deviantArt is a clean site (at least in my experience), and many of us in the art forums (collectors or artists) use it to showcase work done for us or work we've done. Perhaps there is something else in your computer that caused the contamination, perhaps a different site you've visited left something behind. In any case, I don't think DA is the problem.
If I was more computer saavy I'd offer more advice, but I'm sure someone else could offer a helping hand. In any case, good luck 
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I just started looking at this site a few days ago.
Thus far, I've run into one site that generated an adobe security warning. Today, another page that generated runaway new tab generation in IE - that I could only stop by pulling the plug on my PC.
Any idea how prevalent this crap is, and if deviantart is something to stay away from? I like some of the art on the site, but not so much that I want to risk contamination of my PC....
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I don't know what exactly you're clicking or viewing on the site, but I've been a member there for upwards of five years and never had any of the experiences you're talking about. Although I might wager part of your difficulties being the use of internet explorer; but that may just be my personal angst against such a ... corporate monopoly program 
You might otherwise need to update either some aspect of IE or otherwise Adobe but you shouldn't be running into difficulties.
Aside that, a good portion of the Art Community here use deviantart
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Yup. You've either clicked out of DA, or have some sort of Trojan on your computer already, because I've never had anything of this sort happen!
If this is happening because of DA, you should be able to reproduce it by going back to those pages to confirm that it happens again. If you can, then you should report those pages to DA for them to moderate.
I haven't use IE at home in years, but I've never had issues on dA with either FireFox or Chrome.
IE is notoriously buggy on a number of sites. At work, CNN.com or Foxnews.com crashes IE 2-3 times an hour.
Locking up your entire PC, that's probably more than just a website. Might want to check all or Virus and firewall protections are up to date. If the problem persists, I'd seek help in the CoH tech forums. Those folks are both knowledgeable and helpful.
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Change to Firefox, and run a thorough malware, adware and virus scan on your computer. DA's clean and has been in the 5+ years I've been there. But definitely: stop using IE. It's a trap.
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Yup. You've either clicked out of DA, or have some sort of Trojan on your computer already, because I've never had anything of this sort happen!
If this is happening because of DA, you should be able to reproduce it by going back to those pages to confirm that it happens again. If you can, then you should report those pages to DA for them to moderate.
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I tried the "This is all I got" link on the "challenge - Hellions that have gone to Hell" thread twice. Happened both times.
I don't remember where the adobe error occurred, it was several days ago.
I don't think it's my computer or IE, I have never had this issue before on any website. My antivirus software does a good job of keeping itself up to date, and it hasn't detected anything.
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Then you need to download malware and ad ware detectors, because there is nothing on DA that does it. But seriously: Deviantart was the reason I switched from IE to Firefox. IE cannot keep up with the graphics and code used there.
Lavasoft's AdAware is free, does a very good job of keeping cookies and tracking things off your computer;
Malwarebytes has an incredibly good malware/virus scanner. Also free. I recommend using both of those.
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Tried the same link and got nothing like you're describing (just a picture and nothing else). Not so much as a pop-up. It sounds like you've got a pre-existing problem that has nothing to do with DA (which I've also used problem free for years).
I suggest going to Downloads.com and getting spybot and/or AVG and running both. You can also run Housecall at trendmicro.com or the home scanner at either Kaspersky.com or F-secure.com to see what's on your system.
Good luck, it sounds like your system is one step from being hosed.
i don't think it is DA...it is clean site...sounds like some kind of virus or trojan to me...get antivir dude..
The ONLY thing I can think of that would possibly cause that is if you weren't logged into DA (cos then they serve ads to you). But DA's ads are mostly DA-related, if recollection serves, and they're very low-key about them, no pop-ups.
It's probably something on your system that is triggering off a keyword or something. Get it scanned, get it cleaned.
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They have been kinda ramping up their ads but they're all dA related. I've been using Firefox and I haven't had any issues. Definitely clean out your system with some free anti-virus and anti-
spyware programs first.
I already have the Mcafee Internet Security suite, which supposedly protects against spyware - I havent had good experiences in the past with having multiple security tools installed.
I'm now inclined to think it's an IE issue. The IE that comes with Vista is a buggy pile of crap. Tends to lock up at times, regardless of the site. Don't even get me started on Vista itself.
