advert prior to download

[synnefa-kyria]

I wanted to make this known --

 

During the advert before I was able to download Forge, there was this advert that popped up and said my download was ready. Thinking it was the download for Forge, I clicked it and this malware went and installed itself without my consent. It's called Relevant Knowledge, calling itself marketing/consumer information collection, it collects your personal information, and is constantly running in the background -- it's been two days, and I still cannot get rid of it. McAfee cannot take care of it, because it is running somewhere. I cannot delete it because of that either. 

 

There's a second program that installed itselt too -- webdiscover browser. You end up with a chrome like thing across the top of your screen to act as another browser, and any other browser you open runs through that. It also changed my chrome start page and default search engine. Thankfully, I was able to delete it. 

 

Forge, I hope you'll take care of that advert, considering that you are advertising for malware. 

Edited December 4, 2017 by synnefa-kyria
previous title misleading

[synnefa-kyria]

I didn't know where else to put this sort of thing, other than "support and bugs"

[LexManos]

If you can take a screenshot of the advert including the address bar I can go directly to our advertisers and have it removed. This stuff should not be making it through and we take it seriously.