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Old April 29th 18, 04:41 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Mark Twain
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While checking the news I clicked an ad
by mistake and got a warning that a site
had been blocked by Avast. Then I got this
later on:

http://i63.tinypic.com/5etipy.jpg

I checked my security settings:

http://i64.tinypic.com/2zhldh3.jpg


Should I be concerned?

Robert
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Old April 29th 18, 05:22 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Paul[_32_]
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Mark Twain wrote:
While checking the news I clicked an ad
by mistake and got a warning that a site
had been blocked by Avast. Then I got this
later on:

http://i63.tinypic.com/5etipy.jpg

I checked my security settings:

http://i64.tinypic.com/2zhldh3.jpg


Should I be concerned?

Robert


The first picture is "scareware" written in poor English.
That's how you tell what kind of people are involved.
Nobody seems to be able to get an English speaker to
review their "innovative" advertising scares.

The red color tells you it's scareware. Your AV shouldn't
pull tricks like that to scare you. A regular sized dialog
box is plenty scary enough, without the color scheme.

*******

You should check your Adobe Flash and make sure it's
up to date.

Adobe Flash is normally set to auto-update itself.
Check the version in the small box on the upper right,
against the version table below.

http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/about/

If for some reason, Adobe Flash had stopped receiving updates,
these are the links I used on April 22, 2018. The first one
is for Firefox or SeaMonkey, otherwise known as the NPAPI plugin.

http://fpdownload.adobe.com/get/flas...ash_player.exe

This download is for "Chrome look-alikes" such as SRWare Iron.
This is the PPAPI plugin. The actual Google Chrome browser,
downloads its own private PPAPI plugin, and doesn't use this.
You are unlikely to need this one. The Firefox one though, above,
is more likely to help.

https://fpdownload.adobe.com/get/fla...ayer_ppapi.exe

I noticed a couple of incidents just before April 22, where
I suspected my Flash was letting garbage in. And so I updated
it. And that has stopped.

And don't click on stuff, OK ? :-)

You will want to clean out the cache on whatever
browser you did that on. I like to search on "cache"
or "_cache" to see if the cache is actually clean. I think
Firefox cleans up pretty well. SeaMonkey on the other
hand, does not, and you clean that one manually.

If you don't clean the cache, the red screen can come back
when Firefox gets in a rush to "restore the session". So
when you're exited from Firefox, you clean out the cache
folder.

And I've tried scanning the cache files, and scanning
uncovers nothing. Which suggests when a file in the
cache is loaded, it "reaches out" and gets infected
code to put the red screen back.

Sometimes the in-browser "cleaning" menu is compromised,
or the file in the cache has a way of blocking cleanup,
and that's one reason I like to verify visually that
I've cleaned it out.

I didn't get your red screen, but I did have some more
serious symptoms (computer would not shut down on command,
Task Manager was clear). I restored from a backup for that
one, and didn't take chances.

Paul
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Old April 29th 18, 06:35 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Mark Twain
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I cleared the cache and ran a scan just to
make sure.

Thanks,
Robert
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Old April 29th 18, 07:16 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Paul in Houston TX[_2_]
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Mark Twain wrote:
While checking the news I clicked an ad
by mistake and got a warning that a site
had been blocked by Avast. Then I got this
later on:

http://i63.tinypic.com/5etipy.jpg

I checked my security settings:

http://i64.tinypic.com/2zhldh3.jpg


Should I be concerned?

Robert


It's fake. I usually kill the browser process (ctrl-alt-del) when running into those.
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Old April 29th 18, 08:07 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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On 29/04/2018 19:16, Paul in Houston TX wrote:

I usually kill the browser process (ctrl-alt-del) when running into
those.


You also need to check whether something has been set to launch at
start-up and also whether there are any other processes still running
that should not be there in the first place.

These pop-ups are started by some processes that could do other untold
damages to your computer.

/--- This email has been checked for viruses by
Windows Defender software.
//https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/comprehensive-security/



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Old April 29th 18, 08:34 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Paul in Houston TX[_2_]
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Boris wrote:
Paul wrote in news
Mark Twain wrote:

(snip)

I was quite interested in this thread because I've occasionally had the
same/similar problem,even when clicking on links that seem to be innocent,
and 'reported' as safe.

I think I caught the problem when using a youtube to audio/video online
converter, h2converter.com, which worked fine for months, but then started
to throw scareware at me, along with links to Asian girls that wanted to
date me, sight unseen. They must be hard up. But no, I didn't click on the
girlie links. This happened regardless of browser, Firefox or IE, both
updated, on my Win7 HP x64 machine.


IMO, those online converters are only good for a few weeks before
they either get hacked or the owner sells out to the ad companies.
Look for new ones when the old one goes to the dark side.


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Old April 29th 18, 08:38 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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On 29/04/2018 20:28, Boris wrote:


along with links to Asian girls that wanted to
date me, sight unseen. They must be hard up.


Lucky you. They thought you are loaded with gold so they are interested
in you not your wealth!!!!!!!!!

Did you tell them you are in your eighties? They always look for old
man knowing that they won't be around for long so they can take your
wealth. Look at Melania Trump? She is much younger than the POTUS but
still she finds him very attractive.


/--- This email has been checked for viruses by
Windows Defender software.
//https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/comprehensive-security/



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satisfaction is higher than any previous version of windows.

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Old April 30th 18, 01:38 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Mark Twain
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I've already re-started my computer with no
problems so far but how do I check to see if
something is set to launch at start-up or
processes that shouldn't be there? I'm not
familiar with the processes that should be
running.

Robert
 




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