Norton anti-virus caught a virus from totse when I visited a thread from my history. It didn't happen when I first viewed it either. It was a "browser exploit" called "MSIE ADODB.Stream Object File Installation Weakness"; said it was high risk. A Microsoft Office installation thing comes up that has to be cancelled. I have had similar attacks before on other sites but wtf? Some I can just press cancel a hundred times when the shit starts automatically, but this ones was caught before the install thing came up.

As far as I know, Totse doesn't have viruses. The advertisers might, though. In any case, if it was caught you probably weren't infected.

It's also possible you have a browser plugin that dynamically changes the pages in the history cache.

It's also possible you have a browser plugin that dynamically changes the pages in the history cache.

Is that bad? Why would it change my history? It lead me to the same page, it just gave a virus the second time.

Is that bad? Why would it change my history? It lead me to the same page, it just gave a virus the second time.

One reason I could think of is this: Assume you have an antivirus program that scans pages before you get to it. Now, if that program was coded for efficiency, it would "know" it didn't need to recheck pages you've already visited in the same session. If a program changed the actual HTML of the page after it was scanned, the virus scanner would totally miss it.

Then again, if the scanner had a browser plugin of its own, it'd detect the changes before it was rendered (hopefully).

I actually kinda doubt it was anything changing your history -- it was probably one of the advertisers.

I saw norton, stopped reading and thought of this picture:

http://i36.tinypic.com/2ia7gwk.jpg

Google chrome warned me against one of the advertising servers also.

Firefox (portable too!) Works like a charm. ABP is on as well

Totse is full of viruses man. Jeff Hunter is trying to get inside your brain.

This is so damn dumb....