Comments on: WTH I stumbleupon a virus!

By: Dwain Sensenbach

Dwain Sensenbach — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 07:01:22 +0000

#trans I will definitely recommend this to my friends

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By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 08:34:21 +0000

Been stumbling for a few years, have found a few… I am my own anti virus Clean system since purchase.

By: hullaballoo

hullaballoo — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 05:52:19 +0000

Using Stumble since before it was famous and just last week got a crippling virus on my work PC (Yeah I know shouldn’t have it on my work PC) Anyway I couldn’t believe it!! And now I wont trust stumble anymore!!

By: Cloud Server

Cloud Server — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 03:34:59 +0000

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By: j-me

j-me — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 22:22:06 +0000

i’m with b cook and adam. exact same thing here. it sucks because i adore stumbleupon but i can live without it. i’m not chancing more viruses.

By: stumbolio

stumbolio — Sat, 09 May 2009 22:03:16 +0000

I have “stumbled over 300,000 sites with no problem! A well set up firefox and there is no problems.

By: Tisi

Tisi — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 23:30:24 +0000

I’ve been stumbling since near the beginning. In the beginning, I really didn’t stumble on viruses. Then it got big. Then it got bought. Now I get repeat pages and a few Trojans and such. Thankfully, my anti-virus IS as good as yours and does catch them before they get to do anything. I stumble on windows and linux and have yet to stumble on a virus that would even function on linux. I know it will happen sooner or later, so I have a good but free antivirus there too

By: embersyc

embersyc — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 08:22:56 +0000

I stumbled upon a virus recently after long-term use of stumbleupon this is the first for me. Spybot popped up a bunch of registry changes, I closed my browser and denied the changes and I think prevented the full attack from occuring but still ended up with Trojan.vundo (according to Malware Remover) and Virtumonde.prx and Windows Firewall Hack according to Spybot every time I reboot my system. Also it hacked Symantec Antivirus LiveUpdate. I ended up having to do a fresh install because I need my system for working, and after two days of dealing with it, I figured reinstalling everything would be quicker. As much as I like and even somewhat depend on StumbleUpon I haven’t installed it yet and probably wont install it again.

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:47:09 +0000

Same exact thing that happened to B Cook happened to me. It has blocked symantec.com, lavasoft.com, mcafee.com as well as definitional updates for my antivirus software. All my google searches return links that redirect me to cheap advertisements. i’ve uninstalled my stumbleupon toolbar and am never using that piece of shit again. I feel helpless as far as this virus goes, though.

By: B Cook

B Cook — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:19:43 +0000

I stumbled upon a virus… my anti virus software did not stop it. It was masquerading as some sort of a windows xp virus licence agreement update (alarm bells) to which i did not click install/i agree… i then noticed it had changed my background to an error message … suspicions confirmed. I have no idea what would have happened if we had clicked install as the virus seems to work well enough without that level of input from me. It restarts the computer every time you start up and seems to have erased all the system restore points (probably among other things) … it is currently in safe mode running a virus scan with no joy yet… (other computer obviously)