Giveaway of the day
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Giveaway of the day
I was introduced to this site several months ago, and will admit that I have never downloaded anything before, but I thought that today's giveaway might interest anyone who might wish to produce a quiz or test.
http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/
hope this is useful to someone,
BPO
http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/
hope this is useful to someone,
BPO
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Hi BPO
On my PC I have McAfee Siteadvisor, which monitors websites for dodgy links.
It has flagged up "Red Downloads" for this site - downloads that may contain spyware, malware, viruses, etc.
The detailed analysis shows that these particular links are a problem, followed by the nature of the problem:
downloadpspgames.exe
Generic Downloader.q trojan
freeinternetarcadegames.exe
Generic Downloader.q trojan
freepspmovies.exe
BackDoor-AWQ trojan
playarcadegamesonline.exe
Generic Downloader.q trojan
The link you have posted is not listed, but as the giveaway download changes every 24 hours, McAfee may not be catching up with it in time to identify a problem. It may be clean, it may not. I would advise everyone to think very carefully before downloading from the site.
I strongly recommend McAfee Site Advisor, and it is completely free. My kids now know that they should only ever click on links that receive a green tick, and thankfully it has reduced our problems with viruses to virtually nil.
Best wishes
Sally-Anne
Edit: I have now viewed the full list of downloads tested, and as I suspected, today's giveaway has not yet been tested. You can view the list here.
http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/giveaw ... downloads/
On my PC I have McAfee Siteadvisor, which monitors websites for dodgy links.
It has flagged up "Red Downloads" for this site - downloads that may contain spyware, malware, viruses, etc.
The detailed analysis shows that these particular links are a problem, followed by the nature of the problem:
downloadpspgames.exe
Generic Downloader.q trojan
freeinternetarcadegames.exe
Generic Downloader.q trojan
freepspmovies.exe
BackDoor-AWQ trojan
playarcadegamesonline.exe
Generic Downloader.q trojan
The link you have posted is not listed, but as the giveaway download changes every 24 hours, McAfee may not be catching up with it in time to identify a problem. It may be clean, it may not. I would advise everyone to think very carefully before downloading from the site.
I strongly recommend McAfee Site Advisor, and it is completely free. My kids now know that they should only ever click on links that receive a green tick, and thankfully it has reduced our problems with viruses to virtually nil.
Best wishes
Sally-Anne
Edit: I have now viewed the full list of downloads tested, and as I suspected, today's giveaway has not yet been tested. You can view the list here.
http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/giveaw ... downloads/
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