When I landed on the initial contest page yesterday, (not the sign in page, but the page where you select what game to play), I had a warning pop up, (probably AVG, but I can't remember for certain), that said there was a "Exploit Facebook Scam" and stating a URL for RewardCabana.com. I didn't think much of it since I was unlikely to click on a link on the page, and closed the box. It wasn't until I opened Chrome again this morning that I noticed that something had actually opened a new tab with a rewardcabana URL.
While I supposed it is possible I mistakenly clicked a link on the page, I only had Chrome open for a minute and about all I did was take a look at the current high score, and then quickly closed Chrome until I opened it again today.
This may be nothing, but I figured you might want to know about it anyway.
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Webman
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It sounds like you may have spyware on your computer. I would run a scan with your antivirus/malware software, or download one for free.
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TsuDoNihm
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It is possible, but I run AVG nightly, ran Malwarebytes yesterday and Ad-Aware this morning yet it happened again today. So I did a little digging to see what I could figure out about it.
The "alert" is from AVG, apparently from their "link scanner", and the alert pops up when this page is opened:
http://rewardcabana.com/content/yt/oos_ ... udio=&js=1
I opened it again with Chrome to be sure, (I only use Chrome when I'm at Videopoker.com), then I tried it with FF and both times I got the same warning.
A google search on "rewardcabana" has only results from AVG, so they apparently think it is a "threat", and block it, but I couldn't find any other references to it.
So now I know where the alert was coming from, but that still leaves open the question of how a tab with that URL has opened twice in my Chrome browser without my clicking on it. Its possible that its a chrome issue but I didn't find any conclusive evidence online that this might be the case.
I've seen a similar thing, (At the LVA a few years ago), where an ad was running a script that allowed it to open a page, (I can't remember if it was a pop-up, tab, or new browser window), without anyone clicking on it, and thought that the same thing might be happening here.
And that's why I brought it up, just so you know that there might be something going on. It isn't that large of a threat, and doesn't really bother me, but I figured if there was a possibility that something out of the ordinary was going on you'd want to know about it.
The "alert" is from AVG, apparently from their "link scanner", and the alert pops up when this page is opened:
http://rewardcabana.com/content/yt/oos_ ... udio=&js=1
I opened it again with Chrome to be sure, (I only use Chrome when I'm at Videopoker.com), then I tried it with FF and both times I got the same warning.
A google search on "rewardcabana" has only results from AVG, so they apparently think it is a "threat", and block it, but I couldn't find any other references to it.
So now I know where the alert was coming from, but that still leaves open the question of how a tab with that URL has opened twice in my Chrome browser without my clicking on it. Its possible that its a chrome issue but I didn't find any conclusive evidence online that this might be the case.
I've seen a similar thing, (At the LVA a few years ago), where an ad was running a script that allowed it to open a page, (I can't remember if it was a pop-up, tab, or new browser window), without anyone clicking on it, and thought that the same thing might be happening here.
And that's why I brought it up, just so you know that there might be something going on. It isn't that large of a threat, and doesn't really bother me, but I figured if there was a possibility that something out of the ordinary was going on you'd want to know about it.
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