Wow, JAgEx really does read their mail, i sent the massage allerting them.

 

Why did you massage them, it would be better to MESSAGE them

 

GRAMMAR NAZI

I don't think it's entirely Jagex's fault, the advertising company they're using should pay closer attention to what kind of adverts they're putting out.

 

 

 

Unless they knew about it, in which case Jagex should switch advertisers :?

 

 

 

I'm not worried, I'm running Firefox with NoScript on Linux with a few firewalls :-w

 

 

 

Can you believe I set up my comp to dual boot WIn XP and Linux Ubuntu just for Runescape? I knew that I had a trojan on my WIndows and none of the antivirus programs that I could get my hands on were detecting it, so paranoid of getting hacked I got a second operating system :P

just get a pop-up blocker, I'm surprised so few of you don't have one anways, theres alot of good free ones.

You can get banned for blocking ads on F2P. Jagex sneaked that rule in without saying anything :-w

 

I guess you could argue that it wasn't part of the ToS when you joined (if you joined before they made that rule...).

This happened to me last night :?

 

 

 

I should probably do a virus scan later.

something like this happened to me yesterday, heres my short story:

 

 

 

i was loading a f2p world, and a new page popuped up, im like wow did i press something? The page loaded and some anti virus program said my computer might be in danger...and literally started "scanning" my computer right away. The scan took 10 seconds (lol) and it said i had 8 'issues' and told me to install it; i press no, then something else came up saying my computer is at risk if i dont close it. I pressed x on it. still didnt close. My real anti virus program, from windows detected a tojan, and deleted it.

 

 

 

im like..wow..

 

 

 

thats my story. its not safe lol

 

 

 

Exact same thing happened to me. I was stunned. It sucks that something like this'll happen, but eh, nothing is safe on the internet.

just get a pop-up blocker, I'm surprised so few of you don't have one anways, theres alot of good free ones.

You can get banned for blocking ads on F2P. Jagex sneaked that rule in without saying anything :-w

 

I guess you could argue that it wasn't part of the ToS when you joined (if you joined before they made that rule...).

 

I think you got confused with ads and pop ups. RS ads aren't suppose to produce ads, they are just some animated pictures and text on top of your cilent window, since you are just blocking pop-ups that may come out from the ads, it isn't against the rules.

thats why i use the client

 

no adverts in the client

I'm just wondering about people who got attacked by this ad.....

 

 

 

Where you using any 3rd party client like SS or Leetscape? and was it just on f2p worlds or also on the main page?

 

 

 

 

 

I am kinda interest also, did anybody manage to find the source of the virus from your anti virus program etc?

And jagex expect us not to block the ads :/ there's a reason people do block ads... and if they can't keep theirs secure i am much less inclined to allow adds from rs.com to be an exception to my blockers..

 

 

 

specially since i pay them and have never clicked on one of the ads, they really should remove that rule.

Never had that happen to me before... hope it dont either...

Yep, happened to me last weekend. Also happened around a year ago with the exact same "anti-virus" popup. My guess is that both were RS-related.

thats why i use the client

 

no adverts in the client

 

Why is it that the stupidest things I read in each thread come from you?

 

 

 

1) The client is a stripped-down variation of whatever version Internet Explorer you have, which has more holes than Firefox. (Note to the dogmatic Firefox fanboys: Firefox does not guarantee you 100% protection from malware.)

 

 

 

2) There are adverts in the client. If you don't see them, you're either (a) not using the client, or (B) using an ad-blocker.

 

 

 

Here is a wonderful solution. Before anyone starts to say "but it's against their rules to block ads," well, it's also against my rules for them to skimp out on QA for advertisements.

This shows that no system should be without some proper anti-virus program, even if you just use it for playing rs.

Anybody who thinks any non-encrypted site is 100% safe is an idiot. However, Jagex should be more vigilant on how their ads end up on the website. It's lost revenue for them if Trojans and viruses end up making Runescape difficult to navigate safely.

