• Responding to email notices you receive.
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    In short, DON'T! Email notices are to ONLY alert you of a reply to your private message or your ad on this site. Replying to the email just wastes your time as it goes NOWHERE, and probably pisses off the person you thought you replied to when they think you just ignored them. So instead of complaining to me about your messages not being replied to from this site via email, please READ that email notice that plainly states what you need to do in order to reply to who you are trying to converse with.

  • IMPORTANT! PLEASE READ!! About the Google Adsense ads being displayed

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    Posted 08/15/2025
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    Yeah, I know. They are a pain in the butt. But they pay the bills to keep my server running. Just a fact of life, I am afraid.

    Want to get rid of them? Simple. Just become a Contributor level member or above and they will be gone. -> Please click HERE."

    Is that too much for me to ask of you to keep this site running? Well, sorry about that. I too wish I could get everything for free. But alas.....

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    Addendum: 01/10/2026
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    Google Adsense ad revenue for December, 2025 was just $30 over the cost of the lease for the server running this site. So, in effect, the money providing the incentive for me to continue running this site is coming SOLELY from the paid memberships and sponsorships here. Which honestly ain't much....

Site not safe???

I've not had any such warning. I am running Safari with Vipre as my anti-virus engine. At least on this PC I am using.
 
Is everyone who has had an issue running Internet Explorer as their browser? If it isn't happening with other browsers, then it may be a IE problem.
 
You know, one thing I have noticed lately about the google ads is that they appear to be oriented towards searches you have made lately on Google's site. So apparently they are scraping IP info from viewers and comparing that to a database they maintain. Kind of disconcerting to see the same Google ads apparently following you around, no matter which site you go to. They used to be keyed off or word content on the page they display on, but that doesn't seem to be the case much any longer.

So that may explain why some people are having problems and others aren't. The ads they are viewing via the Google links are different.
 
WebSlave said:
You know, one thing I have noticed lately about the google ads is that they appear to be oriented towards searches you have made lately on Google's site. So apparently they are scraping IP info from viewers and comparing that to a database they maintain.
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I use a Firefox addon called TrackMeNot to foil such search profiling. I'd like to see everyone using the web to use such a means to render their data collection useless.
They can't tell what I'm searching for because track me not makes random searches in the background (the frequency of which is user defined).

http://mrl.nyu.edu/~dhowe/trackmenot/
 
Clay Davenport said:
I use a Firefox addon called TrackMeNot to foil such search profiling. I'd like to see everyone using the web to use such a means to render their data collection useless.
They can't tell what I'm searching for because track me not makes random searches in the background (the frequency of which is user defined).

http://mrl.nyu.edu/~dhowe/trackmenot/
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Wouldn't it be able to tell that the ones you click links for are the ones you've made a real search for? It keeps track of that, too, I believe, to deal out money for it's users.
 
Clay Davenport said:
I use a Firefox addon called TrackMeNot to foil such search profiling. I'd like to see everyone using the web to use such a means to render their data collection useless.
They can't tell what I'm searching for because track me not makes random searches in the background (the frequency of which is user defined).

http://mrl.nyu.edu/~dhowe/trackmenot/
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Because, y'know, the advertisers paying for you to use things like Google for free just love useless data! :rolleyes:
 
WebSlave said:
It appears to me that it has something to do with Google, and not actually any code on this site. I suspect that if it is actually a valid threat and not the virus code mistaking Google's ad code for a virus, Google has been inundated with complaints and shut that link down quickly.
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It's not just an IE thing... I use firefox.

I think it has to be a google ad related issue. There is another site that I use that is having similar problems.. people getting notices about blocked trojans and I know that the site itself is clean... the only thing people there can see is that those getting it are those not actively blocking ads. I had unblocked ads there last night and before long had my anti-virus give me notice that it blocked a trojan.
 
I just had another on and I was moving from one page to another when it happened.

doc2fauna.jpg
 
Some yrs ago, NIS2006 was also the only AV that cleaned another nasty trojan ('bar_311') which was/may still be in the wild, ref. originated from the Philippines, usually introduced via USB flash drives and thereafter basically upon any later attempts to boot the machine, it immediately does so and simply shuts it down; ie; no means to boot and deal with the bugger, TrendMicro's online scanner bunked my machine when it supposedly cleaned it, but after I reinstalled the OS (system recovery via OEM partitined recovery) Symantec's online scanner fixed it w/o so much as a hickup.

Symantec's website says this about it:

Trojan.Mebroot is a Trojan horse that overwrites the Master Boot Record of the hard disk and uses rootkit techniques to hide itself.

It has been reported that this threat may be installed from the following location using browser exploits:
[http://]gfeptwe.com[REMOVED]

When the Trojan is executed, it creates the following mutex so that only one instance of it is running on the compromised computer at any time:
Global\7BC8413E-DEF5-4BF6-9530-9EAD7F45338B

It then reads the Master Boot Record (MBR) and then scans the partition table to find the active boot partition of the computer.

The Trojan infects the MBR, copying the original MBR to sector 62 on the hard disk.

It then installs its own kernel loader to sectors 60 and 61 of the hard disk.

Next, it copies a rootkit driver near the end of the active boot partition. The Trojan overwrites around 1149 sectors (467 KB) when copying the driver.

Next, the Trojan creates a .dll file in the current folder where it is executed and then runs the following command:
regsvr32 /s [TROJAN FILE NAME].dll

Note: It has been reported that the file name could be mat[RANDOM NUMBER].dll.

It may then restart the compromised computer or display the following message:
Some updates require you to restart your computer to complete the update process. Be sure to save any work prior to the scheduled time.

When the computer restarts, the infected MBR will start the kernel loader located in sectors 60 and 61, which patches the Windows Kernel in memory to load the rootkit driver.

The rootkit driver then hooks the following kernel routines:

* IRP_MJ_READ
* IRP_MJ_WRITE


If sector 0 is read from hard disk, the Trojan will return the original MBR backup stored at sector 62. It will also try to block writing to sector 0, in order to prevent removal.

The Trojan also opens a back door, which attempts to bypass the local firewall and connect to the following location,allowing an attacker to control the compromised computer:
[http://]dkfhchkb.com/ser[REMOVED]
 
I got the same red box about an hour ago for the first time. I just hit back and then clicked on the forum link again and it was back to normal. Using IE. Google is my homepage, I just typed in the address field though, I didn't use Google search or anything. Odd
 
Can't say I've had a problem like this ever on Fauna. I'm running Vista64, using Firefox and AVG.

This is one of the reasons I recommend putting the OS and personal files on separate harddrives. :-]
 
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