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I mentioned this before in another post; when
on Yahoo and reading a story, suddenly the page just went white. I didn't think to take a screenshot at the time. Something similar happened again but this time I did take a screenshot: http://i63.tinypic.com/2guwfir.jpg So what is this? A bad attempt at maleware? Robert |
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Mark Twain wrote:
I mentioned this before in another post; when on Yahoo and reading a story, suddenly the page just went white. I didn't think to take a screenshot at the time. Something similar happened again but this time I did take a screenshot: http://i63.tinypic.com/2guwfir.jpg So what is this? A bad attempt at maleware? Robert Phishing expedition attempting to get your personal info. When things like that pop up I use task mgr to kill the browser process. |
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Mark Twain wrote:
I mentioned this before in another post; when on Yahoo and reading a story, suddenly the page just went white. I didn't think to take a screenshot at the time. Something similar happened again but this time I did take a screenshot: http://i63.tinypic.com/2guwfir.jpg So what is this? A bad attempt at maleware? Robert That's called scareware, and the phone number leads to a "Technical Support Scam". They will ask for a credit card number, charge $200 to it and "pretend" to clean the computer of the virus. If you cannot dismiss the window using the corner of the window, and dialogs keep popping up, use the control-alt-delete (Task Manager). In there, locate the browser, like say Firefox, and kill the N copies you find. Modern Firefox is a multi process program, so more than one thing may need to be killed on Windows 7. The browsers that run on WinXP are less likely to be that generous with EXE entries and have fewer of them. Once the browser is killed, you can manually clean the cache and remove the files in it. When the browser starts, it will ask if you want to "restore last session". You do not! If you restore the last session, you'll get that scareware again. So you don't want the last session, and you do want to clean the cache. Firefox has a "clear data" function for cleaning, but sometimes I like to do this by hand. Just in case a javascript has found a way to stay alive in there. In any case, using Task Manager, you should be able to get in control of the computer again. While the "X" might not work on the Firefox window with the scareware in place, it's a little harder for them to escape from Task Manager and killing the process involved. Just don't "restore last session", OK ? :-) Cleaning is for when you have some idea where to look. C:\Users\User Name\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxxxxx xx.default\startupCache startupCache.8.little and five other files This covers rare cases where the .little is infected C:\Users\Bolt Upright\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxx xxxxx.default\cache2\entries many files with long names, delete The scareware javascript is likely to be one of the files in this folder. Restoring the session would pull a fresh copy from the Internet again... Control Panels : Flash Player : Advanced Tab : Delete all (you can tick both boxes if you want) That's a small start at cleaning Firefox. None of those should affect bookmarks. HTH, Paul |
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I just used my home page to get ride
of it which is about:blank but if that failed I would use Task Manger as Paul in Tx. Hmmmmmm, should I clean the cache anyway? Thanks, Robert |
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Mark Twain wrote:
I just used my home page to get ride of it which is about:blank but if that failed I would use Task Manger as Paul in Tx. Hmmmmmm, should I clean the cache anyway? Thanks, Robert Your choice. If it comes back, you can be more aggressive the second time. Paul |
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In message , Mark
Twain writes: I mentioned this before in another post; when on Yahoo and reading a story, suddenly the page just went white. I didn't think to take a screenshot at the time. Something similar happened again but this time I did take a screenshot: http://i63.tinypic.com/2guwfir.jpg So what is this? A bad attempt at maleware? Could be femaleware - much worse ... (ducks and runs) Robert -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf Gravity is a myth; the Earth sucks. |
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In message , Paul
writes: [] When the browser starts, it will ask if you want to "restore last session". You do not! If you restore the last session, you'll get that scareware again. So you don't want the last session, and you do want to clean the cache. [] Just don't "restore last session", OK ? :-) [] Firefox, at least (at least I assume it still does in the latest version - I use an old one), when presenting the "restore" option (which I think it does after two crashes), presents a ticklist of all the tabs you had open (initially pre-ticked); if you _know_ which one had the malware, you could try just unticking that one. Not that clearing the data probably isn't a good idea - but the above may let you save all the other tabs, if you want to. (I think the "save all tabs" function I have might be a function of the Tab Mix Plus add-on; I occasionally use it - usually using a bookmark folder with today's date - usually after I think I've recovered from something.) -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf Gravity is a myth; the Earth sucks. |
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I cleaned the cache.
Robert |
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Mark Twain wrote:
I cleaned the cache. Robert I like to ctrl-alt-del out of those situations instead of clicking the close X, etc, because I am sure what the close X or other buttons are programmed to do. For a while when W10 came out closing the beg screen via the X really meant to install W10. It made a lot of people quite angry. |
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I bet it did!
Robert |
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Mark Twain wrote:
I bet it did! Robert I accidentally left "NOT" out of my previous reply. I am NOT sure what the X does. |
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