Thanks for the help.
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I already have the Mcafee Internet Security suite, which supposedly protects against spyware - I havent had good experiences in the past with having multiple security tools installed.
I'm now inclined to think it's an IE issue. The IE that comes with Vista is a buggy pile of crap. Tends to lock up at times, regardless of the site. Don't even get me started on Vista itself.
Thanks for the help.
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2 things.
McCaffey sucks, always has. Over priced and offers comparable or less protection than free software such as AVG or Avast.
IE has always been buggy. It was buggy on XP when I abandoned it. I suggest trying Firefox or Chrome. Chrome is newer so there are a few sites you can't use it for but that list shrinks daily. Chrome is powered by Google.
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I use IE8, IE7, google Chrome and Firefox every week (in that order of preferrence) and visit DeviantArt several times a week whenever I'm not working or idly waiting for tasks to complete (SysAdmin for a govt. agency).
I've never heard of such a bug. Ever.
The recommendations for getting your PC scanned with a current antivirus (free ones like Avast! can do a great job - or visit your favorite, Almost all have an online scanner option now) are sound.
Follow that up with an anti-malware prog like Super AntiSpyware or AVG's solution. Then set up Spybot's Search and Destroy and use the Tea timer module.
As for the browser solution, with all the respect I can have to my fellow CoH players, it really doesn't matter. Use the one that works for you.
IE may be buggy on certain sites specifically designed not to cater to it's proprietary interpratations, Firefox could bomb on your favorite online flash games, etc.
I like Chrome, personally, but 85% of my time is spent on IE8 and IE7, since I need the added functionality it provides.
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McAffee is well known to be a pile. Definitely switch it out, because it's not gonna detect a lot of things. Besides: the others mentioned are still free. You can't really lose by having more than one way to detect things.
Note: Malware, Spyware, Adware and Viruses are all very different things, and not every program detects all of them. Mcaffee definitely does NOT.
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Just a thought, since I no almost nothing about the magic computer boxes, but could it be an adult content warning of some kind?
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I already have the Mcafee Internet Security suite, which supposedly protects against spyware - I havent had good experiences in the past with having multiple security tools installed.
I'm now inclined to think it's an IE issue. The IE that comes with Vista is a buggy pile of crap. Tends to lock up at times, regardless of the site. Don't even get me started on Vista itself.
Thanks for the help.
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Yup, I went through a rond of having troubles with IE and Vista too!
Either shutting things down and shutting IE down with some odd runtime error.
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Just a thought, since I no almost nothing about the magic computer boxes, but could it be an adult content warning of some kind?
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Nope.
The deviantart websites adult filter basically works by not allowing any logged-off person to view the image if it's correctly tagged as adult, along with those who ARE logged in but aren't old enough to view.
They do NOT have any outside buggy popups, and any good ad-filter (such as adblocker plus I'm using on ff3) will simply remove ALL their ads, banners, and the like.
Hell ABP once tried to block the entire site of Google if I'd clicked it wrong lol.
I'd definitely still use firefox with an ad blocker, don't bother with mcaffee, and use other sourced detection systems as they've been pretty well proven to work and not give their own whopping problems.
Though on Vista... lol, dunno, that's all foreign territory to me.
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Add me to "no problems with DA." And "Lots of problems with mcafee."
Absolutely do a malware scan - online, preferrably - and virus scan. I'm not subscribed to DA, so I see their ads - and they're always banners, usually DA related, and certainly not popups.
If you're going to take a link outside of DA, there's a warning page in between - you click the link, get a page that says "This goes somewhere else," and gives you a choice to either cancel or go on.
You've certainly got *something* going on on your system - and do note that Mcafee is well known, and often coded around by virus authors.
I just started looking at this site a few days ago.
Thus far, I've run into one site that generated an adobe security warning. Today, another page that generated runaway new tab generation in IE - that I could only stop by pulling the plug on my PC.
Any idea how prevalent this crap is, and if deviantart is something to stay away from? I like some of the art on the site, but not so much that I want to risk contamination of my PC....
131430 Starfare: First Contact
178774 Tales of Croatoa: A Rose By Any Other Name ( 2009 MA Best In-Canon Arc ) ( 2009 Player Awards - Best Serious Arc )