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Again... It is possible to get "infected" as we use third party advertisers over which we do not have any control. So if a third party is spamming or sending crap then it is possible it is shown @ GCW, even when we are totally against this crap. Usually the advertising company showing the 3rd party advertiser will remove the crap asap but sometimes it is quite hard to see who is doing this as most ads are geo-targeted to a specific country or region, this means most users (including us) will never see this crap!
Most of the free sites in existence are using 3rd party ads and they have exactly the same problem...
If there was other/better alternative advertising then we would use it but this simply does not exist anymore... The hosting bills have to be paid and this ain't cheap running 10-12 servers worldwide!
So just be prepared that it can happen and make sure you are protected (but this is nothing new... if you are well protected nothing can "screw-up" your system, unless you are stupid to trust the contents of "popups", you have to be suspicious if something happens that never happened before!)
We are getting at least 20-30 emails per day from people who genually think a certain file is infected but in all cases they are false positives, this is something we can never fix unless AV software is updated properly. It's frustrating but we are getting immune about this and just delete these emails...
Some people think that we are sending this crap on purpose, if you are one of these people then just go elsewhere and do not come here complaining about it. It's the current state of the internet and it will only get worse!
Our policy over the past 10 years has been (or at least try) to never show malware, trojans, virusus & popups of any kind, this policy has not changed!
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