There is a possibaly dangerous ad on the front page.

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It looks like a video under the recommended sites section, and if you click it it trys to get you to download mplayer.exe (I highly doubt it is really mplayer). Just tought you guys should know so you could maybe block it, since it was a flash ad that tryed to get you to dl somthing I was unable to get a url. Next time I see it I will try and get it from source....
 
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I once accidentally clicked on an ad that tried to sell me phone apps. (i think they were for android devices) can anyone confirm if these ads are safe.

I think this ad must have given me parts of ZeroAccess, but I remember being a pirate and getting this awfully suspicious sounding (and looking) patchware.

EDIT: I have vmware and a Windows XP VM i'm willing to trash and I may try it with some suspicious apps and hope nothings jumps out or is VMaware!

PS: Is the rumor that viruses can "jump out" of Virtual Machines true? I know the VMaware one is!
Err you shouldnt click random ads but it was probably safe....
 

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