A big Spore.com WTF?

This message was edited 2 times. Last update was at 07/04/2009 17:07:08

I don't know if you guys have noticed this but I have recently wondered why do you have sooo many advertisements now? I've been getting a lot of pop-ups from your site and there is also adult advertising in the actual site. The censored proof is on the right hand side of the two pictures.

SM Blackbird Edit: Images removed.

Omg!!! Wtf!

I know! It was just there out of nowhere! I was just looking at the new popular adventures and it was just there!!!

And they said Macs couldn't get viruses. That looks like a patently viral ad-replacer. When I look at Sporepedia, the only ad I see there is one for that sculpture thing where you can get a 3d model of your favorite Spore creature.

How can it be a virus?

Klokkwork wrote:And they said Macs couldn't get viruses. That looks like a patently viral ad-replacer. When I look at Sporepedia, the only ad I see there is one for that sculpture thing where you can get a 3d model of your favorite Spore creature.

Yea thats all I see aswell.

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WTF?! Now that is going a little too far. A lot of sites have advertizing, but that's crossing the line. Little kids play this game....Although you're right, most likely a virus.

I guess I'm mature enough to not really care, but I'm surprised that Spore.com has that kind of advertisements. I've never actually seen them, but little kids do go on. However, you can potentially see that on any website, it's just the downside of going online, I guess.

Well, I'm doing a virus check now (even though I don't believe it is one) and I will post if the results came back positive or negative.

Why do you need to do a virus check at the moment?

Because I am highly positive I have no virus that is causing this so I just want to make sure it is the site - not my Mac. If I can confirm it is the site then Maxis can try to fix it.

I seriously doubt that is being caused by a virus, it's probably just a random advertisement, but I guess there's no harm in checking.

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Well I haven't ever seen that kind of advertising on this site before, and I don't know anybody who has. Being a PC user, I might be a little more paranoid of viruses, but I wouldn't put it past a Mac virus to swap out advertising codes to pull spots from adult sites for hit-money.

Klokkwork wrote:Well I haven't ever seen that kind of advertising on this site before, and I don't know anybody who has. Being a PC user, I might be a little more paranoid of viruses, but I wouldn't put it past a Mac virus to swap out advertising codes to pull spots from adult sites for hit-money.

mostly all ads are viruses

and i don't log on to the spore pedia.....so i don't really care

But somebody should PM MC

Okay... I finished my virus check... all it found were 3 trojans and are now gone but I still have the wrong ads...