Be careful! Found these on the web, but...

[Mu'min]

While looking for new info on civ 5 on the web i found these sites:

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but i haven't got the guts to try and download them, don't know if they are real or just some gimmic to get people to download something that takes over your computer or steals your bank account details, which, lets face it, sadly is probably true.

Maybe some one at firaxis can comfirm if there is a demo or not?

 

[cspyr0]

but i haven't got the guts to try and download them, don't know if they are real or just some gimmic to get people to download something that takes over your computer or steals your bank account details, which, lets face it, sadly is probably true.

C'mon man, if there were a demo it would be official and on their webpage. It wouldn't look shady as hell like this. So yeah, don't download it.

 

[Herrhals]

why would you even consider even looking at this?!?!
IF it's not posted on CIVFAN, it doesn't exist. Besides, don't you think there'd be a BILLLION topics about it?!

 

[Ahriman]

Mmmm... viruses and spyware. Delicious.

 

[bonafide11]

Yeah, those are surely viruses and spyware. Unless it's an official demo released by Firaxis, it's just a virus.

 

[Kissamies]

It's obvious from just those generic sounding taglines that they're anything but they claims to be. Probably generated by some bot.

 

[Dale]

Download them, and join the bot spam farm.

 

[Thormodr]

So who's going to sacrifice their computer like a catapult and find out what they are all about?

 

[Dale]

Well I'm at work right now, and we've got about 85 PC's running. I could try it on all of the them, just to be sure.

Oh hang on, I'm the IT guy. I'd have to reinstall them all if these downloads aren't the Civ5 demo.

Bah, who'd upload a spam-bot trojan and call it the Civ5 demo? I trust them.

 

[Grawss]

Well I'm at work right now, and we've got about 85 PC's running. I could try it on all of the them, just to be sure.

Oh hang on, I'm the IT guy. I'd have to reinstall them all if these downloads aren't the Civ5 demo.

Bah, who'd upload a spam-bot trojan and call it the Civ5 demo? I trust them.

Montezuma would.

He'd use the oldest virus possible and try to brute force his way in.

 

[CornPlanter]

I dont think any testing is needed here. Just having common sense is enough

 

[Thormodr]

I dont think any testing is needed here. Just having common sense is enough

Well of course it was a joke. If I had an old beater third computer I'd do it.

 

[Ginger_Ale]

Moderator Action: If/when an official demo comes out, we will make people aware of that.

Until then, stay away from such suspect sites.
Please read the forum rules: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=422889