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Java update scam on RCF?

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Nathan S

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Starting about half an hour ago, when I load RCF I am greeted by:

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Clicking the x leads to the following highly suspicious website:

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Which (after clicking "prevent this page from creating additional dialogues" and then the x) attempts to download the following file:

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Is anyone else having this problem?
 
OK I'm not the only one then. Getting this too, on Firefox. Not getting it on Chrome. I have gotten it on here a few times in the past few days, but this time it comes up every time I log on using Firefox this evening.
 
I've removed ads to see if that's the cause. Let me know.
 
I had it when using Chrome. Same exact message and download attempt. (which failed)
I switched to rarely-used IE, and had no trouble at all.
Now Chrome is again working fine, so fixing those ads must have nailed it.
 
They stopped for me, Ben, in both Chrome and Firefox.
 

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