You have a problem, scanning for viruses NOW !!!!!
You have a problem, scanning for viruses NOW !!!!!
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ribenavrs

Original Poster:

555 posts

225 months

Wednesday 4th August 2010
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Just had this while browsing, nothing else open, all anti-virus stuff up to date

Tried to close it and it started another

Shut IE down and popped back on PH, all seems OK, was it from here ????

I'm not particularly IT geeky and it scared me a little, visions of my nice new laptop vanishing in a puff of smoke frown

Laurel Green

31,123 posts

261 months

Wednesday 4th August 2010
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I had the same thing happen to me this morning. I closed down IE8 and did a malware & virus scan but didn't pick anything up - strange, but all is OK now (touches wood).

NiceCupOfTea

25,586 posts

280 months

Wednesday 4th August 2010
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Sounds like malware - stuff that pretends it's fixing viruses while charging you and doing who knows what.

Download and run malwarebytes antimalware.

Laurel Green

31,123 posts

261 months

Wednesday 4th August 2010
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Yup! I scanned with Malwarebytes and nothing found. Strange. I seem to remember this happening a few months ago and, the outcome was the same - no problems. smile

Pied Piper

1,388 posts

276 months

Thursday 5th August 2010
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Have just had the same, classifieds has been playing up all day as well.

Mr Will

13,719 posts

235 months

Thursday 5th August 2010
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Pied Piper said:
Have just had the same, classifieds has been playing up all day as well.
We had some problems with the classifieds but these are entirely unrelated to anything which is going on here.

If any of you see the pop up again can you post a screenshot so I can try and help you narrow down where it is coming from?

Flanders.

6,439 posts

237 months

Wednesday 11th August 2010
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I had the same thing, I didn't think to take a screen shot though. I also found a dodgy File on my Laptop.

Biker's Nemesis

41,410 posts

237 months

Friday 13th August 2010
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I keep getting this at the top of the page.




An error occurred while processing your request.
Reference #97.356cc8d5.1281731056.34493b63

Mr Will

13,719 posts

235 months

Monday 16th August 2010
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Biker's Nemesis said:
I keep getting this at the top of the page.




An error occurred while processing your request.
Reference #97.356cc8d5.1281731056.34493b63
That's unrelated to the problems being discussed on this thread, and is simply occuring when the advert at the top fails to load.

Scraggles

7,619 posts

253 months

Monday 16th August 2010
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worth getting a free account with www.opendns.com and block the adware / malware sites, have been to a few sites that used to use, only to find they no longer owned by same people and are used for drive by downloads frown