I got a virus from Mylot!

United States
January 23, 2007 10:21pm CST
Some individuals are running illegal scripts on their profile pages. I ran across one page the other day and I got a virus warning but thought nothing of it. Has anyone else come across this.
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29 responses
24 Jan 07
ye i got a virus from here the otherday even managed to get past my virus software wiped out my whole harddrive
2 people like this
25 Jan 07
i was running avg (upto date ) and nortan but that wasent upto date with all the latest ones avg did detect it but it wiped out the harddrive before it could do anything
• United States
8 Jun 07
Man I would have cried if that had happen to me.
• United States
24 Jan 07
Do you remember which profile had the virus?
@kylesmiles (1910)
• United States
24 Jan 07
No. not me. But I don't visit many people's profiles on here. I don't intend to get to know people on here. I prefer myspace and thankthetroops.net to get to know people, since they usually use their own pictures. :) Do you visit a lot of members profiles? :)
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@lauriefnp (5111)
• United States
24 Jan 07
I sure won't be after reading this. What is wrong with these people?
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• United States
24 Jan 07
Everyday I visit lots of profiles to build a friend base. It helps you to get responses to your discussions if you have lots of friends.
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@nana1944 (1365)
• United States
24 Jan 07
I have not gotten one from here. Maybe I am just very lucky or have not visited the same page you did.
• United States
24 Jan 07
Just be careful and watch out for any warning that you may get.
@xiongqh (791)
• Hong Kong
24 Jan 07
NO, I never experience it, I think you can report it to admin to warn the member, or the other will suffer from it. I hate some people do that insert virus on the page, I found mylot is very cleaning, and I never worry about it. I don't want to be affected, it make me crazy if I got it.
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• United States
24 Jan 07
What's funny is that I didn't know that I had gotten a virus until a few days later!
@sahyd2don (2942)
• India
26 Jan 07
yes i have noticed it.But i am shoure none of them had virus on their pages.I think mylot should take care of that.
• United States
27 Jan 07
Agreed. I'm hearing that many people have had this similar thing to happen.
@pinkeagle (202)
• United States
24 Jan 07
I have not run across this but do not think I would know it if I did. Could you report this to mylot? I'm sure they want to know.
• United States
24 Jan 07
I did report. It was just alarming that individuals would do something like that.
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• Philippines
1 Feb 07
thanks for this information. anyone who have viruses on their profiles should be reported to mylot. im glad i have not gone across that profile you were talking about. am afraid now of checking on anybody's profile here. i might get the virus and ruin my computer.
@sweetie88 (4556)
• Pakistan
24 Jan 07
Ohhhhhh. Its a bad news but it never happened with me on mylot but i seldom open sites which people give me here. MyLot is a real paying site and is n't spreading virus and i like it as i've got my money thrice of times from it. Its n't a scam site but u know that good and bad people r present everywhere and i am really shocked to listen such news from u.
• United States
26 Jan 07
Be careful as you view profiles of others.
@budsr03 (2350)
• Canada
24 Jan 07
I recently had a virus, but it was deleted by avg. so I can't trace where it came from. It might of happened after i checked a profile from a person asking for mechanical help. He or she had no avatar pic, no interests and 0 discussions. I don't respond unless i trust a profile now. Take care Myarticlemalldotcom.
• United States
24 Jan 07
Is that avg a virus cleaning program?
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@avonrep1 (1862)
• United States
26 Apr 07
Some people have no respect for others property. We see it time and time again. It is sad. I haven't come acrossed it here at mylot, you did the right thing in reporting it thank you. That is most likely why most of us haven't had a problem with it. Thank you.
@emeraldisle (13139)
• United States
24 Jan 07
Well not sure if it's the person's fault. it could be something someone uploaded into the comment area or a script they are running from another page. They might not have known there was a virus in it. Virus' can be hidden in most anything so it's always good to have an anti-virus program running. And it's very good to report it to mylot so that way they can get it fixed.
• United States
2 Feb 07
You are absolutely correct. I am seeing that some people are posting comments on pages and the page owner may be totally unaware.
@lauriefnp (5111)
• United States
24 Jan 07
Can you let MyLot know and also let us know whose profile you were looking at so that we don't access the same one? Thanks.
• United States
24 Jan 07
I have let them know about it.
@aidonia (4209)
• Greece
24 Jan 07
Never happen to me yet.But i use to visit many peoples profile.After i write this i will be more careful for sure.What kind of people are they?Thank you very much for your warning.
• United States
27 Jan 07
No problem you must just watch out for warnings as you view others profiles.
@elisa812 (3026)
• United States
27 Apr 07
That's awful! I can't believe people on here would do things like that! I fortunately haven't had that happen to me so far, so I hope it never does. I don't usually visit people's profile pages all that often, so I guess that's why I haven't come across anything like that before. Thanks for the warning, now I'll definitely be really careful on here!
• United States
27 Apr 07
The only thing I have ever gotten was a phishing alert, telling me that a post was going to be redirecting me to a fake site. Other than that, not too much. Course then again, I don't go into many profiles.
@estherlou (5015)
• United States
2 Feb 07
There is a new virus that has been popping up on my computer about 6-8 times every hour I spend on mylots. My virus protection catches it and quarantines it, but this has just started happening in the last week or so. It is TROJ_AGENT.RAT
• Philippines
1 Feb 07
i haven't experienced that but thank you for letting us know.
@cultoffury (1283)
• India
2 Feb 07
I can't believe that could happen. I think it might be some useless Javascript just to scare off others. Why do people do such damn things anyways? You should better report this to the myLot authorities.
@firoafame (359)
• Thiruvananthapuram, India
2 Feb 07
which profile did you go through. i think you should report it.
• India
1 Feb 07
I have not come accross what virus does u got and which antivirus software are u using
@seenkung (425)
• Malaysia
2 Feb 07
I don't think I have virus ,my system is operating in the usual mode.