They almost tricked me!

United States
July 11, 2008 4:38pm CST
Just now, I was surfing around another blog and happened to click on one of their Google ads to look at something interesting. It was an ad for Price Exposed/priceexposed.com, the Google ad said they are some kind of price comparison and shopping search engine that helps you locate best prices. I felt safe since it was a Google ad. But, Google popped up a warning page that told me the website was known for downloading spyware, trojans and adware. And they advised me not to proceed. Of course, I shut down the page and went no further. I just wanted to pass this info along. If you see a Google ad ANYWHERE on the Internet that says, Price Exposed or priceexposed.com, don't click on it. I am not going to post the full clickable link cause someone might accidentally click on it. You could clearly see the name of the website at the bottom of the google ad. That was the link. Have you ever clicked on a link before and had Google pop up to warn you that you were about to enter a known bad site? Did you go anyway? Did you report the site?
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@Shaun72 (15959)
• Palatka, Florida
11 Jul 08
I have heard the same thing from a friend of mine that used goggle. I guess we just have to be carful with everywhere online. Just like a minute ago i had to research mylot to figure out how to log in.
• United States
12 Jul 08
Really? I knew they'd made some changes, but hadn't realized the login procedure had changed. My computer just logs me in. Probably will be an issue that I face after clean off the cookies!
@Shaun72 (15959)
• Palatka, Florida
12 Jul 08
Yeah it is at the top now where you log in at. I got so use to going to the left side to log in so it confused me at first. I am getting use to things in here now though.
• United States
12 Jul 08
Thanks for telling me where it was. I was really worried, cause sometimes the system logs me out and I didn't know where to login again!
@Shawchert (1094)
• United States
11 Jul 08
Thank you very much for telling us this, I appreciate it :D
• United States
12 Jul 08
You're most welcome! Happy to pass along any info that might spare others a bad case of trojan horse or spyware! That can kill a computer!
• Canada
11 Jul 08
Thank you for the warning. It's nice to know that people are out there watching out for us, and making sure that our computers don't get infected by all sorts of crap. Thank you very much for passing this along to us, here on MyLot.