I don't know if this is the right forum...if not, and someone could refer me somewhere else, I'd appreciate it.
I was on a website that was supposed to have a message board about the retro music videos that are posted on the site (the links to which all seem to be broken in the first place, so I didn't even stream any of the videos). I hadn't been to this site for months (though I guess there was one video link I had tried earlier in the day), and had never posted to the message board before or had any public profile of any sort. In fact, I don't have public profiles posted anywhere. Anyway, the link to the message board either wasn't what it claimed to be, or it had been highjacked...in any case, the link brought up XXX content. Much to my alarm, the page said something to the effect of "Find friends in your area", and specified the city where I live. I find this supremely disturbing, because I know I'd never supplied any profile information to this site...or any site for that matter, it's just not something that I ever do--because, I thought I was protecting myself from anyone that I didn't want having information about me getting it. Apparently they can anyway. I do occasionally make purchases online, that's the only time I can think of that I ever supply my address. But it's by and large only companies like Ebay and Amazon, or textbook dealers...and I never put information into a site that doesn't bring up the secure server icon in internet explorer. I ran every spyware and virus scan I have after the incident, and cleared everything in my history/TIFs/cookies, but I don't know if that addresses the problem, since I'm not sure what the problem is. I'm just really freaked out by this.
How the hell did this website get information on where I live And more importantly, is there anything I can do to prevent this from happening in the future
Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you.
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