Feral Heart

Quote from: Audioxi on April 22, 2017, 08:03:31 am

Alright so I ignored it for a little while but tbh starting to get tired of it

Every time I press the "Play Game" button and log in, it opens a new window, usually saying "You have a virus!", "Adults only game", "You have won ___!" and various other malicious scam or adware-style popups. I do run adblock, yet I still see these things.

I get these on literally NO other websites. I've run virus protection programs (three of them) including avast, malwarebytes and malwarebytes adware remover and got jack, so I'm almost 100% sure that I don't have a virus, and if I do, it's pretty well hidden and is VERY picky about the way it works, because I literally only get it here, and I only started getting them recently (I've been on Feralheart quite a number of years).

So, if this is some kind of ad thing that this website recently got that no one is regulating? Does anyone else get these popups JUST on that screen? Or do you think I might have a virus just burrowed deep into my computer somewhere?? Because if these are from the Feralheart website and not my own computer, I'm probably not gonna be very happy.

And, any way I could possibly get rid of them?

If your machine was indeed infected, that virus would do whatever the programmer of said virus had intended, and something tells me such a programmer would have more nefarious ideas than making you see annoying advertisements on an online game.
Since you have ran several scans with no hits, it seems possible to assume the advertisements aren't 'malicious', just annoying/spammy. Advertisement companies (if they are of any worth to their clients) will attempt to filter out adverts with malicious payloads. It's bad for their business. As long as it wasn't one of those ads that like, sends you a suspicous looking executable, it probably wasn't deemed dangerous by someone.

As for making them go away... Well, for whatever reason, I have yet to see any of these ads. My current setup is Chromium, (version 58.0.3029.19), Stands Fair-Adblock, and in addition, I block javascript on most websites (since it can be used to create said malicious payloads.). If you are paranoid as I am, I suggest something similar.

I have seen in (some) circumstances that clients can control the content of advertisements displayed, but of course, that portion is up to someone else to change, if it is possible with this company.

Oh no, it's happening to everyone. Some not as frequently as others, but it does happen. It's just something that has to be done and honestly the only thing you can stop it is with adblock's, but as you already stated it doesn't really work. May be hard to do and just frustrating to deal with, but just keep closing those tabs and try not to click on anything they open.

I'll be sure to check  back up on this as well, and if you do eventually fix it then yes I'd love to know! I think if you provide the answer to your fix if/when fixed, then it could be locked up and other users can look here if they ever have this issue.

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Update: I went ahead and got myself into the same situation in mapmaker to see what I could do. I went as far out as I could until I could no longer see the map, and I then clicked and dragged the pointer on the map in the top right corner and it sent me straight back to the map. If you can't see it, it's because you're looking forward. You just have to look down and you should be able to see your map and all that's on it.

Never mind, my thought/theory was wrong, it's just that I thought there would be some differences compared to a map I have on here already but they're pretty much the same other than map names. I thought, since I have no clue what LODMorphStart is, I thought it might have to do something in terms of camera spawn. I was wrong. Nevertheless, if you want, you could wrap up those map files (including your height and terrain files) into mediafire, and I could try and do something myself? See if I can rename things or even get it to work? That's if you feel you want to/can trust of course!

This sounds like it was stressful to deal with first hand... However, when you test, and you land in the corner, have you tried running to the center of your map? Once you've done that, try returning to the map making mode and see if that does return in the same position as the character did. If not, try again with the whole character to central map thing, and F3 THEN try going back to map making mode.