Giveaway of the Day Forums » Topic: Advertising on GAotD triggering some anti-virus alerts. https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6582 Giveaway of the Day Forums » Topic: Advertising on GAotD triggering some anti-virus alerts. en-US Sat, 13 Jun 2026 16:33:37 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.2 Anonymous on "Advertising on GAotD triggering some anti-virus alerts." https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6582#post-68081 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:04:49 +0000 Anonymous 68081@https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/

Some of the advertising featured on GiveawayOfTheDay.com may be triggering alerts from your anti-virus programs.
I only see Adds from Google NZ dvd so on,If you in US you will not get NZ ads but adds for US that the way Google works most Google adds are ripoff spyware,A tip don't click adds & pop ups don't click the links that you don't know don't pay for spam if you don't pay it will stop.

Txnnok on "Advertising on GAotD triggering some anti-virus alerts." https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6582#post-68068 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:15:56 +0000 Txnnok 68068@https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/

I use Kasp. IS 2010 with firefox sometimes opera and I installed todays giveaway with no alert's.

It might be picking up we're GOATD has the pop up back to original site or sometimes it goes makers site to.

Prob.just a false alert. What are web settings set to?

 notblocklox on "Advertising on GAotD triggering some anti-virus alerts." https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6582#post-68067 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:19:08 +0000 notblocklox 68067@https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/

@ BritCanuck
Normally I use Firefox only, and there was none such warning by Kaspersky, and neither Ghostery nor AdBlock Plus reported that bug.
The same when launching IE8, neither Kaspersky nor IE's own safty-filter found anything.
Even the online scan found nothing.
May it be possible that there was something nasty in your cache?

However, thanks for your report. One should always keep the eyes open :)

graylox

BritCanuck on "Advertising on GAotD triggering some anti-virus alerts." https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/6582#post-68065 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:00:46 +0000 BritCanuck 68065@https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/

Some of the advertising featured on GiveawayOfTheDay.com may be triggering alerts from your anti-virus programs.

It's not the GAotD site itself, but some of the ads may contain links to suspected phishing websites where personal information may be gathered (I'm guessing that some of those sites may gather that information automatically, without your knowledge or permission, hence the alerts). My AV program just blocks the ad from appearing on the GAotD site.

View a sample (Kaspersky Anti-Virus)
http://img405.imageshack.us/i/gaotdadalert01a.jpg/

Thought you might want a heads-up.