Malware installed from VLC - Xvid download
The first thing that seemed off was the 'Downlaod Xvid for free!' title with a VLC player image :S So I whent forward to find out if it was bad or not. The actual website of the downlaod appearance was very cheap looking...
Under 'Earn Free ZP' option, in 'Sometrics' completing the 'Download Xvid for free!' left me with malware, this could have been a coincidence that I recieved it from some other source roughly around the same time as the offer I downloaded. Although that seems very unlikely as I never get nasty stuff on my rig. The main program installed was 'Click Potato' (along wiht other wuiet stuff) which is a nasty film/ TV advertising program and can only be removed either by a scan, add/remove programs or manually by delting the dll and HKEY files.
This is just a notice I'd like people to be aware of and so that Z8 can look into it and comfirm it is a bad offer. and so other people can say if they have caught this from that offer.
EDIT: oh, and I never recieved ZP, and the chart shows I never even viewd it and a fair few of those never gave me ZP too even when I did infact complete
Under 'Earn Free ZP' option, in 'Sometrics' completing the 'Download Xvid for free!' left me with malware, this could have been a coincidence that I recieved it from some other source roughly around the same time as the offer I downloaded. Although that seems very unlikely as I never get nasty stuff on my rig. The main program installed was 'Click Potato' (along wiht other wuiet stuff) which is a nasty film/ TV advertising program and can only be removed either by a scan, add/remove programs or manually by delting the dll and HKEY files.
This is just a notice I'd like people to be aware of and so that Z8 can look into it and comfirm it is a bad offer. and so other people can say if they have caught this from that offer.
EDIT: oh, and I never recieved ZP, and the chart shows I never even viewd it and a fair few of those never gave me ZP too even when I did infact complete
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Z8Games can only confirm the fact that Sometrics has the ability to implement surveys under their survey page, and that they can put surveys up there [by implementing the Sometrics plug in, or something along those lines].
If you contact Sometrics, they should be able to remove the survey if it's proved to be malicious. -
Z8Games can only confirm the fact that Sometrics has the ability to implement surveys under their survey page, and that they can put surveys up there [by implementing the Sometrics plug in, or something along those lines].
If you contact Sometrics, they should be able to remove the survey if it's proved to be malicious.
Thanks Hi! You're absolutely right.
We can also issue these reports to the survey companies as well. Which we will do in this case.
You can report these types of things here, or through http://support.z8games.com (this goes for any of the ads on our site).
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