Pirate Bay Pitfalls

[Alfonzo]

Let me just explain that I know I brought it upon myself..


Was on Pirate Bay yesterday. Just looking, not down or uploading. Suddenly, IE starts to close and up pops a message from the toolbar telling me my Windows Firewall is off. Weird, I think..from there on in it didn't get pretty. All apps fail and freeze, as does windows. The friggin thing beeps continously at me and can only be stopped by holding the power key in. I was running Avast, and have now had a full malware scan, etc. which found a few things but nothing heinous.

I've had to carry out a clean install. Right pain. Had a 110Gb of work / software on the machine.

And to top it off, although the laptop came with XP Pro installed on it, Dell only supplied a Vista re-install disc. I didn't want Vista, so tried calling Dell to discuss. I won't even start on Dell, what a shower!

Computers. Dont' you just love em.

[wacattack]

why you on piratebay if you arent planning on downloading anything? Seems a little odd to do that just from going onto a site and not downloading anything

[creamsodauk]

i assume he wasnt at the time but does other times!

[Col]

what is pirate bay?

[hockeyhead019]

i assume we're talking about piratebay.org? if so then yes i've heard this problem before with IE crashing... haven't heard any problems with chrome or firefox but they may be effected as well... personally i run a linux system so i really don't have to worry bout it

[Garry Driffill]

Originally Posted by Col

what is pirate bay?

Isnt that a Torrent website?

[sparrow.2]

A silly question maybe but could it have anything to do with ActiveX?

That is one of the reasons I always run Firefox because I've been told it is a lot safer due to not supporting ActiveX.

Reinstalling sucks bigtime