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Posted: Mon, 22/06/2015 07:11 (9 Years ago)
This has been implemented in many other MMO sites so I believe we should do it here as well.
What does the community think?
EDIT: This can made rolled out as an option under Settings, as it might be annoying/useless for some users.
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Posted: Mon, 22/06/2015 07:14 (9 Years ago)
Now, I'd say that's a task well taken care of! Uh… were you expecting something more?
Posted: Mon, 22/06/2015 10:12 (9 Years ago)
If you're that concerned about viruses, you probably have an anti-virus installed on your device, which automatically blocks 'unsafe' sites.
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Posted: Mon, 22/06/2015 10:26 (9 Years ago)
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Posted: Mon, 22/06/2015 16:14 (9 Years ago)
And as I said in another thread, on my phone I can't hover and see where a link leads. This has lead to me trying to be helpful "Pls interact with my pokemans" and ending up on a site like IPEEDALITTLE or a screamer site.
And honestly, I'd rather be warned.
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Posted: Mon, 22/06/2015 23:19 (9 Years ago)
As for virus protection programs, those cannot save you from having to click through all the garbage on Ipeedalittle or save you from hearing the insanely loud screams on screamer sites. They also cannot save you from pop ups of which you cannot close at all, and those do exist to troll people and etc, and the only way to close them is to pretty much forcefully restart your entire computer.
Virus protection programs do in-fact protect you from viruses but they can't always be 100% accurate 100% of the time and stuff can be skipped over and missed with them from time to time, unless you scan regularly, and you should, then stuff can still infect your pc even if you think your virus protection software has you 100% safe.
I have indeed done scans before and found trojans and what not on my PC that my virus protection program never warned me about at all.
Also, Dakar, I do believe not all anti-virus programs block all un-safe websites just like that, that is just is not how is works for the most part, there still can be slip ups and those can lead to you obtaining viruses unknowingly and nobody wants that.
Posted: Mon, 22/06/2015 23:44 (9 Years ago)
I know that my computer's firewall is faulty, why just earlier I had a warning saying my computer is infected.. besides the point
I know that Flight Rising has this.
My dad is always telling me to be careful as to what I click because a link may take me to a virus infested website. If something were to stop me from viewing a page before i actually went to it, I think it might be a bit more safe. Then I wouldn't have to worry as much about clicking links as much.
Like Nessy said, some people post things that have nothing to do with what they actually lead you to. If you could just see what the page you were going to before you go to it was, it'd be a bit more helpful with safety and such.
Posted: Mon, 22/06/2015 23:46 (9 Years ago)
Dakar
Mobile users and Xbox users don't have virus protection lmfao
but hell yes take my support
This would help against sites like 'Ipeedalittle'
Posted: Mon, 22/06/2015 23:47 (9 Years ago)
Posted: Mon, 22/06/2015 23:57 (9 Years ago)
Yodel
Also, there are many good mobile antiviruses, both for Android and iOS.
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Posted: Tue, 23/06/2015 00:01 (9 Years ago)
Posted: Tue, 23/06/2015 00:06 (9 Years ago)
That aside, considering the fact that flaws EXIST, I'd say I support if this was an option, as mojoryan said. I honestly don't mind viruses on my computer, and I sometimes voluntarily visit 'unsafe' sites, so yeah.
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Posted: Tue, 23/06/2015 00:10 (9 Years ago)
And you have tried creating a virus that can get past anti-virus programs? I don't know man, did you succeed? Cos if you did you would only be proving that they are in-fact not perfect and can slip up and screw up, further proving the fact that this should be implemented. Even if you did not succeed I do believe that my argument still stands pretty tall at this point.
EDIT: heck, some viruses can even render your PC useless, mostly only in serious cases but it can still happen.
Posted: Tue, 23/06/2015 00:36 (9 Years ago)
Despite having an anti-virus thing on my laptop, last year all internet browsers were rendered useless because I had somehow obtained a virus that caused several pop-ups to come up every time I clicked something, even if it was just changing tabs. This even got passed my pop up blocker.
I don't know how I got this, probably from clicking on a malicious site.
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Posted: Tue, 23/06/2015 01:34 (9 Years ago)
Because screw Rickrolls.
Posted: Tue, 23/06/2015 02:28 (9 Years ago)
Posted: Tue, 23/06/2015 04:54 (9 Years ago)
Maybe a filter that makes the pop up come up if is not x, y or z page?
Posted: Tue, 23/06/2015 08:14 (9 Years ago)
I fully agree with that, as I keep finding those "iwantyoursoul" thingies. I think that's rude, (opinions, kids, opinions!) as long as there are young heroes here who might believe in those easy clickable likes like "click for 10000000 PD" or "click for infinite nuggets"
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Posted: Sat, 01/08/2015 14:01 (9 Years ago)
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