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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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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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I cleared the cache and ran a scan just to
make sure. Thanks, Robert |
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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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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/ -- With over 600 million devices now running Windows 10, customer satisfaction is higher than any previous version of windows. |
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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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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/ -- With over 600 million devices now running Windows 10, customer satisfaction is higher than any previous version of windows. |
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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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