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If there was any evidence that Gaia has sold it's soul to a desire for free cash for itself at the expense of it's members, this is it. The Gee Boi Turbo, nerfing the Fishtanks, and now openly condoning active SCAM OFFERS, trying to bribe it's loyal memberbase with insane amounts of Gaia Cash. All for the paltry sum of giving away your credit card information, your home address, your phone number, your car insurance, the deed to your home, and your soul. Oh, and your wallet photo of little Margaret too.

I wonder if you decided to check any of the download-required offers for viruses? Well I had a gander. Here's a list-off for you of what I've found so far:

ShopAtHome Toolbar
Worth: 175 Gaia Cash
Contained: ShopAtHome Toolbar, Troj_dmsetup.d

Yes, that was a Trojan. Already had my scanners up and running before I opened it.

Next up...

Webfetti Toolbar
Worth: 219 Gaia Cash
Contained: Webfetti Toolbar, Waledac

A SPAMBOT, ladies and gents. Merry Christmas to you too Gaia.

CursorMania
Worth: 158 Gaia Cash
Contained: CursorMania, Trojan.Win32.Agent2.dtb, Trojan.Win32.Agent.azsy

Two for the price of one. Enjoy.

I still haven't checked the other downloads, but let's play by example now, shall we?

Shame on you Gaia. Lovely job of protecting your memberbase.

Update:

Did some more digging, found these:

Free Dingbat Smileys
Worth: 228 Gaia Cash
Contained: Backdoor.Win32.Agent.abgg

Another b*****d child of Conficker.

Mobile: IQ Quiz
Worth: 919 Gaia Cash
Contained: Email-Worm.Win32.Merond.a

This virus was meant for computers, and it's in a mobile phone offer. It's known for frying computers - don't let it on your phone.

Update 2:

I've said this to Panagrammic via PM, but I'll add it here: My virus software is a personally programmed software, an amalgamation of multiple virus protectors, malware halters, virus combatant software, and identifiers. It's not something available on the market - my best suggestion for the people who want the most defense is to use programs like BitDefender, Webroot, and G DATA in unison - always use more than one virus software at once, because what one program doesn't catch another may. This is most applicable to those of us with Windows PC's - most of these are the most deadly to those computers.

I use a Mac myself.