deborahbroadus
HARD CANDY
Thanks! I did wonder why they used Fauna's name, this is my first time having a spammer from FAUNA.
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Posted 12/19/2024.
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I am still waiting on my developer to finish up on the Classifieds Control Panel so I can use it to encourage members into becoming paying members. Google Adsense has become a real burden on the viewing of this site, but honestly it is the ONLY source of income now that keeps it afloat. I tried offering disabling the ads being viewed by paying members, but apparently that is not enough incentive. Quite frankly, Google Adsense has dropped down to where it barely brings in enough daily to match even a single paid member per day. But it still gets the bills paid. But at what cost?
So even without the classifieds control panel being complete, I believe I am going to have to disable those Google ads completely and likely disable some options here that have been free since going to the new platform. Like classified ad bumping, member name changes, and anything else I can use to encourage this site to be supported by the members instead of the Google Adsense ads.
But there is risk involved. I will not pay out of pocket for very long during this last ditch experimental effort. If I find that the membership does not want to support this site with memberships, then I cannot support your being able to post your classified ads here for free. No, I am not intending to start charging for your posting ads here. I will just shut the site down and that will be it. I will be done with FaunaClassifieds. I certainly don't need this, and can live the rest of my life just fine without it. If I see that no one else really wants it to survive neither, then so be it. It goes away and you all can just go elsewhere to advertise your animals and merchandise.
Not sure when this will take place, and I don't intend to give any further warning concerning the disabling of the Google Adsense. Just as there probably won't be any warning if I decide to close down this site. You will just come here and there will be some sort of message that the site is gone, and you have a nice day.
I have been trying to make a go of this site for a very long time. And quite frankly, I am just tired of trying. I had hoped that enough people would be willing to help me help you all have a free outlet to offer your stuff for sale. But every year I see less and less people coming to this site, much less supporting it financially. That is fine. I tried. I retired the SerpenCo business about 14 years ago, so retiring out of this business completely is not that big if a step for me, nor will it be especially painful to do. When I was in Thailand, I did not check in here for three weeks. I didn't miss it even a little bit. So if you all want it to remain, it will be in your hands. I really don't care either way.
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Some people have indicated that finding the method to contribute is rather difficult. And I have to admit, that it is not all that obvious. So to help, here is a thread to help as a quide. How to become a contributing member of FaunaClassifieds.
And for the record, I will be shutting down the Google Adsense ads on January 1, 2025.
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Responding to email notices you receive.
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In short, DON'T! Email notices are to ONLY alert you of a reply to your private message or your ad on this site. Replying to the email just wastes your time as it goes NOWHERE, and probably pisses off the person you thought you replied to when they think you just ignored them. So instead of complaining to me about your messages not being replied to from this site via email, please READ that email notice that plainly states what you need to do in order to reply to who you are trying to converse with.
Malware/Privacy Intrusion Virus in P.M.'s?!?!
- Thread starter scarnicom
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Thanks! I did wonder why they used Fauna's name, this is my first time having a spammer from FAUNA.
rpeteroy
Member
scam
Hello All, I would just like to add that I also got this scam and it did come through this site as i dont visit many others except forums and classifieds. There is an easy way to get rid of it though. If it is the windows 7 one pictured on page one you can simply go into the task manager and shut down the process running the scam which will allow you to safely remove it. The process is mixed letters something like fgadefgoieu.exe, you can look at the creator of that file all the way to the right and you will see healthcare something (sorry was more then a week ago so I forgot a little) If the process is not shut down then it will block all your attempts to remove it. Also try to open as few programs as possible while fighting this scam. This scam attaches itself to the programs that you open while infected causing that program to say it is infected also. Good luck to those affected by this situation.
