OldIHC

Is the thing you click to clean for the anti virus program you installed/normally use??? If not you had better do a deep scan of you computer.

I had the same thing happen last week when I tried to open a link to a thread on this site and first i was redirected to a different web page/URL. Next a smaller window opened and was doing a "scan" which of course found malware. Since it was not for any of the programs I installed and use,I knew it was bogus and if I clicked the clean button it would install some kind of malware. I also knew from experience not to click the cancel button, I instead clicked the little red box with the X in it to close the window. I then got a do you want to leave page window,I took a chance and clicked leave and luckily all the windows closed at which time my anti virus program alarm went off,the pop up said it just stopped a serious threat.

What I should have done it just press the off button and turned my computer off when the bogus scan appeared,that is likely to totally stop the process. Then do a scan after rebooting.

These b#*tards are getting better at disguising their BS every day,whether it's something to screw up your system for no real reason or to install things like keyloggers to steal info. Be careful on the sites you visit or "trust".

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i run MS security essentials and the pay version of malware bytes; i've not seen the sights and things seem to be going well for me computer wise…

john

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