I found a minimum of 4 files/objects in my sys32 folder of windows with PermissionResearch name on them before I did the sys restore.

Just a heads up to anyone going to that site.

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Re: Malware Alert!
« Reply #1 on: November 18, 2007, 06:55:02 pm »
Yup...same exact thing happened to me yesturday on the SAME offer... finally got computer running A-OK today!

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Re: Malware Alert!
« Reply #2 on: November 18, 2007, 10:08:16 pm »
malware i used to have that on my system it downloads on your computer automatically. I also did this offer malware didn't install though

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Re: Malware Alert!
« Reply #3 on: May 25, 2008, 04:32:32 pm »
Yesterday I clicked on the PermissionResearch offer on your free offers pages. One of the free offers from them for a sign up bonus was a word game download. Before I was off their page I had added a malware program to my computer that took ALL day and finally a system restore to remove. Niether McAfee, Norton or Spybot caught it even with their most current updates installed. I was unable to access the internet using Internet Explorer until I did the system restore.

I found a minimum of 4 files/objects in my sys32 folder of windows with PermissionResearch name on them before I did the sys restore.

Just a heads up to anyone going to that site.

hawksmh


Yep been there done that Its a pain
the other is Nielson and nielson who will do that also I had a hell of a time with that one
I no longer download

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Re: Malware Alert!
« Reply #4 on: May 26, 2008, 10:01:20 am »
I never had a problem with permission research


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