I did a HIT by Mturk Group recently, only to later find that TO ratings claim the HIT I did is a virus. For more details, refer to the posts on the page here: http://mturkforum.com/showthread.php?2716-Try-these-hits&p=27448#post27447 My biggest concern is whether this virus will give the requester my mturk information and if they can potentially steal my earnings. I always have Adblock and AVG on and ready, and am using the Chromium browser (though that doesn't matter much), could this requester steal money from my Amazon Payments account?
I don't think you've to worry, since the HIT didn't make use of java applets, and you had your anti virus ON!!!
This is reassuring though I'm not sure whether they could have somehow bypassed the filtering. Now, the bigger concern is the fact that, in attempt to keep her money safe, my girlfriend was consensual in trying to withdraw her 250$ through my bank. However, this broke the participation agreement so we quickly retracted the action of adding my bank account to her Amazon Payments by deleting it from her banks. It was in step 1 of the verification stage, two minimal deposits were to arrive in 5-7 business days. I really hope that in deleting this bank account (which was only on her Payments account for 2 hours, 11:30 ish to 1:30 pst) resolved all issues, leaving us safe. Here is the thread: http://mturkforum.com/showthread.php?3637-Banking-Question Theoretically, Amazon has the ability to close her payment account and probably mine too since we did this. My girlfriend has contacted amazon about the action twice however, once before adding my bank and once after removing it. We're such fools. That's what fear does I guess.
Damn.. you could have possibly put your account in jeopardy doing that. I hope it does not come to fruition. Much luck.
Was it spyware or just a virus? There are different types of Malware that do different things. If it's spyware then you should be worried that they'll steal your info, because it can copy your keystrokes and whatnot. Viruses usually just overcrowd your computer (excessive popups, and added files and programs etc) and attempt to kill your computer. Think of a flu that's not being treated and it gets worse as days go by. If you fear that there's a virus on your computer use your avg virus protector to scan for them. If you're still not sure download Malwarebytes. (This is okay to be on with your AVG) Has your computer been acting strange? If not then you're fine. Just be careful. Also, empty your temporary files. Sometimes virus can hang out there, but most of the time they are in your program files, or even in the task manager process. I wish you good luck.
They'd have to be heartlessly unreasonable for not understanding the situation. I think we will be fine - we have been so far. My girlfriend got a response which inside clarified we may not share a bank account so we will not. I'm thinking that only if we actually attempted to make a withdraw into the same account we'd get busted (and rightfully so), but we caught ourselves before making that mistake.