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Amazon black Friday

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  • I jumped through the hoops to download the supposed fast clicking program. I scanned the resultant blackfridaygrabber.exe File using online virus scanner virustotal.com

    results show:
    McAfee-GW-Edition 2010.1C 2010.11.22 Heuristic.BehavesLike.Win32.ModifiedUPX.F!87

    which according to sophos website is a trojan virus

    BEWARE. WOULD ADVISE NOT TO RUN THE PROGRAM
  • mich_city
    mich_city Posts: 13,830 Forumite
    Meadows wrote: »
    But that wont be fast enough :(

    Seems like people that don't really want the item are just clicking on anything to add it to their basket only to discard later. Wish it was an instant buy now :D that would scupper a few people :rotfl:(especially if they had to buy an expensive item :eek:)

    if the price was shown beforehand most probably wouldn't bother clicking... you have to click or potentially miss out if the price is what you are willing to pay.. ;)
  • nettface
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    Hi all, a couple of quick questions -
    This game coming up soon - vanquish - is it any good? Was wanting to buy a PS3 game for my 15yr old brother - he's into war games like call of duty etc - so would Vanquish be ideal for him?

    Also, can you pay via paypal on Amazon? x
  • geewhiz
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    Also am cautious of the software, especially seeing as the youtube user has the word hacker in their username!

    Perhaps if somebody has an old PC laying around that they wouldn't mind taking a risk with?! Haha:money:

    I'm not that cautious so I dowloaded the file and checked it with Avira, it seems fine but there's an exe file and a pdf which links you through to another site where you have to go through a referral link, sign up, make the guy money etc etc before he even tells you how to run the program. I followed the links but didn't sign up as I'm not keen on having an external program running from an unknown person when I'm logging in to Amazon.

    It's a good idea though so I might get to work on my own app for doing this now !
  • Rev
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    I had my eye on a pair of earings for a gift. They were £22 last week, noticed last night they were in the black Friday sale, but not before they put the price up to £82.99.

    IMO Waste of time.
    Sigless
  • nettface wrote: »
    Hi all, a couple of quick questions -
    This game coming up soon - vanquish - is it any good? Was wanting to buy a PS3 game for my 15yr old brother - he's into war games like call of duty etc - so would Vanquish be ideal for him?

    Also, can you pay via paypal on Amazon? x

    check out ign's review, http://uk.ps3.ign.com/objects/142/14231560.html they've given a decent score, not really my kind of shooter but still.
  • geewhiz
    geewhiz Posts: 1,129 Forumite
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    nettface wrote: »
    Hi all, a couple of quick questions -
    This game coming up soon - vanquish - is it any good? Was wanting to buy a PS3 game for my 15yr old brother - he's into war games like call of duty etc - so would Vanquish be ideal for him?

    Also, can you pay via paypal on Amazon? x

    I've not played it but it does get decent reviews, here's one of them:

    http://uk.ps3.ign.com/articles/112/1128417p1.html

    And no, they don't take Paypal.
  • soolin
    soolin Posts: 74,205 Ambassador
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    nettface wrote: »
    Also, can you pay via paypal on Amazon? x

    Amazon have their own payment system and you pay automatically as soon as you confirm purchase at the end of the checkout process.
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  • NAR
    NAR Posts: 4,864 Forumite
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    What chances kindles going on offer this week?
  • Rev
    Rev Posts: 3,171 Forumite
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    NAR wrote: »
    What chances kindles going on offer this week?

    I'd go with 0% chance.

    Amazons best selling item sells for their asking price all day long. They've no reason to put it on offer.
    Sigless
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