SPAM possible from your website!

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Tyrsdottir

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I am getting SPAM from your site!

This began yesterday.
I went to the site in chrome, and a "Android anti-virus warning" buzzed my tablet, brought me to a new page, and threw up a pop up saying my "phone" is 28.1% compromised by 4 viruses, and advising me to download a certain app to fix the problem.
This is spam.
I googled it and other people get the exact same message, same percent, etc.
I had to back out of it to avoid possibly having a virus planted by the pop up, and I had to X out of the tab to get rid of the page. It wouldn't allow me to hit the back arrow to get back to your site.

I rebooted and tried again, and got the same thing within 10 seconds of being on your site.
I waited about 6 hours and tried a third time.
Same thing.
This doesn't happen on any other sites I go to.
The only way I am here now is through Google from my email.

You've got a hacker sending this through your site.
You're gonna want to fix that.

On the upside, I didn't know you had an app version. I'll probably try that, but I'm leery of your hacker.
 
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the site has been undergoing a lot of updates
if you go into your user profile you can change your settings for the spam .
as for chrome I haven't been able to find compatibility with our site this has been well over a year.
I'm no computer wizard but your virus protection could be picking up spyware from your server . I know mine does that from time to time .
 
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