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Blackwolves990
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I saw on the web, some subjects were told that cursormania was a scam who gives viruses. and now I fear when an open advertising on AG
why AG would like to put viruses on the site ?

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Efan
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why AG would like to put viruses on the site ?

Not intentionally.
KFK
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why AG would like to put viruses on the site ?


Well, AG doesn't control the advertising on the site.
I think Google runs the adds and they differ from page to page depending on what is written or spoken about on the Forums for example.

For example: Thread: Favorite cars?
Add: Cheap rental cars at McDrive!

(I'm not that creative and this is what I've heard about the ads on AG)
EnterOrion
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All of the popups I get are of things that are run by Zango, who practically fill their programs wit viruses.

I must pose the question: Why do we have popups period? The ads on the side of the page aren't good enough?

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AG doesn't control the ads that are shown on the site. It'll be googles fault. They choose adverts for pages based on keywords on a page - such as running adverts about TVs if the keyword 'television' is on a page. It's a clever marketing strategy for sure but Google doesn't seem to mind who advertises and you get a lot of scams and phishing adverts.

EnterOrion
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and you should never believe some online thing saying you're infected with 100000000 trojans. After seeing one of those your computer likely already has 1 trjon and probably multiple if you downloaded the file.


Never gotten one of those, Kurt. Sorry.

But popups are still unnecessary.
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I get up to 3-4 pop-ups at a time. I x them off, and whenever I click on something else (or not) two more come up. I definitley would not click on pop-ups, but if you really want one of them, I would just search them on google and go to their website from there.

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