So the Escapist just freaked me out

[Kuchinawa212]

Did anyone else get this? Is it a joke? Is my google chrome having a good laugh at me? Should I be worried?

 

[Korten12]

Did anyone else get this? Is it a joke? Is my google chrome having a good laugh at me? Should I be worried?

Never have gotten that before, and yes you should be worried.

 

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

Your chrome has been (hi)jacked.

 

[MorteSphere]

You have one ugly skin.

And yeah I'm not getting it.

 

[MurderousToaster]

That's happened to other people. Not me, but it's happened to other Chrome users. I'm pretty sure that there's no danger, though. I've been on this site for two years and not been compromised by the Escapist.

 

[Kaboose the Moose]

Chrome had detection issues...or so I heard. Someone else mentioned this a while ago as well in another thread. I doubt this site has malware but if you want peace of mind,,,use Firefox. Ignorance is bliss.

 

[Numachuka]

There have been many threads with the solution.
Go on options then "Clear Browsing Data". That fixes the problem.

 

[Kuchinawa212]

That's happened to other people. Not me, but it's happened to other Chrome users. I'm pretty sure that there's no danger, though. I've been on this site for two years and not been compromised by the Escapist.

That's what I'm thinking. Esacpist has never steered me wrong.
Preforming a Macfee....Now

 

[Kungfu_Teddybear]

I've never had it on The Escapist but i've had something similar while on Rooster Teeth.

 

[Kaboose the Moose]

That's happened to other people. Not me, but it's happened to other Chrome users. I'm pretty sure that there's no danger, though. I've been on this site for two years and not been compromised by the Escapist.

Have you met Fatmanspoon? He can compromise people really well....

 

[Gxas]

Sigh...

Yay to paying attention to the dozens of threads about this in the past month and a half...

Its nothing to worry about. Just reload the page.

 

[C95J]

no way can this website hurt your computer!

Your computer must be scared of the sheer awesomeness of this website.

 

[imnot]

no way can this website hurt your computer!

Your computer must be scared of the sheer awesomeness of this website.

Indeed, my cpu is melting as I watch ZP.

 

[Kuchinawa212]

There have been many threads with the solution.
Go on options then "Clear Browsing Data". That fixes the problem.

Okay should I just purge everything? It gave me an option for various increments. I already did one hour should I go for more?

 

[Thealchemistofwhite]

The escapist is no doubt fine now, but about a week or two ago, a few sites were attacked with malicious advertisement's, like the Nexus sites. Of course Nexus sites and the various other sites attacked were small modding communities. A site as large as The Escapist is hard to attack, but if you get something like that from a smaller site that you trust, like TESNexus, or Mabinogiworld, no doubt something happened there.

 

[Kuchinawa212]

Sigh...

Yay to paying attention to the dozens of threads about this in the past month and a half...

Its nothing to worry about. Just reload the page.

*sigh* I'm sorry, but it's one of those things that gave me a nice scare. I wasn't planning to comb through old threads while, for all I know, I'm downloading a doom virus

 

[Sassafrass]

From the Tech Team [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/groups/view/Tech-Team] group, directly from Virgil.

I passed the info on to our ad people, but as far as I can tell nothing is on the site, or has been. We aren't even running any ad networks at the moment. It might have been a glitch in Google's malware detection.
Even Google's webmaster tools said there was nothing found on the site.

From the same incident about 3 weeks ago or now. It's been happening randomly to Chrome users since then, so it's a Chrome problem more then likely.

I use Chrome and I haven't had this yet but I'm not worried if it does pop up, just clear the cache.

 

[sheogoraththemad]

never had that, firofox FTW!

 

[Kuchinawa212]

From the Tech Team [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/groups/view/Tech-Team] group, directly from Virgil.

I passed the info on to our ad people, but as far as I can tell nothing is on the site, or has been. We aren't even running any ad networks at the moment. It might have been a glitch in Google's malware detection.
Even Google's webmaster tools said there was nothing found on the site.

From the same incident about 3 weeks ago or now. It's been happening randomly to Chrome users since then, so it's a Chrome problem more then likely.

I use Chrome and I haven't had this yet but I'm not worried if it does pop up, just clear the cache.

Yaaaaay I have nothing to be afraid of!
Thanks guys! I was worried that my computer was about ready to blow up!

I'd give you guys cookies for helping me but I don't know how to bake

 

[zehydra]

silly chrome.