 

 

 

If the worst comes to the worst, they could overhaul their ad system so that Jagex actually looks at each new ad individually and decides what goes in and what doesn't, instead of trusting someone else and asking players to report bad ones which come through, by which time it could be too late.

Something will always slip through and I am aware of that. However you should always have your anti-virus software up to date and not click on fake messages.

Firefox + AdblockPlus = ftw

 

 

 

i'd rather take the absurdly small chance of getting a black mark for blocking an ad than the much larger chance of getting ad/malware from dodgy pop-ups.

Firefox + AdblockPlus = ftw

 

 

 

i'd rather take the absurdly small chance of getting a black mark for blocking an ad than the much larger chance of getting ad/malware from dodgy pop-ups.

 

 

 

+1

The adverts you see are diffrend in every location, in the United States you will get other adverts as in the Netherlands for example... I've never seen the advert yet and I guess I won't ever see it also, but I'm wondering where the peoples live who did get the advert... ;) :P

just get a pop-up blocker, I'm surprised so few of you don't have one anways, theres alot of good free ones.

You can get banned for blocking ads on F2P. Jagex sneaked that rule in without saying anything :-w

 

I guess you could argue that it wasn't part of the ToS when you joined (if you joined before they made that rule...).

 

I think you got confused with ads and pop ups. RS ads aren't suppose to produce ads, they are just some animated pictures and text on top of your cilent window, since you are just blocking pop-ups that may come out from the ads, it isn't against the rules.

Ads on RS aren't pop-ups (a type of ad), they are just pictures, like you said. So if you'll be blocking anything, it will be the ads, which is in fact against the rules.

 

 

 

Basically, if you're getting pop-ups while playing RS, they're not from RS but you have some spyware/adware on your comp.

You can't get a virus from RuneScape in any possible way, but you can get a spyware program/backdoor trojan/virus from one of the ads that rotate on F2P worlds.

 

 

 

It's quite amazing someone would bother doing that, since advertising on RS banners costs several $1,000's per month.. But apparently someone is doing so.

 

 

 

Jagex rules urge you not to block their ads, but here is what you can legally do: Block popups. A banner ad has no reason to produce a popup if you don't click it.

 

 

 

You can get a free popup blocker at: http://toolbar.google.com/

 

 

 

Or alternatively, you can download the safer web browser with an inbuilt popup blocker at: http://www.firefox.com/

 

 

 

 

 

Exactly :mrgreen:

I'm surprised but not shocked. Good thing I use public computers.

Well, luckily there are no ads for members..

 

 

 

I am wondering, would you actually have to click the advert on the page to be infected by this, or just to have it load would be enough? :?

i got the same popup while pking, it bypassed google's popup blocker but not Avast! :D

 

 

 

 

 

but could this possibly be an attempt by jagex to wipe-out the freeplayers? :shock:

As much as I hate to nitpick(well I don't really but anyway) your a little off the mark here.

 

 

 

The adverts are provided by a third party company (servedby advertising iin this case) and hosted on the third party servers.

 

 

 

There have been several fairly high profile (at least if you follow tech news) cases where advertising networks have been compromised and used by the attacks to distribute virus laden adverts (via iframes/flash etc) to client websites. Which from the post you provided an image of, this appears to be a case of, a theory given credence by your description of the trojans behaivour.

 

 

 

Of course to assume that any site has 100% perfect security and will never be compromised is nonsense anyhow.

As much as I hate to nitpick(well I don't really but anyway) your a little off the mark here.

 

 

 

The adverts are provided by a third party company (servedby advertising iin this case) and hosted on the third party servers.

 

 

 

There have been several fairly high profile (at least if you follow tech news) cases where advertising networks have been compromised and used by the attacks to distribute virus laden adverts (via iframes/flash etc) to client websites. Which from the post you provided an image of, this appears to be a case of, a theory given credence by your description of the trojans behaivour.

 

 

 

Of course to assume that any site has 100% perfect security and will never be compromised is nonsense anyhow.

 

 

 

Yup, anything can be compromised in the end.