A friendly reminder
By Sasha on Jun 16, 2011 in Blogging in general, Featured
This is a repost (071810) and one that is timely as I am planning to be active in Entrecard once again 
This is just a friendly reminder to all of us using Entrecard: not every site, especially those without proper widgets, is a good one. What I mean is that, you might find a site offering downloads and other free stuff. And because it’s in the Entrecard network, you’d think it’s legitimate. Don’t! It can be a site that will give you a big headache. Think of malware. You don’t want that in your computer, trust me.
You also don’t want to be dropping on sites that offers hacking advices. It could be the site that will hack your own site. I’ve encountered that and it gave me so much headache I swore off dropping for a while.
If you see any suspicious loading scripts from a site you are dropping on, better alert the owner of the blog right away and click on the X button as fast as you can. I got a hacking script from a popular blog I dropped on a couple of months ago. It hacked almost all my blogs I opened and I ended up creating new databases for each of my blogs that got hacked.
I am not saying that each and every site without proper widget images or the ones that seem to be aggregators only are illegal sites or something like that. All I am saying is be careful in dropping. That’s it.
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I am an accountant, a CPA. I'd been working for 10 years as a corporate rat when I decided to quit. I am now working at home as a consultant and full time blogger.
Isolated Existence | Jul 20, 2010 | Reply
Thanks for the reminder! I tend to drop on Blogs that have content but not a Blog with a bunch of ads that looks that it was put up in a hurry…
krisel | Jul 24, 2010 | Reply
i wasn’t aware of it before until i experienced it two weeks ago. I was doing my usual ec drop at the office when all of a sudden a small window pop up on my screen saying that they has detected a virus and asking me to install the antivirus to get rid of it, i canceled it then my browser started to go insane. good thing my pc doesn’t get harm. I just uninstall and reinstall the firefox and the malware is gone.
bonz | Jul 28, 2010 | Reply
thanks for sharing!
my hubby hates malwares, i’ll be careful next time.
btw, grabbed your badge, you can find it here…
http://www.littlezoiessteps.com/blogroll/blogroll-badges/
have a nice day!
Sasha | Aug 1, 2010 | Reply
Thank you so much, Bonz!