Well, it makes me suspect more that this is a problem on Rick's end, rather than mine. AVG is a reputable AV program, so it struck me as very odd that he was getting hijacked by ads for them. Makes me think there is a hole in his browser security, which is why I suspect he is still on IE (which is like swiss cheese in terms of exploitable back-doors).
I keep a pretty tight grip on my browser security, myself:
-AVG Browser Security (scans pages before you click the links)
-Firefox
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Ad Block Plus (
http://adblockplus.org/en/)
And if all else fails, MalwareBytes is quite good at destroying anything that makes it past.
This post has been edited by Thomas Kaira: Mar 9 2011, 12:59 AM