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Offline DellaN

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WOT warning
« on: August 22, 2013, 10:03:24 pm »
Today when I visited the Forum, there was a box on the opening page which read :  " You need to update your version of Media Player.   Update now."
When I clicked on the " Update Now " I got a WOT Warning saying " This site has a poor reputation based on user ratings "   I am wondering how this invitation to go to poor site got onto the ACC Forum  ???   

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Re: WOT warning
« Reply #1 on: August 23, 2013, 08:43:22 pm »
As media player is a Microsoft windows issued/installed program I would expect updates or warnings about this to arrive through the Windows update service, ie they would be installed automatically (assuming you have this function turned on in windows).
If on visiting the forum you have this message then I suspect it is through the advertising which appears at the top of the pages and therefore the site you were directed to was not a genuine MS update site. WOT then picks this up as a suspect site.
As the forum is a free piece of software it is subsidised by the advertising, running a HOST file (in my experience) has removed all the banner adverts. I know some other members run ADBLOCK PLUS and this also stops the banners appearing, remind me next week and I will sort something out to stop the problem occurring for you.
Geoff

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I think Oxygen might be poisonous, it just takes 80 years to kill you.
Do light bulbs give off light or do they just suck in the dark?

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Re: WOT warning
« Reply #2 on: August 24, 2013, 10:29:42 am »
Thank you Geoff.  D.