Malware warning from this site

[dingy]

Last night after reading the following post,

 

http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?threadid=44565

 

I clicked on the link in Black Owl's reply to a smiley icon web site.

 

I know I shouldn't have.

 

The following happened afterwords.

 

My default search engine was replaced.

 

Avast automatic update failed.

 

Home page reassigned.

 

I then ran Malwarebytes software and it located 295 instances of malware. 99% of these were tied to the now default search engine.

 

I had just ran this malwarebytes software about 5 days earlier and it had then detected 17 various ad ware problems. This was at that point the first I had ran it in several months.

 

I looked at Black Owl's posts and this link has only started showing up since the 17th of January 2010.

 

Gary