I sent the following to jpjd to see what his virus scanner detected.
Hi jpjd,
I saw your post about a virus on a poll I created at
misterpoll.com and linked to on
Catholic.com forum, and wanted to find out more.
What did your virus scanner detect? Can you identify what it was? Did you open one of the pop-ups?
If you’re running Windows XP with SP2, you’ll get a drop-down prompt asking you If you want to install some kind of ActiveX control, which of course, you wouldn’t want to do. If you’re running an earlier version of Windows, you’ll have to simply close the pop-up when the page loads, and not install what ever it is.
I never opted to open any of the things that pop-up on that site, or any other, so I can’t say what would happen if I did.
Please let me know what kind of virus you detected, and if it was on the
misterpoll.com page, or one you opened from a pop-up.
I don’t believe there really is a virus on that page, but if there is, I sure want to know about it.
Thank you for your help.
cargopilot
I would never want to link someone to a virus, and I don’t believe that
misterpoll.com is placing viruses on their site. Of course, I can’t say if the pop-ups could be a problem.
If any others who are computer-savy could check this link out, and comment, either by posting or by email to me, I would really appreciate it,
Thanx,
cargopilot