Virus on "Roughstock"

rpetersen · Post by **rpetersen** » 14 Sep 2005 4:56 am

One of my favorite places to get lyrics is the "Cowpie Roughstock site", but I'm suspicious they have a virus going on - anyone else experienced it???
Where is another good site for lyrics and chords?
thanx........Ron

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Jack Stoner · Post by **Jack Stoner** » 14 Sep 2005 7:18 am

If you have a current and active antivirus program it should detect any potential virus and block it. Same way always keep an up to date firewall running.

Where was it reported that cowpie was infected?

rpetersen · Post by **rpetersen** » 14 Sep 2005 12:12 pm

My virus detection did pick it up - I also had heard earlier that some were having similar problems with the site - Just wondered if that still was the case??

John Daugherty · Post by **John Daugherty** » 15 Sep 2005 8:26 am

Ron, I did run onto some viruses when I accessed a site for song lyrics. That was about a year ago and I don't remember which site it was.

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Blake Hawkins · Post by **Blake Hawkins** » 18 Sep 2005 11:05 am

The last time I was on Roughstock, there were all sorts of popups and nasty spy ware there.
They had some sort of explanation that they had received complaints but their advertisers wanted it that way.
My protection programs cleaned up my computer but I don't go to Roughstock any more.

Blake

Wiz Feinberg · Post by **Wiz Feinberg** » 18 Sep 2005 12:18 pm

When browsing unknown, untrustworthy websites I always use Mozilla Firefox. Most of the spyware and popup adware that gets installed behind your back is a result of browsing with a not-locked-down Internet Explorer browser. Sleazy websites rely upon the fact that most visitors are using Internet Explorer and that they don't have a clue about locking it down against surrepticious software installs.

FireFox browser does not use ActiveX technology, nor does it allow unchallenged software installations. I highly recommend that anybody who wants to browse such sleazy businesses as the one mentioned above, do so using Firefox, not Internet Explorer.

In fact, I only use Internet Explorer for two things: 1; for testing website designs, and 2; for using Windows Update, which will not run on any other browser. Even though I don't browse the web with IE, I still have it locked down to prevent other programs that use the IE rendering engine from getting exploited. This included Outlook Express and Symantec's Norton Anti Virus products.

Wiz

Jeff Agnew · Post by **Jeff Agnew** » 19 Sep 2005 5:45 am

<SMALL>... for using Windows Update, which will not run on any other browser.</SMALL>

Actually, you can do it using any Mozilla-based browser (or even Opera) and this plug-in.