a warning for those who do surveys through Nexon for Nx
The Health Guru site links under Radium, the ones that offer 32 NX to view a page, are unsafe. The Health Guru website's been compromised. Twice now I've had the page redirect to a bogus malware scan page, which will attempt to install malware on your PC. The Health Guru site's had its ad banners compromised, I'd suggest avoiding them to be safe. The 200 or so NX a day you may get for viewing those pages isn't worth the risk. If you are on one of their pages and get this redirected popup, close your browser totally, restart and clear your cache. Run virus scans to make sure nothing was installed.
October 8, 2012
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Thankfully this bit of malware seems to be the type "download and then install" masquerading as anti-malware, so nothing auto-downloaded(I had one a couple months back do this, auto-downloaded and infected through browser cache, was a nightmare to clean out). Scans with MSSE, Malwarebytes and Spybot found nothing. So I didn't get infected, but still I'm avoiding the Health Guru offers because of far too much risk and I'd suggest everyone else do so as well. 32 NX a page isn't worth potential malware infection that could be impossible to clean.
Though if you ask me, the whole Health Guru site is fishy... their embedded flash ads and flash players seem to do a nice enough job straining Firefox and making it so slow and unresponsive I can barely use it. If I could do surveys with ABP enabled I would.
as well as many other surveys because they all open a new tab that leads you to a different website...
I find that peanut lab has the most chance of working for me
Thank you for your warning! Though I don't do the surveys, this is a great warning to those who do!