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Need opinions please. Made an offer for $300 to purchase a 3 char dot-org from a Platimum Member who had the name listed in his sales thread.
Immidiately after I sent PM confirming the deal I visited the url for the first time (don't know why I did not do it before, for some odd reason thought it was a sedo park page so never bothered, very stupid of me of course). My Norton went on right away saying I just got a nasty (high risk kind) virus sent to me from the url. Not only was it a nasty virus but worse yet as it even locked up my PC forcing a hard reboot using the on/off switch, even a soft reboot failed.
Thinking it was an error went back to the url and same thing happened 3 more times. Next went to another 3 char org he was selling in that thread and same thing, same nasty virus, same freezing of my computer. Later visited the same 2 urls a few times in error when accidently click on them, same thing over and over again. If not for Norton my PC would be toast.
It appears after sending the very real virus a screen is designed to come up selling antivirus and anti spyware software with a link to an order form. Of course we have all seen that before with false warnngs you may have a virus or spyware installed but never with REAL VIRUSES being sent as in this case.
When I asked the seller about this his answers were not too satisfying, and he did freely admit he knew about the real viruses beforehand and even admitting it was part of that affiliate program he was selling promoting the virus removal program!
Also troubled by his lack of regret over his poor judgment in selecting such an affiliate program. He basically simply said was he can not remove it now as his FTP is not working. He also will not say how long it has been online so I can determine how much damage it did to the public and possibly other dnf members too who may not be running Norton or perhaps Norton was misconfigured.
Told him several times how I was really distrurbed over this and also am now hesitant buying the name for fear that the virus program has been online for some time and infected perhaps thousands of users who went to the url.
The name was advertsied as a traffic name getting 260/visits a week so can you imagine how many this effected over a possible long time span? Some of them may be sending hate mail or possibly complaining to the ISP, not good when you want to use a name as a developed website, which I was going to do.
Now he is saying he spent the money I offered him based on my transaction and seems to be saying in not so many words that I am renegging on a purchase deal. Any opinions on this will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Immidiately after I sent PM confirming the deal I visited the url for the first time (don't know why I did not do it before, for some odd reason thought it was a sedo park page so never bothered, very stupid of me of course). My Norton went on right away saying I just got a nasty (high risk kind) virus sent to me from the url. Not only was it a nasty virus but worse yet as it even locked up my PC forcing a hard reboot using the on/off switch, even a soft reboot failed.
Thinking it was an error went back to the url and same thing happened 3 more times. Next went to another 3 char org he was selling in that thread and same thing, same nasty virus, same freezing of my computer. Later visited the same 2 urls a few times in error when accidently click on them, same thing over and over again. If not for Norton my PC would be toast.
It appears after sending the very real virus a screen is designed to come up selling antivirus and anti spyware software with a link to an order form. Of course we have all seen that before with false warnngs you may have a virus or spyware installed but never with REAL VIRUSES being sent as in this case.
When I asked the seller about this his answers were not too satisfying, and he did freely admit he knew about the real viruses beforehand and even admitting it was part of that affiliate program he was selling promoting the virus removal program!
Also troubled by his lack of regret over his poor judgment in selecting such an affiliate program. He basically simply said was he can not remove it now as his FTP is not working. He also will not say how long it has been online so I can determine how much damage it did to the public and possibly other dnf members too who may not be running Norton or perhaps Norton was misconfigured.
Told him several times how I was really distrurbed over this and also am now hesitant buying the name for fear that the virus program has been online for some time and infected perhaps thousands of users who went to the url.
The name was advertsied as a traffic name getting 260/visits a week so can you imagine how many this effected over a possible long time span? Some of them may be sending hate mail or possibly complaining to the ISP, not good when you want to use a name as a developed website, which I was going to do.
Now he is saying he spent the money I offered him based on my transaction and seems to be saying in not so many words that I am renegging on a purchase deal. Any opinions on this will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.