Ron
Hello All, I would just like to add that I also got this scam and it did come through this site as i dont visit many others except forums and classifieds. There is an easy way to get rid of it though. If it is the windows 7 one pictured on page one you can simply go into the task manager and shut down the process running the scam which will allow you to safely remove it. The process is mixed letters something like fgadefgoieu.exe, you can look at the creator of that file all the way to the right and you will see healthcare something (sorry was more then a week ago so I forgot a little) If the process is not shut down then it will block all your attempts to remove it. Also try to open as few programs as possible while fighting this scam. This scam attaches itself to the programs that you open while infected causing that program to say it is infected also. Good luck to those affected by this situation.
Ron
while browsing via work pc which has great protection, I get the 'this pop up was blocked' message and then today, I was looking at an ad, clicked 'new posts' and was taken to this page (screenshot attached; website - iegallery dot com) - so then I went 'back', tried the same action again and it worked like it should. Something strange is afoot at the circle K. I should have made note of what ad was up on the classified I was looking at but didn't think of it.
Not sure if it's related but could be...
Not sure if it's related but could be...
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pythonpaintjobs
New member
I had this exact same thing.....took the puter to office depot and $139 later it was fixed.....and added an antivirus program for the future.
Chris, find a local guru! I usually charge between $25 to $45 to clean virus, update every thing, clean inside pc and add antivirus. If real bad and need to back up files and re install, update and all around $75.00 to $90.00
I too, have been getting insane amounts of popup windows, but I haven't been clicking ads. Mostly while browsing here, eBay, Amazon, etc. rather annoying, but they're not malicious as far as I can tell.
Seems that most of my popups (blocked, of course) happen when I am browsing Google doing searched. Any link to a site called "boardreader" invariably triggers a blocked popup.
I too had my work computer infested twice in a week. I havent been on fauna in a while but the first time i happened was probably the week of the 20th and then yesterday it happened again. I called the IT people we use at work both times and they remoted in and fixed it twice. This thread was brought to my attention so I wanted to put it out there. I didnt have any issues until i visited fauna (there are only 3 websites i visit daily at work) and it only happened when i visited. I didnt PM or do anything but browse the threads and look at some profiles of people I know... nothing more... hopefully my personal computer does not become infected with the issue.
If such things happen again, and it's possible to do so, please take a look around as to what is being displayed on your browser at the time you feel the problem has been initiated on your system. Make note of which ads are being displayed in both the Google ads, and the ones that are being provided from FaunaAds.com.
Since any sort of executable code has been disabled within post on this site itself, it's not likely that the problem actually stems from within the posts and threads you are reading.
Since any sort of executable code has been disabled within post on this site itself, it's not likely that the problem actually stems from within the posts and threads you are reading.
Don't know if this will make a difference, but since the day I posted those two that I got, I haven't had any more little notifications.
I too got hit with this, while I was browsing the General Discussion forums. I let my computer sit off for about 2a week and a half, then I turned it back on and ran my antivirus right way, (after turning off my wifi to my computer, and shutting off all my running programs), and it found the virus, 2 of them actually, and then deleted them off my computer. I have my antivirus running in the background more often now. But I was scared to come back to this website until I got things set. I hope that I don't encounter another "google ads based" virus again. It sucked not having my computer for that long. lol
Unfortunately Brandi it's hitting places like Msn and Espn also.
I just got it on my pc but caught it immediately and got rid of it. This time it infected java 6 folder.
I keep combofix.exe on my pc in a folder on desktop. Since these particular attacks shut down known protection I renamed it to JColt.exe and bypass a lot of problems. I have an ssd so it fixes it in like 5 min's.
I just got it on my pc but caught it immediately and got rid of it. This time it infected java 6 folder.
I keep combofix.exe on my pc in a folder on desktop. Since these particular attacks shut down known protection I renamed it to JColt.exe and bypass a lot of problems. I have an ssd so it fixes it in like 5 min's.
I'm not sure if it's related, and I will get more info when I get home, but the last two times I was on here, this weird PDF error would pop up and it wouldn't allow me to close it and would freeze when I opened task manager to cancel it. After a reboot, there wasn't a problem, until it happened again with the same results.